Instructional Video7:13
TED Talks

TED: Make your actions on climate reflect your words⇥ | Severn Cullis-Suzuki

12th - Higher Ed
History has shown us that in moments of crisis, society can truly transform, says environmental educator Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Nearly 30 years ago, at just 12 years old, she spoke at the UN's Earth Summit in hopes of reversing the...
Instructional Video13:15
TED Talks

TED: Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR | Chris Fisher

12th - Higher Ed
We have archives of films, newspapers, even seeds -- what if we could make one for the entire surface of the earth? Drawing on his experience mapping an ancient city in the Honduran jungle, archaeologist Chris Fisher makes the case for...
Instructional Video0:42
SciShow

Marshes are superheroes. #shorts #science #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks

12th - Higher Ed
Marshes are superheroes. #shorts #science #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks
Instructional Video13:10
TED Talks

TED: The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now | Stacy Kauk

12th - Higher Ed
Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which...
Instructional Video12:17
TED Talks

TED: Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste | Amanda Little

12th - Higher Ed
Our food systems have not been designed to adapt to major disruptions like climate change, says environmental journalist Amanda Little. In this eye-opening talk, she shows how the climate crisis could devastate our food supply -- and...
Instructional Video6:15
TED Talks

TED: How can we escape soaring energy bills? Stop using fossil fuels | Tessa Khan

12th - Higher Ed
As oil and gas companies continue to make record profits off of the same forces driving climate chaos, war and soaring energy bills, it's become clear that boom times for the fossil fuel industry are bad times for the rest of us, says...
Instructional Video40:50
TED Talks

TED: The future we're building -- and boring | elon Musk

12th - Higher Ed
elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TeD's Head Curator, Chris Anderson.
Instructional Video4:26
TED-Ed

How much land does it take to power the world? | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
No matter how we make electricity, it takes up space. Coal requires mines, and plants to convert it into electricity. Nuclear power takes uranium mines, facilities to refine it, a reactor, and a place to store the spent fuel safely....
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

3 Extreme Climate Fixes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about a few - maybe crazy, maybe reasonable - geoengineering schemes that some scientists have come up with in order to "fix" climate change, including designer clouds, ocean fertilization, and stratospheric shading with...
Instructional Video12:38
TED Talks

¿Cuales son los límites de nuestro planeta?

Higher Ed
¿Cuales son los límites de nuestro planeta? Nuestra economía se ha adaptado desde la época de la revolución industrial a la actual revolución tecnológica, y los recursos naturales se utilizaron exponencialmente en el proceso de...
Instructional Video22:56
TED Talks

Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

12th - Higher Ed
Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think -- and might...
Instructional Video11:33
Crash Course

Europe in the Global Age: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John looks at what it even means to live in a global age, as we've been talking about Europe's role in the gobal community for 47 episodes now. But, pedantry aside, the world is more connected than ever, and that has had effects...
Instructional Video3:21
TED Talks

Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing

12th - Higher Ed
Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.
Instructional Video5:14
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: M Jackson: How to grow your own glacier

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 13th century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering countries and drawing them into his empire. But, legend has it that there was one obstacle that even he couldn't overcome: a towering wall...
Instructional Video16:57
TED Talks

TED: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh evans

12th - Higher Ed
Hugh evans started a movement that mobilizes "global citizens," people who self-identify first and foremost not as members of a state, nation or tribe but as members of the human race. In this uplifting and personal talk, learn more...
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

The 19th Century Science That's Fighting Climate Change Today

12th - Higher Ed
The HMS Challenger embarked in the 1870s to survey the world’s oceans. The data the expedition collected is still being used over 100 years later to inform what we know about climate change.
Instructional Video10:34
TED Talks

TED: How to fix the "bugs" in the net-zero code | Lucas Joppa

12th - Higher Ed
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft's first chief environmental officer, thinks about climate change through the lens of coding, and he says the world's current net-zero approach simply won't compute. So how do we create a system that actually...
Instructional Video10:01
TED Talks

Mieux connaître la pollution de l’air pour mieux s’en protéger.

Higher Ed
Mieux connaître la pollution de l’air pour mieux s’en protéger. Afin de mieux comprendre la pollution de l’air et donc s’en protéger, 2018 TED Fellow, Romain Lacombe a développé une application mobile qui agrège des données afin...
Instructional Video5:50
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can the economy grow forever? | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Many economists think that an eternally growing economy is necessary to keep improving people's lives, and that if the global economy stops growing, people would fight more over the fixed amount of value that exists, rather than working...
Instructional Video9:50
TED Talks

Sean Davis: Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer

12th - Higher Ed
The Montreal Protocol proved that the world could come together and take action on climate change. Thirty years after the world's most successful environmental treaty was signed, atmospheric scientist Sean Davis examines the world we...
Instructional Video15:44
SciShow

Interview with EPA Administrator McCarthy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank interviews Administrator Gina McCarthy of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. They discuss getting people to care about climate change, the EPA's goals going into the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and the...
Instructional Video11:18
TED Talks

TED: How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud

12th - Higher Ed
Biochar is a kind of charcoal that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, helping yield healthy crops and even producing abundant renewable energy in the form of electricity as it's made. This exciting climate change fighter is ready for...
Instructional Video8:02
TED Talks

TED: A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save | Anushka Ratnayake

12th - Higher Ed
A safe space to save money is life-changing -- especially for the 60 million smallholder farmers in West Africa (the majority being women) who often live on less than two dollars a day. Poverty fighter Anushka Ratnayake introduces her...
Instructional Video15:55
TED Talks

TED: This computer will grow your food in the future | Caleb Harper

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology....