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Alex Steffen Author of Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet
Alex Steffen is the thinking-person's optimist. His inspiring, provocative talks about our future pack houses around the world. Whether explaining humanity's best solutions (in Worldchanging), imagining the opportunities to be found in climate-neutral cities (in Carbon Zero), or sharing breakthrough insights...
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Jared Diamond Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse
Jared Diamond is a celebrity scientist, in the best sense of the term. The massive audiences at his talks emerge with a fresh outlook on the big questions. Why do some societies prosper while others die? What can we learn from the collective history of every human society? In comprehensive keynotes, Dr. Diamond shows us...
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Shalini Kantayya Filmmaker, Eco-Activist, TED Fellow
Brooklyn-based filmmaker, educator, and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya uses film as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. Her futuristic sci-fi flick about the world water crisis, A Drop of Life, won Best Short at Palm Beach International, a Crystal Dior Nomination at Tokyo Short Shorts, and was...
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Edward O. Wilson One of the World's Most Distinguished Biologists
E.O. Wilson has made a tremendous contribution to our understanding of biodiversity, while his insights on social and group behavior have changed our perception of ourselves. The stirring keynotes from this legendary Harvard biologist are both majestic overtures to all life on earth as well as eloquent pleas to government,...
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Laurence C. Smith UCLA Climate Scientist and Author
How will the combination of a booming global population and global warming change the world? Which countries will struggle, and which will prosper? Dr. Laurence C. Smith believes the North is set for major gains. In sweeping talks, Smith outlines the changes that our world will face in the next 50 years, both geologically...
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Adria Vasil Author of Ecoholic, Leading Environmental Columnist
Through her accessible and comprehensive books, the popular green advice column she's been writing since 2004, her public lectures, and her regular appearances on CBC News, CTV's Canada AM, and many other programs, Adria Vasil helps regular people decipher legitimately green products and choices from the...
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Charles Fishman Author of The Big Thirst:The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Charles Fishman is the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, the bestselling book on water in America in the past 25 years. An award-winning senior writer for Fast Company, Fishman is a celebrated investigative journalist, specializing in business innovation...
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Jessica Green Director of The Biology and Built Environment Center and TED Senior Fellow
A TED Senior Fellow, Jessica Green uses non-traditional tools—like art, animation, and film—to help people visualize the invisible world of microbes, and understand the hugely important role they play in every facet of our lives. In visually stunning and eye-opening talks, Green shows us a geometric-driven approach...
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The Honourable Jean Charest 29th Premier of Québec & Former Deputy Prime Minister of CanadaJean Charest is one of Canada’s best known political figures. Charest is the 29th Premier of Québec, serving from 2003 to 2012, and is a former Deputy Prime Minister. With stirring eloquence, he speaks about his career in public service, which has touched on practically every social, political, economic, and...
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Michael Levi Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations
American energy is changing more radically than it has in forty years, and people are grappling with the consequences. Michael Levi illuminates the whole picture like no one else can. He shows what changes from fossil fuels to clean energy mean for the economy, security, and the planet, and lights a new path that moves...
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