TED Talks

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5:35

Romain Lacombe

A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

Posted Apr 2019

6:10

Jeff Kirschner

This app makes it fun to pick up litter

Posted Feb 2017

5:54

Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu

Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030

Posted Oct 2020

16:48

Bill Ford

A future beyond traffic gridlock

Posted Jun 2011

5:20

Sophie Howe

Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it

Posted Nov 2020

6:46

Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, Nana Firman, Ximena Loría and Tim Guinee

Climate change is our reality. Here's how we're taking action

Posted Mar 2021

6:46

Brent Loken

Can we create the "perfect" farm?

Posted Oct 2020

14:48

Bernie Krause

The voice of the natural world

Posted Jul 2013

15:35

Wendy Woods

The business benefits of doing good

Posted Jan 2018

11:42

Shigeru Ban

Emergency shelters made from paper

Posted Aug 2013

8:54

Nonette Royo

Why Indigenous forest guardianship is crucial to climate action

Posted May 2022

15:54

Ray Anderson

The business logic of sustainability

Posted May 2009

16:51

Craig Venter

Sampling the ocean's DNA

Posted Apr 2007

6:15

Angel Hsu

Cities are driving climate change. Here's how they can fix it

Posted Apr 2021

8:42

Natsai Audrey Chieza

Possible futures from the intersection of nature, tech and society

Posted Mar 2021

15:06

Amy Smith

Simple designs to save a life

Posted Aug 2006

13:44

Michael Hendryx

The shocking danger of mountaintop removal — and why it must end

Posted May 2018

13:03

Nicola Jones

The dangers of a noisy ocean — and how we can quiet it down

Posted Mar 2020

12:13

Veronica Chau

3 ways your money can fight climate change

Posted May 2023

5:45

Graham Hill

Why I'm a weekday vegetarian

Posted May 2010

16:16

Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose + Naomi Shah

Award-winning teenage science in action

Posted Jan 2012

10:04

Mathias Basner

Why noise is bad for your health — and what you can do about it

Posted Feb 2019

10:23

Xavier Cortada

A creative approach to community climate action

Posted Dec 2022

3:05

Bill Shribman

What cameras see that our eyes don't

Posted Apr 2013

11:22

Yaniv Erlich

How we're building the world's largest family tree

Posted Sep 2019

9:27

Zahra Biabani

The eco-creators helping the climate through social media

Posted Jul 2022

12:02

Nancy Rabalais

The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico

Posted Apr 2018

12:11

Bart Weetjens

How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

Posted Dec 2010

3:02

Ernestine Leikeki Sevidzem

A "forest generation" living in harmony with nature

Posted Oct 2020

14:55

Will Potter

The secret US prisons you've never heard of before

Posted Oct 2015

3:55

Thomas Boothby

Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth

Posted Mar 2017

3:05

Cameron Sinclair

The refugees of boom-and-bust

Posted Nov 2009

3:28

Nilofer Merchant

Got a meeting? Take a walk

Posted Apr 2013

4:32

Anees Bahji

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat?

Posted May 2022

3:21

Wayne Ting

A carbon-free future starts with driving less

Posted Nov 2022

10:13

Elizabeth Diller

A stealthy reimagining of urban public space

Posted Jan 2021