Speed & Scale
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How a Louisiana community came together to take down a petrochemical plant
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the heart of Louisiana, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, more than 150 petrochemical plants spew huge amounts of carbon into our atmosphere—a...
How Copenhagen’s “food schools” are promoting sustainable eating habits
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food production makes up about 12% of our global emissions—that comes not only from the kinds of food we eat (like beef, which is one of the highest...
How you can fly more sustainably (today!)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The aviation industry is responsible for 3.5% of the world’s carbon emissions. That may seem like a small number globally, but this is a big problem...
How a special seaweed is lowering methane emissions—one cow burp at a time
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that cows emit methane when they burp? Livestock account for over 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but farmers and scientis...
How Stripe (yes, the payment platform) is leading the charge for carbon removal
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even if we do everything we need to do to limit our carbon emissions—curb deforestation, stop driving so many miles, clean up our power grids—we s...
How employers in Washington State solved a transportation crisis
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much time do you spend commuting to and from work in your car? And do you drive alone? In the US, the transportation sector emits more carbon poll...
How two Girl Scouts started the fight against deforestation in Indonesia
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, Indonesia’s forests were being decimated due to a big spike in palm oil production…until two Girl Scouts decided to get involved. A...
The last coal plant shut down in England. Now what?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know the UK just closed its last coal plant? Hooray! But after taking a moment to celebrate, Ryan and Anjali reflect on what to do about natur...
How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the surprising story of how Texas – rich in oil and gas – became America's biggest producer of wind energy. For our first episode, Ryan an...
Making Cents Out of Watts: What’s Driving Up Your Energy Bills? | Climate One
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode of a podcast we think you'll love, Climate One. A third of Americans say that they've skipped food, medicine, or something else to ...
Coming September 22nd, 2025: Speed & Scale
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coming September 22nd, 2025: Speed & ScaleTED has a new podcast.Here’s a new climate story: the biggest solutions to our climate crisis exist al...
Decarbonizing aviation (from Climate Rising)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode from our friends at the Climate Rising podcast.This episode in our hard-to-abate series features aviation expert Robin Riedel, a Pa...
TED Climate: This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life | Tara Djokic
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exactly when and where did life on Earth begin? Scientists have long thought that it emerged three billion years ago in the ocean — until astrobiolo...
TED Climate: How to build an equitable and just climate future | Peggy Shepard
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has the right to a clean environment — but major disparities exist when it comes to who faces the consequences of pollution. Environmental ...
TED Climate: The future of fashion — made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your closet is likely full of all kinds of materials — leather, cotton, nylon and polyester, to name a few — that contribute to fashion's sustaina...
TED Climate: How we could eat real meat without harming animals | Isha Datar
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could eat chicken nuggets without harming a chicken? It's possible through "cellular agriculture," says Isha Datar. In a talk about cuttin...
TED Climate: Where on Earth will people live in the future? | Parag Khanna
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the return of nomadic living to a climate-disrupted world, author and global strategist Parag Khanna has some predictions for humanity. Get a fas...
TED Climate: The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster | Bill Gates
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The single most important thing for avoiding a climate disaster is cutting carbon pollution from the current 51 billion tons per year to zero, says ph...
TED Climate: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | Clover Hogan
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's youth have inherited a big, unprecedented climate problem to solve — and the eco-anxiety to go with it. Gen-Zer and activist Clover Hogan k...
The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast: Green holidays, without being a Grinch
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode from a show we think you might like: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast.Holiday shopping season is upon us, but instead of having a was...
Sold Out: Rethinking Housing In America is back with an all new season.
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The third season of Sold Out examines the intersection of the climate and housing crises. Hosted by Erin Baldassari, the series tells the stories of f...
The Big Switch, Part 1: A Crisis in the Making
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TED Climate will be back soon -- in the meantime here is an episode of another podcast we thought you'd enjoy.This is the first episode of a five-part...
Outrage + Optimism: Why It's "Not Too Late" with Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not Too Late, written by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, offers us the tools to tackle this current wave of disinformation, and provides ...
TED Climate: The future of the food ecosystem -- and the power of your plate | Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people across the world don't have access to healthy food -- while in other places tons of food go to waste. Social entrepreneur Ndidi Okonkwo Nw...
