Instructional Video13:33
TED Talks

TED: What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko

12th - Higher Ed
Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is...
Instructional Video7:03
TED Talks

TED: A vision for sustainable energy in Africa | Chibeze Ezekiel

12th - Higher Ed
Africa needs new energy sources to fuel its development, but the continent should invest in renewable energy instead of cheap, polluting alternatives like coal, says climate inclusion activist Chibeze Ezekiel. He tells the story of how...
Instructional Video10:58
TED Talks

TED: How wind energy could power Earth ... 18 times over | Dan Jørgensen

12th - Higher Ed
Over the last two decades, the wind power industry has grown at a dizzying pace. (Fun fact: a single rotation from one of the world's most powerful wind turbines can generate enough electricity to charge more than 1,400 cell phones.)...
Instructional Video13:48
TED Talks

TED: How to realistically decarbonize the oil and gas industry | Bjørn Otto Sverdrup

12th - Higher Ed
Bjørn Otto Sverdrup leads the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), which gathers the CEOs of twelve of the world's largest oil and gas companies around an ambitious goal: to get one of the sectors contributing most to climate change to...
Instructional Video6:48
TED Talks

Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil

12th - Higher Ed
As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and necessary move away from oil....
Instructional Video14:28
TED Talks

TED: The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy | Amar Inamdar

12th - Higher Ed
There's an energy revolution happening in villages and towns across Africa -- off-grid solar energy is becoming a viable alternative to traditional electricity systems. In a bold talk about a true leapfrog moment, Amar Inamdar introduces...
Instructional Video14:23
TED Talks

Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the type of future in store for us if we don't significantly cut our greenhouse gas...
Instructional Video4:50
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill McKibben - Climate Change

Higher Ed
Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more...
Instructional Video20:13
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Ottmar Edenhofer: Managing the Global Commons 4/5

Higher Ed
Ottmar Edenhofer, Designated Director, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) at the panel entitled "Managing the Global Commons: Growth, Inequality, and New Thinking for Sustainable Economics" at the...
Instructional Video20:24
The Wall Street Journal

BP Chief Executive on Net Zero Targets

Higher Ed
Bernard Looney, BP's CEO, on how energy companies are responding to energy goals set by government and investors.
Instructional Video14:11
Institute of Human Anatomy

The Science Behind Creatine: Benefits, Safety, and Athletic Performance

Higher Ed
This video explains what creatine is, how it works in the body, and whether it is safe and effective for increasing athletic performance. It covers topics such as how creatine is synthesized and stored in the body, how it helps provide...
Instructional Video1:14
NASA

A New View of August's Total Solar Eclipse

3rd - 11th
During the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, scientists will use the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite (DSCOVR), along with measurements taken from within the moon's shadow...
Instructional Video7:18
TLDR News

Energy Crisis: Should Britain Just Nationalise Energy?

12th - Higher Ed
With energy prices rising across the UK, many have discussed bringing energy back under public ownership. So in this video, we discuss how the British energy system works, a few potential ways it could be nationalised and whether that's...
Instructional Video13:15
TLDR News

Nuclear Power: Should We Use More or Less? - TLDR News

12th - Higher Ed
We asked our audience what they thought about increasing our reliance on nuclear power, so in this video, we're examing the pros and cons of building more nuclear power plants.