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5:34
Juliana Machado Ferreira
The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
4:02
Kartick Satyanarayan
How we rescued the "dancing bears"
21:58
Aimee Mullins
The opportunity of adversity
18:38
Liz Coleman
A call to reinvent liberal arts education
16:30
Nalini Nadkarni
Conserving the canopy
6:24
Diane Benscoter
How cults rewire the brain
3:56
Erik Hersman
Reporting crisis via texting
9:58
Aimee Mullins
My 12 pairs of legs
18:00
Louise Fresco
We need to feed the whole world
18:16
Sylvia Earle
My wish: Protect our oceans
7:30
Jacqueline Novogratz
An escape from poverty
16:51
Paul Collier
The "bottom billion"
27:54
Al Gore
New thinking on the climate crisis
25:35
Dave Eggers
My wish: Once Upon a School
19:24
John Francis
Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence
16:40
Nicholas Negroponte
One Laptop per Child, two years on
10:06
Vusi Mahlasela
"Thula Mama"
16:43
Ernest Madu
World-class health care
14:23
Seyi Oyesola
A hospital tour in Nigeria
18:18
Corneille Ewango
A hero of the Congo forest
16:38
Ory Okolloh
How I became an activist
12:34
Katherine Fulton
You are the future of philanthropy
21:56
James Nachtwey
My wish: Let my photographs bear witness
18:36
Majora Carter
Greening the ghetto
23:34
Cameron Sinclair
My wish: A call for open-source architecture
18:35
Phil Borges
Photos of endangered cultures
14:08
Peter Gabriel
Fight injustice with raw video
13:45
Eve Ensler
What security means to me
27:52
Bono
My wish: Three actions for Africa
4:37
Kristen Ashburn
The face of AIDS in Africa
35:28
Bill Strickland
Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope
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