TED Climate: The tragedy of air pollution -- and an urgent demand for clean air | Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Breathing clean air is every child's human right," says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seve...
TED Climate: How wind energy could power Earth ... 18 times over | Dan Jørgensen
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two decades, the wind power industry has grown at a dizzying pace. (Fun fact: a single rotation from one of the world's most powerful wi...
TED Climate: How to provide cooling for everyone -- without warming the planet | Rachel Kyte
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The way we cool things down is heating the planet even more," says sustainable development expert Rachel Kyte -- and the solutions go well beyond jus...
TED Climate: Woolly pigs, high tech and other ingenious ways to take carbon out of the air | Gabrielle Walker
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change? They're part of a vital, ingenious and evolving strategy to take carbon out of the sky and store i...
TED Climate: How to realistically decarbonize the oil and gas industry | Bjørn Otto Sverdrup
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bjørn Otto Sverdrup leads the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), which gathers the CEOs of twelve of the world's largest oil and gas companies ar...
TED Climate: Language shouldn't be the barrier to climate action | Sophia Kianni
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most scientific literature is written only in English, creating an alarming knowledge gap for the 75 percent of the world who don't speak it. That's a...
TED Climate: The dreams and details of a green shipping revolution | Jim Hagemann Snabe
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As chairman of the world's largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and the impact...
TED Climate: A vision of sustainable housing for all of humanity | Vishaan Chakrabarti
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By 2100, the UN estimates that the world's population will grow to just over 11 billion people. Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti wants us to start thinki...
TED Climate: Community investment is the missing piece of climate action | Dawn Lippert
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's been explosive investment in new technologies aimed at decarbonizing the planet. But climate investor Dawn Lippert says something key is missi...
TED Climate: It's impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet | Shweta Narayan
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The doctrine of "first, do no harm" is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath, one of the world's oldest codes of ethics. It governs the work of physicians...
TED Climate: An action plan for solving the climate crisis | John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it's cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?" asks engineer and investor John D...
TED Climate: The crucial intersection of climate and capital | Nili Gilbert
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be "cleaned" without havi...
TED Climate: Tracking the whole world's carbon emissions -- with satellites and AI | Gavin McCormick
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What we know today about global greenhouse gas emissions is mostly self-reported by countries, and those numbers (sometimes tallied manually on paper!...
TED Climate: How small countries can make a big impact on climate change | Nicola Sturgeon
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to tackling climate change, the size of a country doesn't matter -- it's their ambition that counts, says First Minister of Scotland Nic...
TED Climate: How to make radical climate action the new normal | Al Gore
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try, says Nobel...
Introducing: Guardians of the River
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're featuring a preview of a new show you might enjoy: Guardians of the River, the winner of the 2021 Best Narrative Nonfiction Podcast Award ...
TED Climate: A new perspective on the journey to net-zero | Amina J. Mohammed
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate action can be a vehicle to deliver dignity, opportunity and equality for all. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed invites us to reim...
TED Climate: The fastest way to slow climate change | Ilissa Ocko
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term," says atmospheric scientist Ilissa...
TED Climate: Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges? | Hongqiao Liu
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 -- a change that...
TED Climate: How much clean electricity do we really need? | Solomon Goldstein-Rose
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To fight climate change, we need to clean up the global electricity system by replacing fossil fuel power plants with clean generation -- right? Clima...
TED Climate: The global treaty to phase out fossil fuels | Tzeporah Berman
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry continues to ...
TED Climate: The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport | Monica Araya
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The roadmap to ending pollution from transportation is here, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anders...
TED Climate: The 15-minute city | Carlos Moreno
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to change tha...
TED Climate: Women and girls, you are part of the climate solution | Rumaitha Al Busaidi
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does gender equality have to do with climate change? A lot more than you might think. Empowering women and girls around the world is one of the m...
TED Climate: A roadmap for young changemakers | Melati Wijsen
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Activism is a tough job, especially for young people yearning for immediate change -- something climate activist Melati Wijsen has learned over ten ye...
TED Climate: Got (sustainable) milk?
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Agriculture has enabled the existence of civilization—today, approximately 40 percent of our planet is farmland. So it goes without saying there’s...
TED Climate: Can 100% renewable energy power the world?
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oil: The prehistoric source of fuel that could drive us all into extinction. We need to pivot to renewable sources of energy, like water, wind and sol...
