21st Century Challenge: Retrofitting Suburbia (video)
In a TED talk on the subject of how to do the hard work of really greening the economy, architect Ellen Dunham-Jones explains why “The big design and development project of the next 50 years is going...
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Solar Impulse: Close to 1st Night Flight of Solar-only Plane (video)
Solar Impulse, a revolutionary aerospace engineering project based in Switzerland, is closing in on the technological readiness to stage the world’s first ever night-time flight of a zero-fuel,...
View ArticleHow to Build the National Clean Energy Smart Grid (video)
Bracken Hendricks, from the Center for American Progress, discusses the national project to build a clean-electricity “smart grid” for the United States. The first component is “a large-scale,...
View ArticleSolar Impulse Achieves First Ever 24-hour Solar Flight
Switzerland-based Solar Impulse has achieved the first-ever 24-hour solar-powered flight, flying both night and day on solar power alone. World Radio Switzerland reported “History is Made: Solar Plane...
View ArticleWaste from Energy Consumption Chief Impediment to Human Development (video)
Professor Paul Ehrlich —of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences— says waste generated by human consumption of energy and industrial processes is...
View ArticleCarl Safina: Biological Effects of BP Spill are Hemispheric (video)
Carl Safina’s detailed TED talk on the fate of the Gulf of Mexico explores some of the unseen victims and impacts of the BP oil spill. He demonstrates how dispersants have made the spreading oil slick...
View ArticleShai Agassi Says China is Electric Vehicle 'Tipping Point'
Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur behind Better Place, a global enterprise seeking to build a network of electric battery switch-out stations, says China is the new frontier for electric vehicles, and its...
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Beyond Sustainability: A Deep Green Future
What do we mean when we talk about sustainability? Do we mean forging, after thousands of years of civilization, at last, a truly sustainable relationship with nature? Do we mean “net-zero” resource...
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Moving Minds with Citizen-Centered Non-partisan Discourse
Citizens Climate Lobby is an international non-partisan, non-profit volunteer organization, working to build political will for a livable world. To do that, they aim to find an ideologically neutral,...
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Wind is Top Power Source in Spain
Since November 1, 2012, Spain has generated more electricity from wind energy than by any other means. In January, 2013, the nation generated more than 6 teraWatt hours (tWh) of power from wind...
View ArticleGeoversiv Envisioning: a Clean Future of Global Abundance
Geoversiv Envisioning is a project, a concept, a way of moving ideas forward, so that vital solutions to major problems can be brought about more quickly. The logic is: we trace the arc of discovery...
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Free Our Energy Markets
Climate change is a market failure—the most costly in world history. The failure of so-called “free markets” to accurately express the cost of carbon-emitting fuels in consumer prices has led to the...
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