SiTU Playlist of the week

Should we redesign humans? (8 talks)

Don't Panic: The Truth About Population

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_kn45qIvI&feature=player_embedded

We live in a world of relentless change. Huge migrations of people to new mega-cities filling soaring skyscrapers and vast slums, ravenous appetites for fuel and food, unpredictable climate change... and all this in a world where the population is still growing. Should we be worried, should we be scared, and how to make sense of it all?

30 years of TED (17 talks)

The first TED was held in 1984 -- and the next TED starts on Monday. Watch the world change over three decades in this nearly year-by-year playlist. Watch »

Hitler, Stalin and Mr. Jones

2012

  http://vimeo.com/77274668

In this film George Carey is searching for a site of murder which took place in Inner Mongolia, Northern China, nearly 80 years ago. The only video of the man who died is just a few seconds taken at a meeting with Adolf Hitler. The murdered man was a brilliant Welsh journalist called Gareth Jones. He was trying to find out what the Japanese army was plotting in China.

Unwasted: The Future of Business on Earth

2011

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrF4QAVjyM&feature=player_embedded

There is no waste in nature. When a tree falls it's only halfway through its life. When a bear or animal finishes eating food and processes it in its body that becomes fertilizer for future life in the forest flora.
So it's a beautiful thing the way nature has worked this all out. There is no waste in nature; the human animal is in fact the only animal on the planet to create waste that nature cannot process.