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Nature Is Not a Resource, It’s Our Most Advanced Technology
Stingless bees in the Amazon have been around for millions of years and produce honey that has enormous medical value, Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon…
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Native American Environmental Philosophies and Practices
The tallgrass prairie cannot exist without fire, and some of the most productive food systems in history were designed to feed not just people, but clams, raccoons and birds as…
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Financing Nature Recovery on an Epic Scale
The cheapest way to prevent floods is not concrete, but beavers. That’s because nature isn’t a cost item to be minimized or a luxury to protect once the “real” infrastructure…
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Reviving the Feedback Loops between Nature & People
The universe and a thriving rainforest share the same fundamental mechanism: feedback loops. From that starting point, ecologist Thomas Crowther (ETH Zurich) takes the audience on a journey from “the…
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Unlocking Radical Imagination & Falling in Love with our Human Potential
In their inspiring DLD26 talk, Christabel and Ruby Reed, founders of Advaya, invite the audience to rethink natural ecosystems as webs of relationship. “It’s all about relationships, and ecology is…
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Mushroom Mycelium for Immune Enhancement
What if the secret to surviving the next pandemic isn’t found in a high-tech lab, but in a moldy cantaloupe and the ancient fungi growing on old-growth trees? Fungi are…
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Too Big to Ignore: Nature Risks and Financial Stability
Water scarcity, deforestation, and climate change are not not just environmental concerns – they also pose a severe threat to global economic stability, this DLD26 conversation between Stientje van Veldhoven…
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Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
In their lively and wide-ranging DLD25 conversation, architect Carlo Ratti (MIT Senseable City Lab) and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries) discuss how different forms of intelligence – natural, artificial,…
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Building the Future of Human-centered Technology
In his captivating DLD25 talk, John Werner, CIO of MIT Connection Science and Founder of Ideas in Action, presents his vision for Planet Action Plus, a platform designed to identify…
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Conservation & Tech
Groundbreaking technological innovations for wildlife conservation and biodiversity monitoring take center stage at this DLD25 conversation between tropical biologist Frauke Fischer, entrepreneur Alex Dehgan (Conservation X Labs), and Max Planck…
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How to Start a Movement
The intersection of nature, technology, and human agency takes center stage as Henry Timms (Brunswick Group) and transformation scholar Maja Göpel explore how to start effective social movements in a…
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The North Pole – History of an Obsession
The North Pole has long been a place of imagination, mystery, and human obsession, captivating locals and explorers for thousands of years. In his DLD25 talk, renowned explorer Erling Kagge…
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Why We Need Open Science
Science without paywalls is not a nice-to-have but the engine of innovation, economic growth, and planetary survival, Kamila Markram, CEO of science platform Frontiers, argues in her DLD26 conversation with journalist Jennifer Schenker (The Innovator). Markram traces the founding of Frontiers back...
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