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KUNM discussion re urban gardening with Christiana Capelle and Willem Malten, Ecoversity creative director... (download podcast)
Santa Fe Free Press 1/22/09
"A Hands on Campus" (pdf)
Santa Fe New Mexican 11/28/08
"A New Energy Frontier"
KSFR: Diego Mulligan Interviews
- March 24 2009: Diego interviews Andrew Fikiforuk, author of Tar Sands
-Interview with Ecoversity's RP Harbour and Willem Malten, 12/30/08 (mp3)
-Interview with Alphonz Viszolay 12/16/08 (mp3)
Google Earth
Download Google Earth and explore our planet and biosphere like never before!
Home - the Movie
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, celebrated French journalist, photographer and environmentalist, has created an extraordinarily beautiful film of our home planet, and the impacts our species has made upon it's life systems. "Home" can be seen in high quality full screen mode here.
E.O. Wilson Interview
NYTimes' David Pogue interviewed E.O.Wilson at length about
the Encyclopedia of Life during the production of a CBS feature on the project; here is the complete interview transcript: Pogue/Wilson
New EOL Newsletter
Encyclopedia of Life has just issued their fourth newsletter with info on status and upcoming plans... Download PDF
$50 Billion Would Save the Rest of Life
"Seems like a bargain"- E.O. Wilson
(view LinkTV interview)
And here is TED prize curator Chris Anderson interviewed on Charlie Rose
The Superorganism
The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
E.O.Wilson, Bert Holldobler
Green Map: Tools for Open Source Mapping of Environmental Data
Download free endangered species ringtones from the Center for Biological Diversity
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Isabella Rosselini: GreenPorn 3
Sundance hosts the third season of Isabella Rosselini's surprising and amusing series on creature sex. "GreenPorn 3" can be viewed online HERE
TED Conference videos:
A Greener Future
Inspired by Nature
Animals That Amaze
Evolution's Genius
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TED curator Chris Anderson interviewed on Charlie Rose
OurEarth.org has assembled a database of degree programs offered around the US in Earth studies and the Environmental sciences: (directory)
Clean Tech Recruits
500 clean-tech job postings daily (site)
Environmental Jobs Worldwide
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The Buzz on Bees
Scientific American: a special area in current April issue with a dozen new articles on the life, death, and consciousness of bees. (SciAm/Bees)
The Story of Stuff
Don't miss this amusing survey of the consumerist reality and it's toxic consquences. (99% of our production is trashed within 6 months!)
Do You Know What You Eat?
Drug-laced corn flakes for breakfast? Taco shells infused with detergent enzymes for dinner? Take the short quiz provided by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Wild Horses of Newbury
Greens were filming the tragic destruction of two great old oaks of Newbury, when an amazing thing happened... watch the video
Vendana Shiva, Max Keiser, and Joachim Von Braun on the looming food supply crisis- (part one /
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Meatrix: The Saga Continues
The award-winning classic "Meatrix" is just as good now as it was when it first appeared on the web a few years ago. Since then we have "Meatrix 2: Revolting", and "Meatrix 2 1/2", where our heroes save Moopheus from a factory slaughterhouse... keep up with the saga at The Meatrix.
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Somewhere upwards of 220 new amphibian species have been discovered in Madagascar... see a picture gallery at National Geographic
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Copenhagen Accord
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Note: January updates following the end of the Copenhagen Conference are posted here
Climate Change and Copenhagen
Dec. 2009
Perhaps you saw ABC's "Earth 2100" show this last summer. It traces the growing climate disaster from 2009 to the end of the century, assuming we stay on the present course. At the end of this dark vision, the narrator returns to say, "But it doesn't have to be like this" and we rewind the clock to the critical moment where we could have followed a different path, one leading to a far brighter future. That critical juncture was the Copenhagen Conference of December, 2009. Two months from now. Copenhagen is the next stage of the Kyoto Protocol of 1998, and is possibly our last chance to make some serious headway.
Things look generally more promising than they did in 2007; we have a new administration in the US which wants to tackle the problem- indeed would even like to take the lead- and with the largest carbon emitter coming around, other big players, like China, India, and Brazil seem more willing to join in serious effort. However, warnings abound that governments are still stymied by actors overly subject to short-term thinking and localized influences and unable to grasp, or at least deal effectively with, this slow moving planetary emergency.
