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How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom | Julia Watson

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. In her global exploration of Indigenous design systems, architect Julia Watson researches enduring innovations that could help us counter the challenges of climate change. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, Watson introduces us to…

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In her global exploration of Indigenous design systems, architect Julia Watson researches enduring innovations that could help us counter the challenges of climate change. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, Watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions — and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it.

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144 Comments

  1. Scheffanny

    August 21, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    Khasi girl here 🙋…

  2. Christian Williams

    August 21, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    These methods wont work to save our planet. Until we take care of the biggest contributor to the destruction of our planet which is the animal agriculture industry which is the biggest driver of deforestation, the biggest driver for species extinction, the biggest driver of ocean dead zones, and is responsible for more greenhouse gasses that all of the worlds transportation combine, and uses 1/3 of all of our fresh water, and takes up to 45% of all the land on our planet. What you choose to put on your plate three times is the single most important choice to get us out of the climate crisis and more. It is also responsible for our top14 killer of mankind, including our top one which is heart disease.

  3. John Chapman

    August 21, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    Julia Watson is smoking hot.

  4. The 1% Better Podcast

    August 21, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    i hope to live to see the day I can settle down in a sustainable town or city .. all these covid19 situation makes me give up about the future

  5. Ymphaidien Sutong

    August 21, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    hello from Meghalaya, a proud KHASI

  6. Stephen Catton

    August 21, 2020 at 8:03 pm

    My understanding is that it was the ‘environmentalists’ in Australia who prevented the annual forest floor burning from taking place which allowed leaf litter and bush to grow that was the major cause of the ferocity and speed of the forest fires.

    • William Chamberlain

      August 21, 2020 at 10:22 pm

      No; it was the under-funding of fire agencies, who then could not organise a sufficient number of safe burn-offs.

    • friendlyfire

      August 21, 2020 at 11:17 pm

      It’s not the ‘environmentalist’ preventing controlled burns, that is a false narative put forward by climate change deniers and people looking for a simple answer. Most people here in australia with ANY connection to the bush know and understand the importance of controlled burns both from a fire risk management tool and a crucial event in the life cycle of much of our native flora and fauna and its use in maintaining health native ecology. The sad fact is there has been a notable shift in our climate with the window for safe burns where it is neither too wet to burn or too dry and dangerouse has becoming dramatically reduced making controlled burns harder logistically due to a condensed time frame. This added to the increased ‘extreme’ hot weather/wind speed events that we are seeing also where green flora previously un-burnable is dried to a crisp in a 24hr periods creates an extremely complex and dynamic situation where previous fire control and fighting techniques are becoming reduntant and ineffective… at least from a southern nsw/victorian perspective.

  7. tobanga

    August 21, 2020 at 8:03 pm

    COOL!!!

  8. Mark Tyler

    August 21, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    I was in Bhagdad before you were in your dad’s bag.

  9. Federik

    August 21, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Work with nature and there will always be a way.

  10. Invox

    August 21, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    Forget the Past,
    Doom your Future.

  11. A S

    August 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    Profits come first

  12. Russ Jones

    August 21, 2020 at 8:27 pm

    great video, thank you

  13. David Weir

    August 21, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    Amazing video! I learned a lot in my quest for a more complete view on what’s important. Thanks Julia!

  14. 0 0

    August 21, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Awesome natural tech!

  15. Sanjay Basumatary

    August 21, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Root brigdes from Shillong, Meghalaya the place where i lived my childhood 😀

  16. ourforgiveness *com

    August 21, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Ourforgiveness.com

  17. JANEE DISTURBED

    August 21, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    This is just Absolutely amazing! I mean, personally, as a child growing up, I’ve had these kinds of ideas in my head. And I’m talking just playing and pretending! Some of my siblings, friends, and I would play outside and pretend we were either living in the woods and surviving productively, or stranded on a deserted island and surviving the same. We came up with all kinds of ideas too. How we’d live under certain circumstances, building structures to live in, how and what we’d eat, etc. Idky, but that’s one of the things we’d do when play pretending.

