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.

Architecture critic Inga Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies and dreams of increased tourism in her TEDxPhilly talk -- "Moving from The Grand Vision to The Grand Adjustment." Cities should instead work to improve and build amenities that make urban areas better places to live for existing dwellers. Public spaces should be a priority.

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun. 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, at .

Barcelona, 18 September 2011. Rajeev Baruah from bioRe, India was one of the expert in the first panel of the Cotton Dialogues 2011. The panel discussed the issue of "Shaping the future of non-GM seed supply". In his views, there is a strong, increasing support on the issue and it is now important to see how to bring this forward. According to Rajeev it is important to undertake global actions where non GM and hybrid seeds are made available to farmers at lower prices. Consumers need also to be involved in this actions and awareness needs to be created in the general public, addressing issues of sustainability, biodiversity and conservation.  

"Most often in architecture school you do get to build the things that you design, but they're at 1/40th of their actual scale. For a group of us this just wasn't enough. We wanted to do something more, something bigger, something real." Spencer Culhane and Julianne Rhodes, students from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and UMass Lowell, are competing as two of the members of Team Massachusetts in the US Department of Energy's Solar Decathalon.

Amy Roberts, Vice President, Government Affairs of Outdoor Industry Association sat down for an interview by Christine Arena of 3BL Media at the 2011 Ceres Conference held May 11th and 12th 2011 in Oakland, CA.  Ms. Roberts addresses the large scale changes companies are going to have to make in their supply chains using the apparel industry as one example. She references their eco-index tool available for free on the Webite.