700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz
TED Talks Daily22 Heinä 2025

700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz

Impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz unveils a bold vision to bring off-grid solar electricity to 700 million people still living in darkness, transforming lives while slashing emissions. She asks a thought-provoking question: What if this generation could be remembered for finally bringing electricity — and dignity — to everyone on the planet?

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The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques -- and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren't...

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Why nurses are key to medical innovation | Ben Gran

Why nurses are key to medical innovation | Ben Gran

Nurses represent the front line of health care -- from first breaths to last moments, and everything in between. But there's a vital place nurses are missing in action, says Ben Gran. He makes a compe...

11 Tammi 202316min

The secret to a happy life -- lessons from 8 decades of research | Robert Waldinger

The secret to a happy life -- lessons from 8 decades of research | Robert Waldinger

The happiest and healthiest people are those who have warm connections with others, says psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, who leads the Harvard Study of Adult Development -- one of the longest-running s...

10 Tammi 202329min

What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe | Jessie Christiansen

What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe | Jessie Christiansen

What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than ...

9 Tammi 20236min

How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partners...

6 Tammi 202311min

How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons

How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons

Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. T...

3 Tammi 202314min

You can do better than a New Year's resolution | How to Be a Better Human

You can do better than a New Year's resolution | How to Be a Better Human

Why do so many of us wait until a new calendar year to start setting our goals? For today's guest, the author Gretchen Rubin, "there really is no magic to January 1st" -- and the best time to start a ...

2 Tammi 202338min

The deep time walk | Outrage + Optimism

The deep time walk | Outrage + Optimism

To close out the year on TED Talks Daily, we wanted to leave you with something special. It's an immersive sound journey through the history of Earth, as told by ecologist and author Stephan Harding. ...

30 Joulu 202249min

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