From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

As executive director of WildlifeDirect, 2009 PopTech Fellow Paula Kahumbu is building a global wildlife conservation community that connects conservationists and their supporters through blogs and direct funding. The goal: a movement powerful enough to reverse catastrophic species loss in Afric...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Blending the line between art and engineering, this Dutch visual artist creates “life” in the form of “animals” that walk the beach in the Netherlands, and, to the delight of PopTechers, the stage and streets of Camden, Maine

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

As co-founder and editor of WorldChanging.com, Alex Steffen sees the biggest barriers to building a sustainable planet as political, not technological. Here, he offers an actionable task list of challenges, ideas, products and services to help dematerialize the world.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Bill Shannon dances — on four legs. Born with a bilateral hip deformity, this ingenious performance artist’s work will challenge your notions of disability.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Get inspired by Richard Alley’s optimistic view on global warming. This world-renowned paleoclimatologist does have some bad news about climate change, although he’ll convince you that we not only have the tools to solve the problem, but we can make money doing it too.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Hailed by The Australian as the country’s best modern dance company, choreographer Gideon Obarzanek’s Chunky Move dazzles audiences with its use of site-specific installations and interactive sound and light technologies. Obarzanek’s avant-garde performances explore the tensions between the rati...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Activist Van Jones is tackling two of our biggest problems—urban poverty and environmental peril—with a fresh, dynamic plan. His vision for providing America’s poor with “green jobs instead of jails” touts a Green Revolution that includes everyone.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Erica Williams’s passionate generational call, musician Zee Avi’s bright lyrics, artist Chris Jordan’s stunning albatross photos, Mayor John Fetterman on his town isn’t, and kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin on the movement of light.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Environmental journalist Mark Lynas reports from his global tour of climate change hotspots – documenting the dramatic effects that even one degree of global warming may have around the world.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Artist, photographer and inventor Clifford Ross demonstrates some of the magnificent images from his invention, the R2. It’s the highest-resolution 360-degree high-definition camera array ever built. He’s using it to shoot his current project—the vast, undisturbed wetlands ecosystem of Brazil’s ...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Renewable bamboo, coconut waste and sawdust aren’t usually used as fuels for factories, but in the northeast Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, ecological expert Stefano Merlin is pushing local factories to do just that. Leading a major fuel-switching initiative that blends social and environmental ...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Equal parts artist, writer and joke teller, Jessica Hagy describes her work as “a little project that helps me make fun of some things and sense of others.” Watch how the creator of the wildly popular blog, Indexed, injects humanity, humor and a modern sensibility into her medium—the 3 × 5-inch ...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Christian Nold thinks we should pay more attention to how our environment shapes our emotional and physiological states. His work with Bio Mapping—which measures people’s responses to their environment and connects those feelings to their physical location—suggests that a map of emotional landsca...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Blaine Brownell is an architect obsessed with sustainable building materials. He introduces a wonderful world of products made from repurposed materials and provides a glimpse of what a post-fossil fuel world might look like.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Musician, producer and artist Brian Eno shows how simple things can give rise to complex things—in art and life. See how he uses Darwin’s ecological model of the world as a roadmap for human culture now and in the future.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Musician, producer and artist Brian Eno shows how simple things can give rise to complex things—in art and life. See how he uses Darwin’s ecological model of the world as a roadmap for human culture now and in the future.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:36 PM

Join polar scientist John Priscu – and his autonomous robots – as he takes us miles below the Antarctic ice to search for living organisms that may have been cut off from the rest of the planet’s ecosystem for millions of years.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:35 PM

In a stirring performance, slam poet and visual artist Vanessa German imagines the things she could accomplish if her hands were two shooting stars or a raucous jazz quintet.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:35 PM

Inventor, engineer and MacArthur Genius Grant-winner, Saul Griffith thought he was an eco-prude until he audited his total power consumption and learned he burns three times the energy as the average European. So, he developed Wattzon.com, a free, online tool we can use to gauge our energy footp...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:35 PM

As artistic director of the New York-based performance and media ensemble The Builders Association, Marianne Weems shows us how she puts technology at center stage to extend the boundaries of contemporary theater.