Something else has changed though, since the last Climate Conference in 2007. We have learned that due to the triggering of the feedback loops discussed in these pages, we are in fact already heading more rapidly than imagined just two years ago toward a worst-case-scenario.
Figures in the Obama administration seem intent on downplaying hopes for a treaty in Copenhagen. They are also downplaying the possibility of climate change legislation passing the US Congress "this year".
Let's hope we can do better than that. Below are resources and updates concerning climate change and the Copenhagen conference. You might consider taking a moment to call, write, or email your national leaders and urge them to be courageous and take the decisive steps necessary for our future. (see the Congressional Directory to find your representatives' contact info)
Nov. 23: Copenhagen Update, Climate Debt- Naomi Klein interviewed on Democracy Now
UNEP: Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner
New Science Report Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in Copenhagen
"Washington/Nairobi, 24 September 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)"
Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 report and related videos:
(view and download here)
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(UNEP: about the report)
Warming Arctic's global impacts outstrip predictions
"The Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications Report outlines dire global consequences of a warming Arctic that are far worse than previous projections. The unprecedented peer-reviewed report by top climate scientists shows that numerous arctic climate feedbacks- negative effects prompted by the impacts of warming- will make global climate change more severe than indicated by other recent projections, including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes 2007 assessment." (story)
Dr Martin Sommerkorn discusses the urgent issues raised in the report- watch video
Download the Report: (PDF) Download executive summary: (PDF)
UK PM Gordon Brown warns of climate 'catastrophe' if Copenhagen failure
Oct 19: 'Negotiators have less than 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse"'. (report)
UK Met Office warns of catastrophic climate change in our lifetimes
Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre calls it a a 'plausible worst case scenario' (audio) (PPT here).
Expect big jump in temperatures, U.N. warns
Earth's temperature is likely to jump six degrees between now and the end of the century even if every country cuts greenhouse gas emissions as proposed, according to a United Nations update. (story)
World's ocean temps warmest recorded
July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping.
"The heat is most noticeable near the Arctic, where water temperatures are as much as 10 degrees above average. The tongues of warm water could help melt sea ice from below and even cause thawing of ice sheets on Greenland" (story)
Earth's glaciers melting at an accelerated rate
"Sep 24, 2009 Glaciers along the margins of Antarctica and Greenland are flowing into the ocean at an ever-increasing rate due to rising sea temperatures, warn researchers in the UK"
(story)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon tells the world's governments "Our foot is stuck on the accelerator and we are heading towards an abyss"
"The world's glaciers are now melting faster than human progress to protect them - or us"
Not only is the Arctic serving as a warning, the warming there is accelerating global climate change, Ban said.
"Instead of reflecting heat, the Arctic is absorbing it as the sea ice diminishes, thus speeding up global warming. Methane, trapped in permafrost and on the sea bed, is escaping into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide."
Ban said the increased melt from the Greenland ice-cap threatens to raise sea levels and alter the flow of the Gulf Stream, essential to keep Europe warm.
(story)
Remarks of President Obama at the United Nations Climate Change Summit
"Our generation's response to this challenge will be judged by history, for if we fail to meet it boldly, swiftly and together we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe."
(download PDF)
Call your Representatives!
Rachael Joy speaking for the Environmental Defense Fund on what's happening, and what you can do about it. (watch video)
NYT Dot-Earth Copenhagen Coverage With Andrew Revkin
(Dot-Earth)
LinkTV is running a special feature on the Copenhagen Conference and Climate Change, with videos and reports updated weekly (online here)
For a taste of the international discussion going on about the Copenhagen Conference, watch an in-depth report on Al-Jazeera: the news anchor in Doha interviews the Vice President of the European Union, the Pan-African Director of Oxfam, and the President of Micronesia- (watch online)
Brazil Pre-Copenhagen Update
(story)
Report on the UN Climate Preparatory Summit September in New York
(NYT: Leaders Take Small Steps)
UN climate Summit Puts China, India in Spotlight
(story)
Climate Week Is Key Stop on Road to Copenhagen
Rep Ed Markey (D. MA) writes:
"Since the last decisive negotiation on a global agreement to address climate change -- held in Kyoto in 1997 -- the transformation of China's position has been the most dramatic. China's rates of investment in clean technology and carbon capture and storage now far outstrip those of the United States; even its efficiency standards for autos outpace ours. China looks to the upcoming round in Copenhagen to secure its position as a market leader in clean tech" (HuffPo-Markey)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax on domestic and imported goods aimed at curbing carbon emissions and averting catastrophic climate change.