    And she’s right. It works! All of these natural resources we should have NEVER destroyed and forgotten!

    Many don’t seem to realize how nature, while replenishing herself constantly, has given humans an abundance we’d need to live and survive together for countless ages! And it was free to do so really.

    Sadly, while we’ve been taking and taking, we’ve done nothing to give back in return. And we’ve forgot how this planet has given us so much to live by exhaustively, because mankind have been too wrapped up in greed, hate, and senseless fighting. All of these things, among so many other things, is one sure fire way of killing our planet and all she’s given, all because of profit and gain. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Because of our actions, we are killing ourselves.

    Now, if we’d all just stop and listen to feel it, you’ll notice how it definitely feels like (and now it’s becoming more visible) Earth is dying. If we would just give back equally as she’s given, maybe she’d think about living and giving again too! And we’d be surprised at all of the amazing possibilities we are capable of achieving, when we work together.

  18. Blcktea

    August 21, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    I’ve been waiting for someone that is likeminded ☯️🤍

  19. Gibran Bedra

    August 21, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    All without modern technology. Ancient technology brings a new meaning to they don’t make them like they used to.

  20. Hit‘em in the Groin With a Banjo

    August 21, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    Meh. Sounds well & good but if you think people are going to spend 15 years to build a root bridge in populated modern cities, good luck. Granted, ancient ways & uses of natural materials can be studied & learned from but to assume they are to be used solely in modern environments is naive. I don’t think anyone hates nature but to use its resources on scale is not sustainable. It will have to be a mix of modern technology & science combined with natural resources that are available.

  21. Robert Barker

    August 21, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    It’s time to burn these youtube basta**s for obstructing free speach and removeing true comments.

  22. josh sotelo

    August 21, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    There is no more ancient wisdom it’s been stolen from us and they lie about the truth so say what ever evil doer I see what’s going made up stories it never adds up I’ll stand with go and bring popcorn when he shows us the truth

  23. مشعل الشمري

    August 22, 2020 at 12:10 am

    اتوقع اني اول عربي

  24. Bertram Davis

    August 22, 2020 at 1:06 am

    Amazing, the very people that should be listened to are the very people that are having their cultures destroyed by the so call smart people.

  25. Thomas Müller

    August 22, 2020 at 10:32 am

    Let the world turn into a jungle. Modern tree houses. Peace and nature.

  26. Diana Pangastuti

    August 22, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Thanks

  27. misfit

    August 22, 2020 at 11:21 am

    Really awesome thoughts and insight. If only Man can get over his greed and foolishness! Respect for Mother Nature and your thoughts.

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    August 22, 2020 at 12:00 pm

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    August 22, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    Great vieo 👍.

  30. Srini Srinivasan

    August 22, 2020 at 12:40 pm

  31. Chingy

    August 22, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    love it. the answer is all around us, were just not looking smart enough.

  32. Brixter Sanchez

    August 22, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    Beautiful beautiful knowledge

  33. Ynnnoj V

    August 22, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    Once the machines take over we will be fine……..

  34. Jessica Smith

    August 22, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    Yes, indeed.
    Well done🤓

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  36. Pagan Skye

    August 22, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    This is so interesting 🤔 👍👍👍

  37. Wankit Nongbet

    August 22, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    We are living in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, our ancestors have foreseen the challenges and opportunities for the coming generations. It’s still kept in the lineage, thank you for showcasing their efforts. Love from Shillong

  38. Alek VH

    August 22, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    i would get a concussion from nodding as much as she did in this video 😀

  39. COPPERFIELD KHARDEWSAW

    August 22, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    I’m proud to be a Khasi to be living in the beautiful place of called as the Scotland of the East
    People who made this root bridge are so patience and innovative it blends from generation to generation

  40. Zarozian

    August 22, 2020 at 5:49 pm

    This is a video is for after the world ends and what we need to learn how to do before it does.

