Curated Video
Empowering Communities with Solar Energy: Transforming Lives in India and Costa Rica
New ReviewThe video showcases how solar power is transforming the lives of communities in India and Costa Rica by providing electricity and sustainable cooking solutions. In Rajasthan, villages are skipping traditional electricity grids and...
Curated Video
Empowering Rural India: The Impact of Solar Power in Rajasthan
This video showcases the transformative impact of solar power in remote villages near Bikana, Rajasthan, India. Through the initiative of a non-governmental organization from Tehran, solar panels are providing sustainable and affordable...
Science360
Solar Fuels: A grand challenge of 21st century chemistry
Solar panels are becoming a familiar sight in communities across the United States, but what about solar fuels? A solar fuel is produced from sunlight through artificial photosynthesis, mimicking what Mother Nature has been doing for...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels? | Dan Kwartler
Stretching over roughly nine million square kilometers and with sands reaching temperatures of up to 80° Celsius, the Sahara Desert receives about 22 million terawatt hours of energy from the Sun every year. That's well over 100 times...
SciShow
5 Ways Biology Is Transforming Buildings
Throughout history humans have come up with lots of different ways to build shelters for themselves. But sometimes, inspiration for better construction materials comes from nature, in structures you might not expect — like the scales on a
Science360
Solar Fuels: A grand challenge of 21st century chemistry
Solar panels are becoming a familiar site in communities across the United States, but what about solar fuels? A solar fuel is produced from sunlight through artificial photosynthesis, mimicking what Mother Nature has been doing for...
Curated Video
Lighting a Path: Women Solar Engineers Transform Zanzibar Communities
Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering, bucking a tradition of entrenched gender roles and marginalization in the workforce. They come from villages across East Africa, where many homes are...
Next Animation Studio
Installing massive wind and solar farms across the Sahara could affect weather
Scientists say installing massive wind and solar farms across the Sahara Desert could affect the weather.
TED Talks
TED: What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko
Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is...
SciShow
Is the Power Grid Ready for Green Energy?
Despite the rise of renewable energy, the backbone of the power grid is fossil fuels. Adapting the grid to green energy sources is more complicated than flipping a switch.
Science360
Oil spill cleanups: finding the right chemistry
Sunlight plays a key role in the natural degradation of oil after a spill, oxygenating the oil so it dissolves in seawater and comes in contact with microbes that will break it down. But, under certain conditions, sunlight can have...
Curated Video
The Process of Photosynthesis
The Process of Photosynthesis explains that the source of energy in ecosystems comes from sunlight by illustrating producers transferring and transforming energy through photosynthesis.
Curated Video
NASA | Comet ISON's Path Through the Solar System
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year. Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as "dirty snowballs," comets emit gas and...
Schooling Online
Biology Cells as the Basis of Life: Cell Structure - Plant Cells Part 2
Sally’s field trip to the Garden of Babylon is turning into a road trip. Her first stop is the post office. It’s not every day that a stork delivers your mail! This lesson will continue unearthing the structure of plant cells, focusing...
Science360
TRANSFORMATIONAL BUILDING DESIGN ENERGIZES WATER RECYCLING--LITERALLY!
Architect Maria Paz Gutierrez is a woman on a mission. In addition to mentoring student building designers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Paz Gutierrez is putting her own design skills to work to address a key...
Science360
The Solar Decathlon: Housing's Bright Spot - Science Nation
During October of 2010, taking a walk on the Mall in Washington D.C. might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty solar-powered homes were sprawled across the mall's west end, transforming it from a park into something...
Science360
Solar Decathlon
This past October, taking a walk on the Mall in Washington D.C. might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty solar-powered homes were sprawled across the mall's west end, transforming it from a park into something that...
TeleTime Video
Bringing Israeli Solar Technologies to African Villages and Changing Lives
The video is a speech given by an Israeli woman named Sivan Ya'ari, the founder of Innovation: Africa, an organization that brings solar technology to villages in Africa to transform schools, medical centers, and to pump water. Ya'ari...
The Atlantic
When Will Solar Get Cheap?
Solar is not like other energy sources. Photovoltaic cells are a transformative technology, Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic's senior technology editor, argues in the short video above. The faster the price of solar energy falls, the more...
Gresham College
Energy and Emergy: Measuring Well-Being Among Nations - Denis White
This talk centres on Energy Systems Theory which postulates that the transformation of energy underlies all phenomena and that the available energy previously used up directly and indirectly to make any item can be accounted for as...
Curated Video
Tree Yoga Adventure: Growing Strong and Tall
In this engaging and imaginative yoga session led by Rashmi, children transform into small seeds and grow into strong and tall trees using their bodies and imagination. Through movements mimicking growth with water and sunlight, they...
The EcoHero Show
Oh So Solar
Environmental Rap Superhero Mr. Eco transforms into a 6th grader to convince his parents and school to get solar.
Curated Video
NASA | Chasing Comet ISON
Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) may become a dazzling sight as it traverses the inner solar system in late 2013. During the weeks before its Nov. 28 close approach to the sun, the comet will be observable with small telescopes, and binoculars....
TED Talks
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing...