👁The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places
🧠Lei Zhang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Clean energy visionary Lei Zhang loves the Gobi Desert — the most Mars-like place on Earth. Why? Because of the promise it holds to provide the free, abundant solar and wind energy to fuel humanity’s next leap forward. Sharing the story behind one of the world’s largest green hydrogen projects, Zhang shows how Earth’s harshest landscapes could unlock more energy reserves than the world consumes today, and encourages us all to get a little more creative in how we think about the future.
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#renewable_energy #energy #climate_change #technology #sustainability #innovation #future #Countdown

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👁A fresh approach to resolving conflicts
🧠Darya Shaikh
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Conflict is an unavoidable part of any relationship. But what if the point of arguing isn't to win, but rather to grow from the experience? Facilitator Darya Shaikh presents a powerful framework for managing conflicts, showing how you can navigate complex conversations and identify pathways for mutual progress despite differences.
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#collaboration #relationships #communication #community #sustainability #Countdown

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👁A concrete plan for sustainable cement
🧠Ryan Gilliam
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Cement is one of the most-consumed materials on Earth — second only to water — and it accounts for a whopping eight percent of the world's carbon pollution. What if we could turn this climate villain into a hero? Clean tech innovator and serial entrepreneur Ryan Gilliam reveals his company's surprisingly simple process for transforming waste from the cement-making process back into limestone using existing infrastructure, creating a competitive and eco-friendly product that could pave the way for gigaton-scale climate solutions.
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#sustainability #climate_change #environment #pollution #infrastructure #Countdown

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👁A small nation’s surprising solution to unemployment
🧠James Mnyupe
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How did a small, economically vulnerable country become a trailblazer in sustainable industry? Clean economy builder James Mnyupe explores how Namibia is teaming up with partners from around the world to turn sun, wind and water into green hydrogen — a key ingredient in fueling everything from clean steel to eco-friendly transportation. Discover how this bold blueprint is creating jobs, cutting carbon and sparking a wave of African pride and possibility.
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👁The spiritual wisdom we need for a planet in crisis
🧠Tariq Al-Olaimy
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣As cascading climate challenges reshape our world, the most resilient systems are ones we often overlook. Ecological futurist Tariq Al-Olaimy has seen this firsthand in disaster-stricken communities, where church basements, mosque yards and temple networks form a "spiritual infrastructure" that sustains people long before formal aid arrives. Drawing on a decade of work with global faith coalitions, Al-Olaimy explores why spiritual traditions are uniquely equipped to navigate moments of collapse — and how aligning our inner values, economies and ecosystems may be essential to restoring life on a changing planet.
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👁700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that
🧠Jacqueline Novogratz
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz unveils a bold vision to bring off-grid solar electricity to 700 million people still living in darkness, transforming lives while slashing emissions. She asks a thought-provoking question: What if this generation could be remembered for finally bringing electricity — and dignity — to everyone on the planet?
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#solar_energy #philanthropy #climate_change #Africa #electricity #energy #renewable_energy #Countdown #global_issues

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👁Collagen's dirty secret — and its clean future
🧠Fei Luo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣From cosmetics to nutrition, collagen is seemingly everywhere — but we don't often discuss its ethically questionable sources, says chemical engineer Fei Luo. She delves into the groundbreaking technology that uses genetically modified yeast to brew animal-free collagen, a process that could pave the way for a functional, tasty and harm-free future for this crucial protein.
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👁An unexpected plan for peace in the Middle East
🧠Nada Majdalani
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The Middle East is a climate hotspot, with many parts of the region set to experience an increase in temperature by five to eight degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Palestinian peace activist Nada Majdalani discusses how the climate crisis could actually instigate a movement towards peace, unveiling the "Peace Triangle" initiative — a visionary plan to transform conflicts in the Middle East through shared water and energy projects. Drawing on her experience in cross-border environmental collaboration, she offers a glimpse of how economic interdependence between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians could lead to peace.
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👁How to make AI a force for good in climate
🧠Manoush Zomorodi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In a now-famous Go match against a human in 2016, AI made Move 37 — a seemingly nonsensical play that baffled every expert but ultimately won it the match. Amen Ra Mashariki, director of AI at the Bezos Earth Fund, thinks we need AI to make that same kind of creative leap for climate solutions. In conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, he shares a vision for new AI solutions to environmental problems that human experts haven't yet dreamed up.
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#climate_change #Countdown #AI #nature #biodiversity #conservation

