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Solar energy and storage are the fastest, cheapest ways to add electricity to the grid. So why are small towns across the US pausing or banning these projects? Clean energy entrepreneur Jon Powers shows how fossil fuel companies are waging disinformation campaigns at the local le ...  Show more

Many people fear AI is eroding our humanity, replacing real relationships with synthetic ones that leave us lonelier than ever. Digital anthropologist Jennifer Cearns believes the opposite may be true. After talking to hundreds of people who turn to AI for grief, love, friendship ...  Show more

Sponge cities use natural features to slow down, soak up and reuse flood water. Yu Kongjian nearly drowned as a boy when his village flooded, but it inspired him to come up with the sponge city concept. It’s now being rolled out across China. In Singapore too, parks and lakes are ...  Show more

Partout dans le monde, de nombreuses villes subissent des inondations importantes et certaines ont décidé de repenser leur urbanisme en conséquence.Traduction :Around the world many cities are experiencing significant flooding and some have decided to rethink urban planning as a ...  Show more

Dr. Elizabeth Fassman-Beck discusses how our aging stormwater infrastructure threatens access to clean water. This talk was filmed at TEDxStevensInstituteofTechnology. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas worth spreadin ...  Show more