700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz
TED Talks Daily22 Jul 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 truth about unwanted arousal | Emily Nagoski

Sex educator Emily Nagoski breaks down one of the most dangerous myths about sex and introduces us to the science behind arousal nonconcordance: when there's a disconnect between physical response and...

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What it's like to be a transgender dad | LB Hannahs

What it's like to be a transgender dad | LB Hannahs

LB Hannahs candidly shares the experience of parenting as a genderqueer individual -- and what it can teach us about authenticity and advocacy. "Authenticity doesn't mean 'comfortable.' It means manag...

10 Mai 201813min

Confessions of a depressed comic | Kevin Breel

Confessions of a depressed comic | Kevin Breel

Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that -- to save his own life -- he needed to say four s...

9 Mai 201811min

A playful solution to the housing crisis | Sarah Murray

A playful solution to the housing crisis | Sarah Murray

Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer game that allows home buyers to design a house and have it delivered to them in modular components t...

8 Mai 201810min

How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford

How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford

In one day, in one city, in one neighborhood -- what if everyone put their guns down? Erricka Bridgeford is a peacemaker who wants to stop the murders and violence in her hometown of Baltimore. So she...

8 Mai 201811min

What it takes to be racially literate | Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

What it takes to be racially literate | Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

Over the last year, Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo traveled to all 50 US states, collecting personal stories about race and intersectionality. Now they're on a mission to equip every American with the to...

7 Mai 201812min

To design better tech, understand context | Tania Douglas

To design better tech, understand context | Tania Douglas

What good is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment to people in Africa if it can't handle the climate there? Biomedical engineer Tania Douglas shares stories of how we're often blinded to real ne...

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It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence | Laura L. Dunn

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To make accountability the norm after gender violence in the United States, we need to change tactics, says victims’ rights attorney and TED Fellow Laura L. Dunn. Instead of going institution by insti...

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