Podcast: TED Talks series - Stewart Brand: 4 Environmental 'Heresies'

TED Talks
Initial Publication Date: July 12, 2015

Summary

16:42 minutes

TED Talks series, FILMED JUN 2009 - POSTED JUL 2009 - TED@State

The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s, Stewart Brand, has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate.

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Brand opens up discussion about cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.

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This material can be used to expand thinking on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.

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Since the counterculture Sixties, Stewart Brand has been a critical thinker and innovator who helped lay the foundations of our internetworked world. Full Bio >>

Citation

Talks, T. (2012). Podcast: TED Talks series - Stewart Brand: 4 Environmental 'Heresies'.