  41. ThankYou

    August 22, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    Yes! Thank you 😊

  42. Sundar Bharadwaj

    August 22, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    “Human Life inclusive of Nature, Age-old practice”, is what’s going to save us. Brilliantly put together, resonates with my idea of sustainable development.

  43. Noukz

    August 22, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    My brother is an experienced architect, however he just doesn’t care about his at all. It’s all about the modern, futuristic way by using concrete, steel and glass.

  44. Joe Shmo

    August 22, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    I’ve always wondered why we call things built from stone that we can’t comprehend how they were built wonders. We should be attempting to duplicate this technology.

  45. Belus Traveller Foreign Once

    August 22, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Yes of course harvesting the wood and control burns will always prevent forest fires 🔥, But they take away the the harvest, they take away the control burns, and look in the USA we burn out of control for only one reason,

  46. Big Al

    August 22, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    The australian bush makes fires without human activitity and is actually good for it. Aboriginals deliberately lit fires to rejuvinate the bush for hunting and gathering.

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    August 22, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    🥁🥁

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  48. Craig Merkey

    August 23, 2020 at 12:26 am

    amazing…these “natural” technologies won’t make billions for multinational corporations and destabilize the population. When profit is the only goal everything else is irrelevant!

  49. Sagar Parajuli

    August 23, 2020 at 12:30 am

    nice.. really love the concept of bridge..wish we could make such bridge in short time

  50. Chris The Impaler The Impaler

    August 23, 2020 at 2:07 am

    The world needs to begin educating their kids with principles of Gunther Pauli’s Blue Economy. It was extremely surprising to see India being listed for river rejuvenation, rivers are usually a convenient landfill for these ancient assholes. They come to my beautiful Goa in swarms and desecrate sacred beaches with litter, broken liquor bottles and more.

  51. homang yangba

    August 23, 2020 at 3:15 am

    Plz visit NE India

  52. Sean Donaldso

    August 23, 2020 at 3:45 am

    This women is incredible and totally right that if we want to survive we will need to work more with nature.

  53. Susan Huntley

    August 23, 2020 at 4:35 am

    Brilliant

  54. M8B2L8

    August 23, 2020 at 4:37 am

    While this bottom up thinking of progressing to sustainable architectures is inspiring, this is merely a treatment to the symptom. We need to shift our thinking in economic expansion and restrict our population if we want the degree of freedom of the aforementioned.

  55. Zeref alngbm

    August 23, 2020 at 5:37 am

    actually it’s in North Eastern part of India , not Northern India.

  56. luffy pirate king

    August 23, 2020 at 5:46 am

    Any Northeast people here???

  57. Sachs Husam

    August 23, 2020 at 8:19 am

    Thanks for spreading the words.

  58. Mani Gupta

    August 23, 2020 at 8:23 am

    She looks somewhat like Katy Perry..😅
    But on a serious note, she has told us some of the ways which we need to consider. Amazing talk!

  59. HAPPY KAZ

    August 23, 2020 at 8:31 am

    She really moved me and the world!!
    It’s time to be aware of the preciousness of the Earth 🌎

  60. Dinsan Francis

    August 23, 2020 at 9:25 am

    She sounds like Chris Anderson. Anyone else felt this?

  61. Karoline

    August 23, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Love this!

  62. Lisa Love Ministries

    August 23, 2020 at 11:53 am

    Seek God Daily. 👑
    John 3:16 Romans 10:9

    • Xensonar

      August 23, 2020 at 8:05 pm

      Nah.

  63. Brandon Emerick

    August 23, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    Indeed, rather than relying primarily on future or “modern” innovations to solve our problems, we also need to consult ancient technologies. They evolved to the present day just as we did in our industrialized civilizations. I really like the permaculture movement and also commoning, since they emphasize community and harmonizing with nature.

  64. Roderick van Roosendaal

    August 23, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Nice Wu Tang earrings

  65. Sceptkl 1

    August 23, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    Work with nature, not against it. You can’t succeed long term otherwise.

