Clean Energy Economy Forum: Energy Security

A panel of experts and officials discuss energy security as part of the Clean Energy Economy Forum. July 27, 2010.

Naomi Klein - Addicted to risk

http://www.ted.com Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BPs risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, were left to clean up a mess afterward. Kleins question: Whats the backup plan?

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the worlds leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the Sixth Sense wearable tech, and Lost producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. 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 http://www.ted.com/translate.

Barack Obama: Leadership on energy

Barack Obama speaks on energy issues in Portsmouth, NH

Clean technology Bigger than the Internet?

Fortune magazine environmental reporter Marc Gunther lays out five reasons why he thinks the inevitable evolution to a clean technology economy will be a bigger change than the advent of the Internet.