Photographer J Henry Fair's talk at TEDxBerlin2011 on November 21st who has applied his considerable talents to photographing "industrial scars." Here he addresses energy and how we are stealing our children's future.  He wants his photographs to move people, to motivate them to change thier behavior.

Please visit www.tedxberlin.de and www.jhenryfair.com for further information.

3BL Media's Lorraine Smith caught up with Mitchell Ditkoff President at Idea Champions at the Ethical Sourcing Forum. He discusses challenges such as limiting assumptions when people interact with each other and mental clutter. He addresses what transformation takes and saying yes to being a life-long learner.

The theme of the TEDxTucson December 2011 event was "Innovating Our Green Economy. In his talk "The Failure Of Success", Dr. George Land gives us a brief history of human innovation and talks about the importance of creativity. George Land is an author, speaker, consultant, and general systems scientist. His research ultimately led to the formulation of his Transformation Theory, a theory of transformation that integrates principles of creativity, growth, and change.

In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house -- looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think. Catherine Mohr works on surgical robots and robotic surgical procedures, using robots to make surgery safer.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com.

Being Frugal: The Original Sustainability? - Chris Farrell is a personal finance expert for American Public Media's "Marketplace Money" and contributing economics editor for BusinessWeek.

Frugal has nothing to do with being cheap, it's about being very conscious about the impact of your spending.  

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Chris Hedges author of The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009) gives keynote address at The Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition weeklong series of events leading up to the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009 as a part of the international campaign being organized by 350.org .He points out that Corporations control our politics and the Obama brand in an empire of consumption, rather than production.They will not permit real reform.

David Meslin, Community Catalyst, addresses the question: local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. Meslin encourages we recognize apathy actually as a web of barriers that reinforce disengagement - and that we work together to dismantle the obstacles.