  66. Sceptkl 1

    August 23, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    Here is one thing that can help, in the US anyway,..reintroduce the beaver..in California especially

  67. Bibi Derennes

    August 23, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    C’est clair. Travailler, construire AVEC la nature ( pas contre) 🌏 Merci !

  68. Jameson Pace

    August 23, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    Hey, nice necklace…oops, it disappeared!

  69. guywiththebottle

    August 23, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    Having watched the video, I do not see how this will build a resilient future. How is a lot of this implemented in high density areas, where a lot of people live?
    This video seems like resilient solutions to problems faced by humans of the past, not the present.
    I am still waiting for the ‘How’ to be answered as the majority of people have very different living situations than the people featured in this video.

  70. WiseUp&FixIt

    August 23, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    Ancient tech is superior, mans tech are shiny and expensive.

  71. Aunty Mammalia

    August 23, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    What a wonderful way for our future progressive architects to go. These days we can see examples of eco-friendly housing areas complexes or small areas in cities. They are beautiful. A while back I watched a video of some fun, well-done artistic imitations of nature in a park in Singapore (I think). So why not amp it up by amping it back? Sounds about right for the times we are in. Correctly done, it could be absolutly breathtakingly beautiful, I believe. And we’d be supporting this planet that supports us.

  72. Stewart Thomas

    August 23, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Love your stuff kick on love it.

  73. Mamta Garg

    August 23, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    I liked it

  74. Charize Cosmo

    August 23, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    This is pretty meaningful. 💗

  75. DAMODARAN SWAMINATHAN

    August 24, 2020 at 1:56 am

    Few are caring for humanity. One such is Julia Watson.Ted is noted for ideas worth spreading. Above all sustainability is the key word for the betterment of life. Let the message of her and ideas like this be shared across the globe.

  76. R X Conrad

    August 24, 2020 at 2:56 am

    The amazing natural power of the earth and Human Innovation is definitely highlighted in this video…Well done Julia

  77. Raj Shah

    August 24, 2020 at 4:02 am

    I want to share my thoughts but I am not good at expressing? Humans were evolved over many many years? Nature or evolution will solve our problems but modern human is impatient? We think we are so smart and our new technology will take care of any problems? Build walls? Dams? In this mindset we are compressing time? We are not giving nature to give its own solution? Just look at our health system? Drugs for every ailments? We all know body will heal itself if you give time but we are impatient, we want everything now? We need to slow down otherwise nature will destroy us? Why we build houses in river plains? Or close to sea shores? Oh ya we geniuses calculated timings of floods 10 year flood? 100 year floods ? Just to justify screw nature? We see results?
    Unfortunately , we live in a world, we want everything now now now? We will destroy ourselves?

  78. Ghost Hunter

    August 24, 2020 at 5:36 am

    I Nod… And.. Blink.. Every.. Single… Word..

  79. james Gathatwa

    August 24, 2020 at 6:43 am

    Wow

  80. Neil Yakov

    August 24, 2020 at 7:02 am

    Its amazing that so many people didn’t know these things before watching this video. This goes to show how ridiculous our education system is.

  81. o oo

    August 24, 2020 at 7:40 am

    🇮🇳❤

  82. Jonathan *

    August 24, 2020 at 7:41 am

    root bridges are cool, no doubt. but no insurance company will go for it and it is strength is unclear and it would be hard to test. or am I wrong on this? im sure their are many other codes it would not pass, regardless of how much I would trust using them. 
    and we do use controlled burns here in the u.s. maybe not enough but we do. and places like California, well, let it burn.. lol

  83. Faiza Khan

    August 24, 2020 at 7:43 am

    What an amazingly refreshing and insightful talk with such practical solutions that generations have defined and gained expertise in. Absolutely loved it. Thank you for sharing.

  84. JB Smoov

    August 24, 2020 at 8:06 am

    Lol ancient tech = no profit bc it’s so efficient. It become bad for business. That’s why Apple updates their phone software that makes the phone hardware obsolete. AAPL right now has a 2 trillion market cap. They can buy all the forests in the world by simply being wasteful AF.