(story)
Vital Signs of a Warming World
The science, impacts, and scenarios of climate shifts- An MSNBC.com special feature
Study: Earth is outside of safe operating space
Current environmental trends may lead to a cycle of global catastrophic change, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
"Our planet taking environmental hits all at once; its truly scary in a lot of ways-"
(story)
Economic and Ecological Collapse: Same Causes
Thomas Friedman spoke at the American Academy in Berlin on October 14th, about the revised edition of his book "Hot Flat and Crowded', and described the crucial links between the crash of the economy and the crash of the biosphere; an interesting talk- watch the video here
Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet
Georges Monbiot for the The Guardian:
Population growth is not a problem - it's among those who consume the least. So why isn't anyone targeting the very rich?
Between 1980 and 2005, for instance, sub-Saharan Africa produced 18.5% of the world's population growth and just 2.4%of the growth in CO2. North America turned out only 4% of the extra people, but 14% of the extra emissions.
(article)
See an in-depth report on the issue at Copenhagen at Al Jazeera
Sustainable Cities in the Future
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom speaking at the LongNow Foundation, reminds us that the majority of Earth's human population now lives in cities. How shall they be sustained?
(watch video)
Out of the Wasteland, Hope for a Greener World
Dr. Richard Chartres, Bishop of London and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity, addresses the hard facts and statistics of waste against the poetic London backdrop of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and offers a holistic vision for a sustainable future.
(watch video)
Harvard Yard: Organic Landscaping Impresses
"Theres a give-and-take between fungi and plants, as the fungi consume carbohydrates exuded by plant roots and give back water, phosphorus and other minerals. Bacteria also consume carbohydrates. And they in turn are eaten by protozoa and other creatures that convert the bacterias protein into nitrogen, which feeds the plants." (NYT article)
Watch a slide presentation of the Organic Landscaping project here
Killer Nature: The Medea Hypothesis
Scientist Peter Ward on past extinctions & the next one. Against James Lovelock's friendly "Gaia" - Ward says life may be ecocidal.
(Radio Ecoshock) (Download audio mp3)
Vandana Shiva on Gandhi for Todays World
Yes Magazine interview: Vandana Shiva with David Barsamian
(story)
Amazon Tribes Win Against Big Oil
In the Amazon rainforests of Peru and Ecuador, indigenous groups are on the front lines of the climate change battle.
(story)
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Funeral of a Much-Loved Chimpanzee
"Her presence, and loss, was palpable, and resonated throughout the group. The management at Sanaga-Yong opted to let Dorothy's chimpanzee family witness her burial, so that perhaps they would understand, in their own capacity, that Dorothy would not return" (story, Nat Geo)
Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
Scientists have determined that animals "may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind". (story)
This represents a great leap for the human mind! (so when do we stop the slaughter?) -Ed
Dolphin Slaughter Turns Sea Red
As the Japanese hunting season returns, Taiji's annual cull of bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales continues despite growing international condemnation
(story)
Criticism of the dolphin hunts intensified this summer with the release of the award-winning US documentary The Cove, whose makers used remote-controlled helicopters and hidden underwater cameras to record the hunters at work. The Cove
The Tokyo International Film Festival will show "The Cove". But the decision was so last-minute the movie didn't make it into the official press package.
(story) "Dante's Inferno for Dolphins" - (story)
On Thanksgiving, Larry King interviewed Ben Stiller and Richard O'Barry about the movie "The Cove". (watch online)
See what you can do about this here
Faroe Slaughter Too
The same thing goes on in the Faroe Islands (see pic left). Go here to sign a petition calling for an end to the Faroes slaughter.
Nat'l Geographic: Giant 'Mucilages' Spreading in Mediterranean
Some blobs are up to 124 miles long!
Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise
Saving the Seeds
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon visited the "Doomsday" seed vault in the arctic in September.
"This site, collated by all the countries, is really creative. I'm inspired by this vision to sustain the world in the future..." (story)
See our page devoted to "saving seeds" with videos on the Doomsday Vault, Vendana Shiva's efforts to preserve seed diversity, and Jeffrey Smith on GMO foods here
Related: The World According to Monsanto
Signs of Life: Cities Eat Local
The city of Berkeley, California, has approved a climate-action plan that sets a target for reducing citywide greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 and includes measures to localize the food sector. The plan will fund new community gardens and park projects, develop a community orchard on vacant city land, and provide financial incentives to restaurants that sell local organic food. (story)
Farmers Market Near White House Is Approved
With a little help from the White House, a nonprofit group (Fresh Farm Markets) won approval on Thursday to set up an open-air farmers market near the Executive Mansion
(story)
Bisphenol A in Found in Canned Goods: Soups, Juice, and more
Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain some BPA. (report)
Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up
Washington lobbyists have been enjoying a multi-million-dollar sugar rush from the food industry. Soft drink makers, supermarket companies, agriculture and the fast-food business have poured millions into campaigning against what they fear could be a burgeoning national movement to raise money for health care reform by taxing sweetened beverages. (story)
Michelle Obama's White House Garden Harvest Speech
On the occasion of the harvest of the White House Garden, the First Lady speaks about the deteriorating health of america's children and the importance of healthy diet, and especially of access to fresh local produce. (watch video)
Young Woman Paralyzed by a Hamburger
"Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes.
Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. Seizures knocked her unconscious. The convulsions grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a coma for nine weeks. When she emerged, she could no longer walk. The affliction had ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed...
Ms. Smith, 22, was found to have a severe form of food-borne illness caused by the virulent strain of E. coli known as O157:H7, which Minnesota officials traced to the hamburger that her mother had grilled for their Sunday dinner in early fall 2007
The Times traces the sources of the meat that went into the hamburger Stephanie ate, and it isn't pretty: "The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled 'American Chefs Selection Angus Beef Patties'. Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria" (story: Woman's Shattered Life Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef)
Climate Change and Meat-Eating: The Industrialization of Carnivory is the Problem
A well-reasoned and well-sourced OpEd in the Times today (Oct 30) by Nicolette Hahn Niman argues that the problem with carnivory in the context of greenhouse emissions is with the industrialization of the meat industry, not with meat-eating per se. She details how meat can be raised for food without excessive greenhouse emissions, which is essentially a case for conscious, local, organic, free range, non-industrialized meat-raising. An important piece of the debate on food- (NYT OpEd: The Carnivore's Dilemma)
Related:
Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat
The Breathtaking Effects Of Cutting Back On Meat
Ill From Food? Investigations Vary by State
Food Companies Are Placing the Onus for Safety on Consumers
Bad Seed: Gov't/Corporate Takeover of U.S. Food Supply?
Nat Geo: The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty
The Future of Food / UNEP: The Environmental Food Crisis
UK Food Council: Food needs 'Fundamental Rethink'
Meat Worldwide: Who Eats How Much?
Lester Brown: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
CBS: Community Supported Agriculture
A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World
Biomagic: Food, Fruit, and The Botany of Desire
Blue Grotto Sewage Dump
"The Blue Grotto, the most famous tourist attraction on the island of Capri, was closed to visitors yesterday due to fears its crystal waters had been contaminated by raw sewage, possibly dumped by the Naples mafia two employees of a waste disposal firm at Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples, had dumped 5,000 litres of raw cesspool sewage in the grotto using hoses"
(Blue Grotto's Crystal Waters Contaminated By Raw Sewage)
EPA Holds Back Poisoned Drinking Water Report
Atrazine, a widely used weed-killer, has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results.
(story)
Study Finds School Drinking Water Tainted
Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states - in small towns and inner cities alike.
But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied.
(story)
Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health (story, NYT)
NYT Investigation Exposes Severity of Nationwide Water Contamination:
Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years
This story and more on water and food supply related subjects at Democracy Now! 'Food and Water'.
Widespread Occurrence of Intersex Bass Found in U.S. Rivers
Canaries in the coal mines, bass in the rivers?
