Lectures tagged "Sustainability"

David M. Walker: Restoring Fiscal Responsibility in the US
David M. Walker
January 27, 2010
00:57:22
Financial expert David M. Walker examines the United States' national fiscal outlook and discusses his new book, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility.
Al Gore: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis
Al Gore
November 7, 2009
01:07:40
Former US Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore discusses his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.
Angela Belcher: New Medical Diagnostics and Cancer Research
Angela Belcher
April 30, 2009
00:55:11
Bioengineer Angela Belcher discusses her research at MIT, which has applications for new battery technologies, understanding cancer, and new medical diagnostics. This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.
John Ochsendorf: Redesigning Communities and Carbon Neutrality
John Ochsendorf
April 28, 2009
01:00:37
MacArthur Award-winning structural engineer John Ochsendorf talks about how his interests in environmental science, history, archeology, and engineering led him to his work with historic structures, and then to his work redesigning communities to make them carbon neutral.
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Blessed Unrest: The Environmental Movement
Paul Hawken
May 23, 2007
01:23:02
Writer and environmentalist Paul Hawken discusses his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, which explores the diversity of the environmental movement, its ideas, strategies, and hidden history, going back many centuries.
African Americans and the Environment
Valerie Jackson
April 19, 2007
01:50:52
WABE-Atlanta radio talk show host Valerie Jackson moderates a town hall-style panel discussion on Global Warming and other environmental challenges, featuring national environmental leaders.
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Stephen Connors: Future of Alternative Energy Begins Now
Stephen Connors
September 17, 2006
00:23:51
Stephen Connors closes the 2006 AltWheels Symposium by leading a discussion with attendees about the symposium's themes and questions.
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Hopeful Future: Alternative Energy and Transportation
Roger Saillant
September 17, 2006
00:55:26
Roger Saillant, CEO of PlugPower, discusses the reasons to be hopeful about the future of alternative energy and transportation.