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👁The missing piece in climate action (it's not what you think)
🧠Yi Li
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣When entrepreneur Yi Li cofounded Farmworks, she set out to build 1,000 climate-smart farms across Kenya, complete with dams, irrigation and organic fertilizers. The science was sound, but reality proved more complicated. Learn what she discovered about the missing ingredient behind failed climate solutions — and how it challenges a core assumption of the environmental movement on how to create lasting impact.
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👁How to power the world 24/7 — without oil
🧠Cindy Taff
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Deep beneath the Earth sits 50,000 times more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves, but accessing it requires using the same controversial technology that oil companies spent trillions to develop: fracking. Cindy Taff left Shell to prove that drilling for geothermal heat instead of hydrocarbons can deliver what solar, wind and fossil fuels can't — clean, renewable power at all times, regardless of weather. Could this be the breakthrough that finally solves our energy challenges?
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👁The purity test that's killing clean energy
🧠Riddhima Yadav
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Why is it taking so long to finance the climate transition? After years working with the world's largest wealth funds and banks, finance innovator Riddhima Yadav has seen the same pattern: the climate movement is seeking perfection over progress, and starving the very industries that need to transition most. Discover why working with emerging markets and heavy polluters might be the uncomfortable solution to powering a clean future.
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#climate_change #Countdown #finance #renewable_energy #economics #business #money

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👁Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather?
🧠Catherine Nakalembe
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe, director of the NASA Harvest program in Africa, exposes the blind spots that keep life-saving climate intelligence from reaching the communities it's designed to protect — and shares how to turn early warning into early action.
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👁The foods humanity forgot — and how we're bringing them back
🧠Helianti Hilman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Nutritious crops aren't getting to the people who need nutrition most, even in one of the most fertile places on Earth: Indonesia. Exploring some of the forgotten foods from the country's more than 17,000 islands, food entrepreneur Helianti Hillman explains why centering food policy on biodiversity, rather than monoculture, is the key to healthier people and a healthier planet.
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👁The tiny organisms transforming farming
🧠Karsten Temme
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if the solution to feeding humanity has been hiding in the soil for millions of years? Bioengineer Karsten Temme discovered a remarkable answer to this question: for eons, crops relied on soil microbes to convert atmospheric nitrogen into food — until modern farming severed that ancient partnership. He shows how we can reawaken those dormant microbes using gene editing, creating “living fertilizer” that delivers nutrients to crops in real time and transforms farms around the world.
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👁The miraculous device that saved my farm — and changed my life
🧠Josephine Waweru
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Exhausted from carrying water up a hill to keep her small farm in Kenya thriving, Josephine Waweru received an unexpected call that offered a nearly unbelievable solution. She shares how one simple device allowed her crops (and her dreams) to flourish — and offers a glimmer of hope in the face of growing climate uncertainty.
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👁The controversial climate tool funding real change
🧠Sandeep Roy Choudhury
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣If a company plants trees to offset its pollution, is that climate progress — or is it greenwashing? Critics of carbon markets say it’s the latter. But Sandeep Roy Choudhury, who’s spent two decades financing climate projects from rural cookstoves to coastal forests, says the real failure is discouraging companies from even trying. Hear his case for why we shouldn’t let perfection block meaningful action on climate change.
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👁Conservation: a love story
🧠Elsaphan Njora
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if the key to saving nature isn't just about science or policy, but love? Love for the land, for the people who depend on it, for the world we leave behind. Artist Elsaphan Njora has journeyed across Kenya witnessing ecosystems vanish, from Indigenous forests to sacred lakes. But he's also seen communities breathing life back into rivers, forests and coasts in creative, unexpected ways — showing that conservation can flourish alongside livelihoods, and that even the most threatened landscapes can be reborn.
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👁How to make transportation quieter, cleaner and cheaper
🧠Doreen Orishaba
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣When Doreen Orishaba helped build Africa’s first electric car in 2011, skeptics dismissed it as a “toy for the Western world.” Now she’s running dozens of electric buses across Kenya and Rwanda, moving thousands of passengers to work every day on zero-exhaust vehicles powered by near-silent engines. She breaks down what it actually takes to scale clean transport — and why skipping the gas station pit stop is closer than you may think.
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👁A cheat sheet for canceling coal
🧠Kimiko Hirata
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣After the Fukushima disaster shut down Japan's nuclear reactors, the coal industry rushed in to fill the energy gap. As climate advocate Kimiko Hirata watched dozens of new coal plant proposals quietly surface across the country — each one locking in decades of future emissions — she resolved to make them impossible to ignore. She shares how a small, scrappy civil society movement took on a fossil-fuel-dependent economy and got people to say "yes" to a renewable future.
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