TED Climate: What if there were 1 trillion more trees on the planet?
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trees have proven to decrease carbon in our atmosphere, keep cities clean, and even reduce anxiety … but how exactly do they do it? Dan takes us beh...
TED Climate: The secret lives of things you own
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THINGS. They’re everywhere! And we’re constantly being pushed to buy more of them, like the hottest fashion or the latest tech. But the true cost ...
TED Climate: How to make sense of extreme weather
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From raging wildfires in Australia to sub-zero winter storms in Texas, we’re seeing a rise in extreme weather across the globe. But how can we tell ...
TED Climate: Are we the next asteroid?
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So, in the list of bad actors for the planet there's been the ice age, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, and then … us? Yeah, it really looks ...
TED Climate: What happens to the plastic you throw away?
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Plastic is everywhere. We know we should cut down on it where we can, but is plastic ever the answer? In this episode, a whole world of plastic you ne...
TED Climate: The US is back in the Paris Agreement. What’s next? | John Kerry and Al Gore
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On his first day as president, Joe Biden signed a letter of acceptance that set in motion the 30-day process for the United States to re-join the Pari...
TED Climate: To save the climate, we have to reimagine capitalism | Rebecca Henderson
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Business is screwed if we don't fix climate change," says economist Rebecca Henderson. In this bold talk, she describes how unchecked capitalism dest...
TED Climate: How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything | John Doerr and Hal Harvey
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The good news is it's now clearly cheaper to save the planet than to ruin it," says engineer and investor John Doerr. "The bad news is: we are fast r...
TED Climate: The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change | Rose M. Mutiso
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this perspective-shifting talk, energy researcher Rose M. Mutiso makes the case for prioritizing Africa's needs with what's left of the world's car...
TED Climate: Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it | Sophie Howe
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Howe is the world's only future generations commissioner, a new kind of government official tasked with advocating for the interests of generat...
TED Climate: Amazon's climate pledge: to be net-zero by 2040 | Dave Clark and Kara Hurst
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Amazon signed the Climate Pledge, a commitment to become a net-zero carbon business by 2040. Dave Clark, Amazon's chief of consumer retail, a...
TED Climate: Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030 | Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Under the leadership of Lisa Jackson, Apple's environment and social VP and former head of the EPA, the company is already carbon neutral within their...
TED Climate: How to be a good ancestor | Roman Krznaric
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our descendants own the future, but the decisions and actions we make now will tremendously impact generations to come, says philosopher Roman Krznari...
TED Climate: The case for stubborn optimism on climate | Christiana Figueres
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This decade is a moment of choice unlike any we have ever lived," says Christiana Figueres, the architect of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement. The d...
TED Climate: Our moral imperative to act on climate change -- and 3 steps we can take | His Holiness Pope Francis
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican Ci...
TED Climate: Prince William | This decade calls for Earthshots to repair our planet
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We start this new decade knowing that it is the most consequential period in history," says Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. Inspired by Presid...
TED Climate: The race to a zero emissions world starts now | António Guterres
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If we don’t act now on climate change, this coming century may be one of humanity’s last, says António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United ...
TED Climate: The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity | Thomas Crowther
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The secret to using trees to fight climate change is knowing which ones to plant, and where. Ecologist Thomas Crowther — setting the record straight...
TED Climate: Make your actions on climate reflect your words | Severn Cullis-Suzuki
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"History has shown us that in moments of crisis, society can truly transform," says environmental educator Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Nearly 30 years ago, ...
TED Climate: 10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet | Johan Rockström
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“For the first time, we are forced to consider the real risk of destabilizing the entire planet,” says climate impact scholar Johan Rockström. In...
TED Climate: Europe’s plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent | Ursula von der Leyen
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the ambitious goal of becoming the first carbon-free continent by 2050, the European Union has committed to creating a greener world for future g...
TED Climate: Environmental justice is racial justice | David Lammy
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why has there been so little mention of saving Black lives from the climate emergency? For too long, racial justice efforts have been distinguished fr...
TED Climate: How cities are detoxing transportation | Monica Araya
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People around the world are demanding clean air -- and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a w...
TED Climate: Introducing Countdown
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Countdown: an exciting new global initiative from TED to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into ac...