Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet.

Building Future Cities interviews creative leaders and entrepreneurs changing our cities for the better.

A series bringing listeners ‘engaging conversations about a vast array of wildlife conservation issues from all across the globe’.

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot,” Prince William calls on us all to rise to our greatest challenge ever: the “Earthshot.” A set of ambitious objectives for the planet, to protect and restore nature, clean the air, revive oceans, build a waste-free world and fix the climate – all in the next decade. Watch his TED Talk here:

This documentary tells the story of author Colin Beavan, who went completely “green,” giving up virtually all of the comforts of modern living – electricity, gas-powered transportation, shipped food and public waste disposal – in a drastic effort to curb his environmental impact.

Years of Living Dangerously, the first series of which was considered “the most important television series ever made”, won an Emmy in 2014 for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. It is a production by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger for National Geographic aimed at raising awareness about the deterioration of nature and severe effects of climate change.

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics. It shows how statistics can be used to solve diverse environmental and socio-economic problems involving food, water, energy scarcity, and climate change risks.

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems” shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind.

Deforestation and desertification, caused by human activities and climate change, have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Vincent Bevins of the Los Angeles Times looks at the work being done in Brazil to address the impact deforestation of the Amazon is having on the world.