  85. Neth

    August 24, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Cities gets smarter people gets dumber

  86. Ibadalyne Nonsiej

    August 24, 2020 at 9:24 am

    I love my place and i am proud to be a khasi😊

  87. Sahil sharma

    August 24, 2020 at 10:37 am

    I am irritated by that public speaking guy!

  88. Dam Starz

    August 24, 2020 at 11:56 am

    THIS IS EXCELLENT
    REALLY HOPE MORE PEOPLE SEE THISSS

  89. Joanica Jyrwa

    August 24, 2020 at 1:38 pm

    When you see your own hometown and tribe featured in a TED talk 🙂 Proud to be Khasi always

  90. HealthSpan288

    August 24, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    Our own arrogance have caused us to cast aside all that nature has given us. Humans are the virus to mother Earth and when there is imbalance, she will correct it.

  91. Syk Boy

    August 24, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    I can certainly see a future where all the current buildings we have, WILL be replaced by 3D printed homes made of natural resources. I hope some start-up company is already working on this.

  92. Enlightened Beings

    August 24, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    wow…that could be very useful …
    #EnlIghtenedBeings

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    August 24, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    I have a dream

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    August 24, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    GO VEGAN🌱💚

  95. TheMundo

    August 24, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    Thanks 😁

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    August 25, 2020 at 1:38 am

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    August 25, 2020 at 9:20 am

    “In a rush towards the future, we tend to forget about the past.”

  104. Fawad Abbasi

    August 25, 2020 at 9:47 am

    I love this so so SO much. Thank you Julia Watson you beautiful human

  105. Asdf Fwefwef

    August 25, 2020 at 10:04 am

    Please dont close ted in Russian please #saveTEDRussia

  106. Overpower

    August 25, 2020 at 11:32 am

    #savetedrussia

  107. OrionFortune

    August 25, 2020 at 11:52 am

    #SaveTEDRussia

  108. Никита Елин

    August 25, 2020 at 11:52 am

    Don’t close “TED на русском языке» yt channel! Stop!!!

  109. Atom Denker

    August 25, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    I don’t understand your video releases because I speak only Russian !!! TED Authors Should Know About You All Over The World, In Every Language Of The World! I ask you TED speakers to support your viewers and petition to keep the TED YouTube channel in Russian !!! Thanks! We watch you only in a language that is understandable for us in our countries! #savetedrussia

  110. Andrew Ilchenko

    August 25, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    #savetedrussia 🙏🙏🙏
    Ваша задача – просвещать человечество, не надо это запрещать! Не все люди знают английский язык, а канал “TED на русском языке” это доступное просвещение для нашей страны!

  111. Grey Foxie

    August 25, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    #savetedrussia

  112. NIG VUL

    August 25, 2020 at 1:20 pm

    #saveTDRussia

  113. Михаил Иониди

    August 25, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    What the f*ck TED? Why are you closing the Russian channel? Are we inferior people ?? We do not have the right to learn science together with the whole world? But what about everyone’s right to study? TED isn’t just a channel, it’s educational content! The best speakers from all over the world tell us useful things, helping us to understand ourselves, the surrounding reality and the people around! They save lives and inspire us with new ideas! You are fooling a gigantic layer of people with freedom of knowledge! Make an agreement with the owner of the Russian channel, he will be happy to meet you!
    #savetedrussia

    Что за фигня TED?
    Почему ты закрываешь Русский канал? Мы что люди низшего сорта?? Мы не имеем право познавать науку вместе со всем миром? А как же право каждого на обучение? TED это не просто канал, это обучающий контент! Лучшие спикеры со всего мира рассказывают нам полезные вещи, помогая нам разобраться в себе, в окружающей действительности и в людях вокруг! Они спасают жизни и вдохновляют нас новыми идеями! Вы лешаете гиганский пласт людей свободе знания! Договоритесь с владельцем русского канала, он с радостью пойдёт к вам на встречу!

