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Eben Bayer: Are mus...
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09:03:39 10/04/10

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the env...

Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Added 10/04/10
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Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

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Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

Eben Bayer: Are mus...
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09:00:00 10/04/10

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the env...

Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Added 10/04/10
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Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

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Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

Julian Treasure: Sh...
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18:58:34 09/23/10

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assau...

Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Added 09/23/10
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Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

Julian Treasure: Sh...
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13:58:34 09/23/10

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assau...

Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Added 09/23/10
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Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

Julian Treasure: Sh...
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13:55:00 09/23/10

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assau...

Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

Rachel Sussman: The...
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13:54:40 09/03/10

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground fores...

Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

Rachel Sussman: The...
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08:54:40 09/03/10

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground fores...

Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

Rachel Sussman: The...
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08:52:00 09/03/10

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground fores...

Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things

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Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

Jason Clay: How big...
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13:45:39 08/16/10

Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. ...

Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables are getting big brand rivals to agree on green practices first -- before their products duke it out on store shelves.

Jason Clay: How big...
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08:45:39 08/16/10

Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. ...

Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables are getting big brand rivals to agree on green practices first -- before their products duke it out on store shelves.

Jason Clay: How big...
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08:43:00 08/16/10

Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. ...

Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity

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Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables are getting big brand rivals to agree on green practices first -- before their products duke it out on store shelves.

Nalini Nadkarni: Li...
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14:04:43 07/08/10

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washing...

Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.

Nalini Nadkarni: Li...
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09:04:43 07/08/10

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washing...

Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.

Nalini Nadkarni: Li...
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08:52:00 07/08/10

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washing...

Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

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Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.

Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
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14:38:09 06/29/10

Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "...

Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.

Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
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09:38:09 06/29/10

Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "...

Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.

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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
06/15/09

At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.