分类目录归档：water
So if I told you that this was the face of pure joy,
would you call me crazy?
I wouldn't blame you,
because every time I look at this Arctic selfie, I shiver just a little bit.
I want to tell you a li
Chris Anderson: Perhaps we could start by just telling us about your country.
It's three dots there on the globe. Those dots are pretty huge.
I think each one is about the size of California.
Tell us
Ten years ago,
I had my first exhibition here.
I had no idea if it would work or was at all possible,
but with a few small steps and a very steep learning curve,
I made my first sculpture, called "The
Our grandparents' generation created an amazing system
of canals and reservoirs that made it possible
for people to live in places where there wasn't a lot of water.
For example, during the Great Depr
I believe that the secret to producing extremely drought-tolerant crops,
which should go some way to providing food security in the world,
lies in resurrection plants,
pictured here, in an extremely d
I'm here today to talk to you about a very powerful little word,
one that people will do almost anything
to avoid becoming.
Billion-dollar industries thrive
because of the fear of it,
and those of us
Every summer, my family and I travel across the world,
3,000 miles away
to the culturally diverse country of India.
Now, India is a country infamous for its scorching heat and humidity.
For me, the on
In March 2017,
the mayor of Cape Town officially declared Cape Town a local disaster,
as it had less than four months left of usable water.
Residents were restricted to 100 liters of water per person,
You may know this feeling:
you wake up to multiple unread notifications on your mobile phone.
Your calendar is already packed with meetings,
sometimes double- or triple-booked.
You feel engaged, you f
Good evening, welcome to New Orleans.
I don't know if you knew this,
but you are sitting within 15 minutes of one of the largest rivers in the world:
the Mississippi river.
Old Man River, Big Muddy.
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