TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Alexander Voigt began research and development of stand-alone photovoltaic in 1985 when there was no market for the field of renewable energy. Today he enables whole energy economies, which are based 100 percent on renewables and therefore CO2 free.
How emerges criminal energy? By any little decision a criminal makes, says German Profiler and book author Axel Petermann. He needs no witness report, he affirms, but just to read the offenders acts.
Benedikt Foit and Habib Lesevic take climate protection as a game. Their Project Energy Streetfight is a playfully approach to the problem of global warming. Biggest enemy: homo consumensis.
Daniela Schiffer helps people make their own energy. The co-founder of the German startup changers.com explains why protecting climate is as hard as stop smoking – and how men nevertheless do have fun with it.
His pictures went around the world: J Henry Fair ist photgrapher, ecological activist and he is best known for his Industrial Scars series, in which he researches the worlds most aweful enviromental desasters. At TEDxBerlin he showed…
John Perry Barlow joined TedxBerlin via skype live from the US. Inspired by the speaches before he affirmed that there is no energy source more powerful and sustainable than hope. And he explains how climate protection starts with an…
Why can’t Nigeria be like Norway? With 20 years experience in and around the oil industry journalist and consultant Johnny West claims a simple policy tool, that can switch the situation of countries in which natural resources are produced…
Katherine Lucey is the Founder and CEO of Solar Sister. After 20 years as an investment banker with experience in the energy sector, Katherine turned her attention to find a sustainable solution to the energy poverty.
Lehna Malmkvist believes in a world in which men live integrated in their ecosystem. In Victoria BC Canada she already established a little oasis of her vision.
Do you do what you want to do? Or just what your employment contract says? Do you do, what your mum expects you to do? What your friends want you to do? What society makes you to do? Martin Cordesmeier’s company Millionways helps people…
A lamp you can inspect how much the sun has shone the day it was produced? Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler from Vienna produce design products, furniture and installations by solar energy. Their Designs are smart and extraordinary.
Nik Nowak has got a passion for the physical experience of bass. The artist studiend in Berlin, New York and Shanghai. His work shows the energy of sound – and its function as a weapon.
Management consultant Nils Lindell and his family set out to reduce their CO2-footprint from the Swedish average of about 7 tons per person and year to the one ton that will be required in the not too far future. An ordinary family in an…
Rune Nielson sets new boundaries combining human communication and interaction design. He is no magician, he promises. Still making the unsvisible visible...
Magician and hypnotist Thimon von Berlepsch disclosed some of his most secret tricks @TEDxBerlin 2011. And he showed one thing, that just seems unbelievable.
Verena Delius is CEO of Young Internet, Europe’s leading social gaming company since 2010. But best thing to do, she says, is to watch your own company perish.
Low energy, high comfort: Wolfgang Kessling is director of clima engeneering company Transsolar. His motto: Make the buildings better so they have reduced energy demand. He shows how sun can be the most effective cooling system in the desert.
Nik Nowak’s wall paintings and sound objects have made him internationally renowned and he has exhibited his work in museums and galleries in Germany, Austria, Russia and China. His most recent work ’Panzer’, a combination of a…
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