The Anatomy Of The Earth Brought To Life

What a wonderful world!

On TED Talk Tuesday, we get a glimpse of the amazing world that cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg brings to life. He describes his greatest satisfaction as creating works that have a positive effect on the future of Earth: “I hope my films inspire and open people’s hearts … If I can move enough people on an emotional level, I hope we can achieve the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life.”

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Beauty is Nature’s Tool For Survival (Prepare to be wowed)

 

To Err Is Human

It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and here’s a fascinating talk by “wrongologist” Kathryn Schultz, on the human tendency to be wrong about just about everything.

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“This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often, is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world.” Kathryn Schultz

TED ED: On Being Wrong

Goodbye Fossil Fuels: Rejecting Scarcity & Embracing Abundance

It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and today’s talk, like last week’s, is from TEDx Sydney and features Danny Kennedy,Founder and President of Sungevity.  Before starting Sungevity Kennedy spent decades campaigning with Greenpeace; in this talk he discusses how profit can save the planet rather than destroying it.

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Sungevity: The Life & Times Of Solar People

“I Have A Dream”: How Great Leaders Inspire Us

An inspiring TED talk from Simon Sinek, motivational speaker and author of Start With Why about how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?”  This video should be required viewing for climate activists who want to communicate with others about why climate change is the pivotal issue of our times.

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TED Talk Tuesday

In this TED talk, Bryan Stevenson starts a conversation about injustice that we all need to hear. The youtube description says this:

In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

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For more great TED talks, go to www.ted.com or check on Netflix.

TED Talk Monday

LOL – you will note that today is Monday, not Tuesday, the usual day for “TED Talk Tuesday” postings. I wish I could claim I just posted it today to confuse folks, but alas I’m not that clever – I just got my dates mixed up.  Whatever the case, enjoy this talk.

Fascinating!

Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

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How Changing Perspective Could Save Our Environment

It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Here is advertising expert and funny guy Rory Sutherland talking about how it’s possible to change the way people value things can have surprising results:

Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

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