An action plan for solving the climate crisis...

Does the fix for a fragmented world begin with a shared bookshelf? Photographer Rebecca Toh traces how she joined with 180 other people to build a community-funded library where strangers rent shelves, fill them with their personal collections and forge something rare: real conne ...  Afficher plus

By 2030, nearly half the world's young people will be African. Yet for decades, the continent's learning crisis was treated with systems unfit for reality on the ground. Social entrepreneur Rapelang Rabana shows how homegrown leadership and technology designed for African classro ...  Afficher plus

"How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it's cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?" asks engineer and investor John Doerr. In conversation with Countdown cofounder Lindsay Levin, Doerr and systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram lay out six big object ...  Afficher plus

“Go for the megatons.” That’s John Doerr’s recommendation for how we need to combat the existential threat of climate change. Doerr, a venture capitalist and author of the new book Speed and Scale, joins host Bob Safian to discuss our decarbonization efforts, what he calls “the g ...  Afficher plus

As the environmental future of our planet reaches a critical point, Dr. Andrew Steer suggests the need for disruptive and systemic change. This talk was filmed at TEDxFoggyBottom. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas wo ...  Afficher plus

Host Ronald Young Jr. speaks with Bill McKibben about how to break our destructive climate habits and about why we need a course correction urgently. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org.Check out the links below for his suggestions ab ...  Afficher plus