Where does stuff come from? Are we responsible for it? What do we do about it? Martin Rapaport makes a passionate case for how our choice as consumers offers a solution to end the exploitation.

Two fascinating talks from TED2009 suggest early detection and prevention may hold the solution to ending epidemics. Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge — passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa — before they claim [...]