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Mark Lynas - PopTech 2005 - video

Environmental journalist Mark Lynas reports from his global tour of climate change hotspots - documenting the dramatic effects that even one degree of global warming may have around the world....

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[ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Peter Ward - PopTech 2003 - video

Life as we know it will come to an end, says earth scientist Peter Ward in this talk from PopTech 2003. The big question is whether the planet will kill off our species (and millions of others) naturally, millions of years hence, or whether we'll accelerate our own demise by poisoning the climate first....

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[ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Graham Hawkes - PopTech 2003 - video

Renowned ocean explorer Graham Hawkes creates a new generation of underwater craft. His winged Deep Flight submersibles give pilots the speed, agility and visibility to "fly" underwater and may help scientists learn more about the ocean and its inhabitants than ever before. ...

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[ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

The Yes Men - PopTech 2006 - video

Practicing "identity correction" – the Yes Men target large corporations that put profits ahead of everything else. Getting inside the system, and impersonating business leaders, they smuggle stories out to the world to expose big business wrong-doing....

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[ Sat, 09 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Suketu Mehta - PopTech 2005 - video

Writer Suketu Mehta glimpses our possible urban future through the lens of the vastly contrasting lifestyles in Mumbai, the biggest, fastest, richest city in India, and with a population of 21 million, larger and more crowded than many nation states....

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[ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Robert Neuwirth - PopTech 2005 - video

Having spent two years living in squatter communities across four continents, urban ethnographer Robert Neuwirth finds people living lives of complexity, challenge, and surprising resiliency....

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[ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

John Priscu - PopTech 2008 - video

Join polar scientist John Priscu – and his autonomous robots - as he takes us miles below the Antarctic ice to search for living organisms that may have been cut off from the rest of the planet's ecosystem for millions of years....

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[ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Frank Warren - Pop!Tech 2008 - video

Four years ago, Frank Warren walked the streets of DC at night, handing out self-addressed postcards to strangers, soliciting their secrets. Watch as the creator of the wildly popular blog PostSecret reveals some of the hundreds of thousands of secrets shared by people from around the world in those four years...including a few of his own....

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[ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT ]

Ken Banks - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Ken Banks is the founder of kiwanja.net, which helps local, national and international non-profits put mobiles to work through innovative offerings like FrontlineSMS – free software enabling coordinated, many-to-many, two-way text messaging. Learn how Ken's solutions are being used to improve communications in a variety of critical situations, including human rights and election monitoring, disaster relief coordination and much more. ...

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Kushal Chakrabarti - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Kushal Chakrabarti's Vittana Foundation underwrites need-based scholarships and loans for high-achieving students in the developing world – eliminating barriers to education and providing a path to meaningful, productive employment. Vittana builds on the success of microlending ventures like Kiva.org, delivering rich, Web-based, person-to-person microfinance in partnership with an international network of MFI and educational institutions. ...

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Heather Fleming - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Heather Fleming is the founder of Catapult Design, which helps foundations and non-profits apply design thinking to global development. Here Fleming discusses some of the breakthrough design projects she's working on, including a low-cost wind turbine capable of generating enough electricity to charge a cell phone or power LED lighting in Guatemala, where 75 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. ...

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Brian McCarthy - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Brian McCarthy is Founder and CEO of PFNC, a manufacturer and provider of affordable housing. The company converts surplus U.S. shipping containers into residences for the 1.1 million laborers who work in Maquiladoras, México. PFNC utilizes recycled and other affordable building materials to deliver deeded homes for under $10,000 per unit – providing residents with improved safety and sanitation, while also enabling wealth creation....

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Nathan Sigworth and Taylor Thompson - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellows - video

N. Taylor Thompson and Nathan Sigworth are co-founders of PharmaSecure, a for-profit start up with a breakthrough solution to the $50+ billion, global pharmaceutical counterfeiting racket – which kills millions each year. Learn more about their work, which is focused on the 5 billion people living in low and middle-income countries particularly susceptible to fake or sub-standard pharmaceuticals....

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Tshewang Dendup - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Bhutan's recent transition from an absolute monarchy to democracy has created unfathomable new choices and opportunities for the Bhutanese – and exposed the daunting challenges that lie ahead for the world's youngest democracy. Tshewang Dendup plans to help his compatriots seize this historic moment by providing them with hands-on training in business and computer skills, journalism/filmmaking and hospitality. Bhutan Broadcasting Service...

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Tevis Howard - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Tevis Howard founded KOMAZA to help end extreme poverty for rural Kenyan families living in arid landscapes. The organization partners with poor families to plant high-profit commercial tree farms that generate life-changing income and help preserve indigenous biodiversity....

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Priti Radhakrishnan - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Priti is Co-Director of Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a team of lawyers and scientists working to strengthen patent systems and encourage innovation in new medicines, while expanding broad access to the best and latest treatments. Learn more about how the organization strengthens patent examination and selectively exposes unmerited pharmaceutical patents – which drive up the cost of essential drugs and prevent them from reaching poor patients in need....

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Melanie Edwards - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Melanie Edwards launched Mobile Metrix to identify and serve the world's one billion "invisible" people. The market research and distribution company connects those at the base of the pyramid to critical products and services – including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, voting registration and job training. Mobile Metrix also develops, administers and analyzes surveys for corporations, governments, NGOs, foundations and local communities....

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Erik Hersman - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Erik Hersman is an innovator and technologist focused on advancing the use of technology as an empowerment tool in the developing world. He is a co-founder of Ushahidi – a free, open source, Web / mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping crisis information in near real time – and he also runs afrigadget.com and whiteafrican.com, two prominent online communities generating creative solutions to Africa's development challenges. ...

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Abby Falik - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Abby Falik is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), which aims to institutionalize a global service "gap year" for young Americans between high school and college – fundamentally transforming how they understand and act on their responsibilities as global citizens. In partnership with universities and NGOs, GCY will train, support, and engage a diverse nationwide corps before, during and after their service term....

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Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha are key principals behind Husk Power Systems (HPS), a for-profit company that's created a proprietary technology to cost-effectively convert rice husks into electricity. The organization utilizes this technology in the production and operation of 35-100 kW mini power plants that deliver pay-for-use electricity – and dramatically improved lives – to inhabitants of un-electrified villages in India's "Rice Belt." ...

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Erik Dawson - Pop!Tech 2008 Fellow - video

Eric Dawson launched Peace Games in the early 90s to address sky-rocketing youth homicide rates. Peace Games has already reached 40,000 children and families in five states and is focused on changing school cultures – teaching students the conflict resolution and peacemaking skills critical to create a safe learning environment. ...

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Gary Slutkin - Pop!Tech 2008 - video

After spending years in Africa fighting AIDS, TB and cholera with the W.H.O., Gary Slutkin returned to Chicago and had an epiphany: the violence plaguing his hometown exhibited all the signs of an infectious disease. Learn how he's applied epidemiological principles to reduce shootings and violent crime in inner-city Chicago neighborhoods by as much as 75%....

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