  114. FyLa

    August 25, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    #savetedrussia

  115. Lord Darth Rushirious

    August 25, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    Good info, Julia. I don’t only see these ancient engineering concepts as amazing and resilient but I also see them as highly prone to safe innovation and upgrading. I study infrastructure and architecture and civil engineering and I think that especially that idea with the mangrove tree roots can be upgraded so that the roots can be moulded into bridges faster and sturdier, without damaging their resilience, the idea and the plan is in my head but I’m not spilling it here because it’s highly underdeveloped. But your information made it all the more helpful to think of better infrastructure.

  116. ibrahim Abouaza

    August 25, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Good

  117. Joseph Gooden

    August 25, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    This is amazing. This should be mainstream. Why isn’t this what people are talking about?

  118. NWA CAD Services

    August 26, 2020 at 2:27 am

    Love this video!

  119. Александр Полищук

    August 26, 2020 at 7:42 am

    #savetedrussia

  120. Ruslan Del Piero

    August 26, 2020 at 8:34 am

    Не закрывайте TED На русском языке Dont close TEDRussia @

  121. Здесь сижу

    August 26, 2020 at 9:55 am

    #SaveTEDRussia

  122. simonflyboy

    August 26, 2020 at 10:40 am

    Brilliant!

  123. Андрей Андреев

    August 26, 2020 at 11:04 am

    #savetedrussia

  124. Nice pic

    August 26, 2020 at 11:29 am

    #saveTEDRussia

  125. Web Master

    August 26, 2020 at 12:15 pm

    #saveTEDRussia – Dont close TEDRussia –

  126. Михаил Ломакин

    August 26, 2020 at 12:54 pm

    Please, don’t close TEDRussia channel!!! #saveTEDRussia

  127. Kelva K

    August 26, 2020 at 1:18 pm

    Не закрывайте TED на русском языке / Don’t close TEDRussia #saveTEDRussia

  128. Bob Herk

    August 26, 2020 at 1:37 pm

    Ancient technology that is still effective and in use today must be taught to help our planet and all of humanity.

  129. Виктория Фед

    August 26, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    #savetedrussia

  130. Dima Garbar

    August 26, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    dont close ted russia PLEASE!!!!

  131. AnutaPontera Пономарьова

    August 26, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    #SaveTEDRussia , please!

  132. ASOPELA

    August 26, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    #saveTEDRussia – Dont close TEDRussia –

  133. Sandu FRZ

    August 26, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    #saveTEDRussia

  134. Western Sunrise

    August 27, 2020 at 3:14 am

    I love you as you said concrete glass steel are against nature. We really need eco friendly solutions

  135. clearmenser

    August 27, 2020 at 4:14 am

    Chemical free?! What’s that mean?

  136. mike askme

    August 27, 2020 at 4:37 am

    That Bridge and the Marsh cities and villages are amazing.

  137. Хейтэм Кенуэй

    August 27, 2020 at 4:58 am

    Долго думал как к вам обратится, учитывая что вы никак не реагируете на письма. Там я предположил, что обратится к вам капиталисты – грубо, дельцы – тоже не то. Мне понравился вариант – предприниматели. Но судя по всему, это тоже не то, вернемся к варианту номер два.
    Уважаемые предприниматели, вы разбиваете сердца своей потенциальной аудитории – тем, что гасите пламень знаний, при этом позиционируя себя сторонниками созидания и просвещения. А по-факту, дельцы и не более. Или возьмите команду канала “TED на русском” – к себе, для озвучивания роликов, либо оставьте их в покое. В противном случае вы не имеете морального права зваться образовательным каналом, это называется лицемерие.
    #savetedrussia

  138. Fifi Finance

    August 27, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    This was exactly what I was seeking. I subscribed, and beyond that, will be searching for other videos on your channel that are make sense. Your style is brilliant. Thanks!👍👍

  139. David Krane

    August 28, 2020 at 7:47 am

    This is great! Check out my how-to Facebook group, The Consciousness of Growing Spirulina

  140. فاطمة الزهراء

    August 30, 2020 at 9:10 am

    We need subtitle with english language pllz

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