Videos tagged "environment"

Robin Nagle
Anthropologist of New York City's sanitation workers
Tags: culture, environment
Posted: 08/04/09 | Recorded at Gel 2009
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Listening to New York City sanitation workers - and working side-by-side with them - NYU professor Robin Nagle uncovered a wealth of knowledge about the job and the people who keep the city clean.

Nagle also talks about our relationship with trash - and why we might want to respect, maybe even love, what we leave behind. This is an anthropological study well worth learning from.

See also:

Video featuring Robin Nagle on Fresh Kills landfill

Chris Jordan at Gel 2007, visualizing the amount of trash generated by modern society

Graham Hill
Founder, Treehugger
Tags: environment, food
Posted: 07/23/09 | Recorded at Gel 2009

Three easy steps to reduce your carbon footprint: Graham Hill delivers a simple, straightforward, and, yes, achievable path to cutting our impact in half. He also reveals the number of showers equivalent to a pound of beef.

Chris Jordan
Photographer
Tags: art, culture, design, environment
Posted: 01/13/09 | Recorded at Gel 2007

America's scale of consumption is beyond the reach of any camera... unless Chris Jordan is standing behind it. His work combines photography, information visualization, and wry commentary on the culture and environment. One of the all-time most popular Gel talks.

See more at Chris Jordan's website, or via the Seadragon iPhone app.