Hip-Hop Environmental Activism: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez at TEDxYouth@MileHigh. TEDxEQCHCH - Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Economics of Happiness. TEDxEQCHCH - Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Economics of Happiness. Objects of desire | TED Playlists. Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue. The pursuit of justice | TED Playlists. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability. People are Getting Smarter...Content is Getting Dumber: Alexander Macris at TEDxBinghamtonUniversity. Are Robots The Future Of Sex?: Jincey Lumpkin Esq. at TEDxSiliconAlley. Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change.
Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud. iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay. Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate. Who Killed The Electric Car. Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas. Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation. Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff. Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar. Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim. Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk". TEDx: Fracture-Critical Design / Tom Fisher. Thomas Fisher, Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, discusses the subject matter of his most recent book, Designing To Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design.
Fisher believes we have been engaged in a “Ponzi scheme” with our planet, as fracture-critical design has lead to a number of recent catastrophic events in our infrastructure, politics and economy. The I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, New Orleans’ flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince’s destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant’s devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic are all examples of fragile systems that were created by this failed system. The solution? Integrating resiliency back into our lives. Watch the video to learn more. via TEDxUMN.