Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair (environmental video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: George Steinmetz’s spectacular photos show Africa from the air, taken from the world’s slowest, lightest aircraft. Join Steinmetz to discover the surprising historical, ecological and sociopolitical patterns that emerge when you go low and slow in a flying lawn chair.

What a planet needs to sustain life (environmental video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: “Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right,” says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why? In this pleasantly humorous talk, Brain explores the fascinating science behind what it takes for a planet to host life — and why humanity may just be in the right place at the right time when it comes to the timeline of life-sustaining planets.

For the love of birds (environmental video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: From the glorious crested guinea fowl to the adulterous African jacana to vultures that can pick a zebra carcass clean in 30 minutes, Washington Wachira wants us all to get to know the marvelous species of birds that share the planet with us. If you’re not already a fan of earth’s feathermakers — or concerned about their conservation — you will be after you watch this delightful talk.
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What are animals thinking and feeling? (environmental video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: What’s going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they’re thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories of whales, wolves, elephants and albatrosses to argue that just as we think, feel, use tools and express emotions, so too do the other creatures – and minds – that share the Earth with us.
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One person can indeed make a huge difference (environmental video)

Watch as teenager, Jadav Payeng, whose island home on Majuli, India, saved his rapidly sinking island home.

The stunning beauty of our insect world (environmental video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Photographer Levon Biss was looking for a new, extraordinary subject when one afternoon he and his young son popped a ground beetle under a microscope and discovered the wondrous world of insects. Applying his knowledge of photography to subjects just five millimeters long, Biss created a process for shooting insects in unbelievable microscopic detail. He shares the resulting portraits — each comprised of 8- to 10,000 individual shots — and a story about how inspiration can come from the most unlikely places.
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Does your child (or grandchild) have a world-changing message for adults? (environmental video)

From the We Your Children YouTube channel: An Urgent Message From Your Children is a Public Service Video Series featuring children speaking in their own words to adults, expressing their fears, concerns and their hopes for the future of our planet, and making an appeal to all of us to respond with appropriate urgency.

Go to https://WeYourChildren.org to add your own video today!

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How Plants Communicate and Think (nature documentary)

You might be amazed watching this beautiful nature documentary.

Nature is everywhere - we just need to learn to see it (environmental video)

For the TED.com YouTube channel: How do you define “nature?” If we define it as that which is untouched by humans, we won’t have any left, says environmental writer Emma Marris. She urges us to consider a new definition of nature — one that includes not only pristine wilderness but also the untended patches of plants growing in urban spaces — and encourages us to bring our children out to touch and tinker with it, so that one day they might love and protect it.

Who Speaks for Earth? (environmental video)

Truer words about the sustainability of our planet have never been spoken. Watch with optimism as Carl Sagan utters the wisdom: “Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

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