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Super Designer Yves Behar
Yves Behar enjoys a kind of celebrity sex appeal that no other industrial designer can claim (who else has thrown condoms at the TED audience?). He's bestowed his aesthetics on the One Laptop Per Child, Herman Miller lighting, a line of green underwear,
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Isabella Rossellini, The Green Porn Star
Ever since she was a child, legendary model and actress Isabella Rossellini has been fascinated and amused by animals and their intricate rituals. Wanting to share her passion with the world through film, she chose a premise no one can say no to. Sex.
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Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel is one of the few people who has both worked at the World Bank, and been tear gassed protesting against it. An activist scholar, and author of Stuffed and Starved, Patel argues that markets are a beautiful thing, but that modern capitalism has
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The Fabulous Beekman Boys
Josh Kilmer Purcell and Brent Ridge were ready to make a run for it, break out of Manhattan and get back to the land, so they literally bought the farm. Tricky part is, they knew nothing about raising crops, tending pigs, or staying afloat as
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Denis Hayes on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
When he was just in his mid-20s, Denis Hayes was made national coordinator of the very first Earth Day. That was forty years ago, and a lot has changed. Over his career as a lawyer, technologist, investor, and advocate, Hayes has watched Earth Day
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Annie Leonard Tells The Story of Stuff
Since Annie Leonard created The Story of Stuff, the short web film has been watched some ten million times. But the twenty-minute film was twenty years in the making. So Leonard decided to write a book, telling the tale of her explorations through the
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Climbing Kilimanjaro to Awaken the World to Water
How do you draw the world's attention to a deadly global scourge? Call up your friends and climb a mountain (it could help if your friends are mega-celebrities and MTV wants to make a film about it.) This is how Kenna set out to illuminate the global
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Blowing up the Kitchen: Homaro Cantu, Star of Future Food on Planet Green
Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator, and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part
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Tom Darden on Making It Right in New Orleans
Image: PBS Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative organization whose cutting-edge designs, sculpted by world-class architects, are both stunning and controversial. Tom Darden is
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It's So Hard to Be Good! John Altschuler, Executive Producer of The Goode Family
For thirteen seasons, King of the Hill cast its lens on a conservative, red meat-loving, pickup-truck driving Texas family. John Altschuler, along with Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge (the team also responsible for Beavis and Butthead and the film Office
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Jason Aramburu on the Promise of Biochar
Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that could save the world. Making biochar generates clean energy, and at the same time sequesters carbon dioxide in a
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Willie Smits on Regrowing the Indonesian Rainforest and Harvesting Biofuels
Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems
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Copenhagen Perspectives: Two TreeHuggers Report Back
The climate summit in Denkmark, known as Cop15, has drawn to a cloudy close. Now it's time to try and make sense of what actually happened, who did what, and how the results will shape our troubled relationship with the planetary climate. This week, two
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Sheila Kennedy and the Portable Light Project
Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the
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Gloria Reuben on the Dirty Lie of Clean Coal
When people describe their first time seeing mountaintop removal coal mining, the response is invariably the same: dropped jaws and sunken hearts. Along with her prolific work in film and television (ER, Raising the Bar), Gloria Reuben is a tireless
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Local Motors: Crowdsourcing the American Car
Image: Local Motors Here's how it works: designers submit their concepts online, the community votes, then Local Motors works with the winners to bring these cars to life. This process, says founder Jay Rogers, has more in common with the way Mozilla
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Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance
A healthy and high-tech green collar economy has been a great promise of the Obama administration. On the front lines of the fight to create green jobs and spur the economy is the Apollo Alliance, an amalgam of labor, business, and environmental groups.
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Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little
Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn't until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio
