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The four things you need to know about the energy you use

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Jordan Wirfs-Brock |

TEDxMileHighWomen

• October 2016

"It's easy to go through life using energy every day while knowing next to nothing about it," says journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock. She wants us to reconnect, to understand how energy drives our world: "Energy makes everything we do possible, yet we treat it as an insignificant other." In an energetic talk, Wirfs-Brock shows us the four things we need to know about the energy we use.

"It's easy to go through life using energy every day while knowing next to nothing about it," says journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock. She wants us to reconnect, to understand how energy drives our world: "Energy makes everything we do possible, yet we treat it as an insignificant other." In an energetic talk, Wirfs-Brock shows us the four things we need to know about the energy we use.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxMileHighWomen, an independent event.

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About the speaker

Jordan Wirfs-Brock

Energy Storyteller

A passionate storyteller who loves finding elegant ways of communicating complex issues, Jordan finds narratives where others might see only chaos. A reporter for Inside Energy, Jordan has covered everything from gas leaks to garbage to dairy farming over the course of her career. She spends her free time brewing beer and running ultramarathons.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxMileHighWomen, an independent event.

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