(story)
Mercury contamination in fish widespread- podcast USGS
Every fish tested all 291 streams sampled was found to be contaminated with mercury from coal plants.
(report)
see other USGS CoreCasts
Salmon Runs Restored to the Seine
Atlantic salmon have been restored to the Seine for the first time in over 100 years.
(Hemingway's Dream: Flyfishing in Paris? Salmon Runs Restored to the Seine)
Urban Bicycling
David Byrne: Live on Two Wheels
A NYTimes video interview with David Byrne about his passion for bicycles and what he thinks New York City should do to become more bike friendly. (watch online)
How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road
"If you want to know if an urban environment supports cycling, you can forget about all the detailed 'bikeability indexes'- just measure the proportion of cyclists who are female..." - from "How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road" in October's Scientific American- and online here.
From the previous issue
The State of Our Food
and Michelle Obama's Victory Garden
"When Michelle Obama began planting an organic garden on the South Lawn of the White House recently, there was no doubt she was sending a message, but the message was more subversive and far-reaching than most American media coverage recognized....Fresh food tastes better and is better for you, so kids and grown-ups alike should eat lots more of it... What made Obama's message so subversive was something she left unsaid: the food most Americans eat nowadays is not fresh, tasty or healthy.
"The superiority of fresh ingredients may be obvious to Italians, but it is a truth most Americans long ago forgot, if they ever knew it in the first place. Over the past fifty years, the United States has been transformed into a fast food nation, in author Eric Schlosser's phrase. What the typical American eats is not so much food as it is highly processed food derivatives that have traveled thousands of miles since leaving the farm, losing along the way most of the flavor and nutritional value they once possessed. To disguise such losses, food manufacturers overload products with fats, salts and sweeteners, especially corn syrup--additives that, along with the massive portions typically served in the United States, help explain why nearly one in three Americans is obese... "
(read more at The Nation)
MACA, the lobbying arm of Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, and DuPont Crop Protection, and others of the same ilk, blasted Mrs Obama for not using pesticides. (story) and (here)
Willem Malten has written a post about the White House Garden at his blog, "Vortex"
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Greenland's glaciers contain a volume of water equivalent to the entire Gulf of Mexico. If it all melted, sea levels would rise over 20 feet. The Antarctic ice pack contains ten times as much, and melted, would raise ocean levels by over 200 feet.
Chris Jordan, "Gyre"
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"Gyre" depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean. View large versions of Gyre and many other of Chris Jordan's illuminating art works at his website: Chris Jordan Photography
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Callebaut is an enormously talented designer of urban living machines of the future. For more on Dragonfly, as well as many other inspired projects (including Lilypad, featured in these pages last year) see his firm's website.
June 2: Diego Mulligan interviewed James Lovelock, originator of Gaia Theory, about the state of the planet now. He's not optimistic. But at 90 something, he's going into low orbit on Richard Branson's Spaceship 2 this fall from New Mexico to have a look. (podcast)
Lovelock- Follow-up Interview with Diego Mulligan on KSFR starting Friday June 12th at 5:05 pm. (more info)
Earth 2100
Bob Woodruff presents this ABC special envisioning human life on earth over the next century. In the first part, a more and more environmentally deranged planet, daily life is seen through the eyes of a girl born in 2009. This is a worst-case scenario, a dark and scary vision. In the second part, an alternative path into the future is charted leading to what E.O.Wilson calls "a paradise". (watch online)
The Botany of Desire
Whether or not you've read Michael Pollan's fascinating book "The Botany of Desire", you'll enjoy the excellent PBS Special based on it, and especially the show's smart and attractive website, with 'web extras'- like the interview segments with Pollan linked above, and a further graphically rich dedicated website to explore deeper the themes and frames of the book. (watch show segments and extras online)
(Botany of Desire- website)
Gaia Hypothesis
Surprisingly good summary of the Gaia Hypothesis
watch here
CoolIris is really cool- an image and video based search browser in theater form. download here
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Envirolink was the first big environmental hub on the web in the mid-nineties, and is still now a tremendous resource. Envirolink.org
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When he was 14 years old, William Kamkwamba of Malawi built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book, to have light at night for reading. Recently he spoke at the TED Conference. (watch here)
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