WaterNotes

It was well over a year ago that I first heard Dan Barber, an immense figure in the foodie and chef sustainability circles, expound the virtues of foie gras “with integrity”. At this year’s TED he spoke on a topic even closer to home – sustainable seafood – and a particular fish that he [...]

By drawing some deep parallels and contrasts between humans and animals Professor Robert Sapolsky makes some fascinating connections in this talk filmed at Stanford University and highlighted by TED’s Best of the Web feature earlier this week.  I particularly loved the mention of stickleback behavior (of course) but the final thoughts on culture – as [...]

Margaret Wertheim and her sister started creating crochet reefs as a response to the overwhelming press of climate change back in 2005. Earlier this year at TED she demonstrated these reefs and gave a beautiful explanation of the special geometry that helps create corals and other underwater denizens as well as crochet arts. [...]

The 2009 TED talks continue to roll out and I was blown away by the presentation from Willie Smits on his twenty-year project to restore and regrow rainforest in Borneo. As he tells it, it all began with an orphaned orangutan near death in a cage. Despite several hundred rescues of orangutans Smitts [...]

I heard rumors from TEDsters that there was a talk on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch presented just a few weeks back for the 2009 meeting. Excitingly, TED chose to post the video almost immediately.
Capt. Charles Moore’s presentation is short but effective in my opinion. He brings up keys points, like: [...]