John D. Liu underlines the importance of life, nature, and the earth in relation to humans. Through his camera lense, he documented dessertified landscapes that years later, through eco-system restoriation, turn into green oases and fertile agricultural areas. Liu's talk details us our relation to nature and motivates us to work towards a greener planet After 15 years as a Television Producer and Cameraman for CBS News, RAI and ZDF, John began to study ecology. In the mid-1990’s he led to the creation of the Environmental Education Media Project for China (EEMPC), and has since distributed over 1,000 environmental films in China. The EEMPC also helped found the “China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Center (CESDRRC) and the China HIV/AIDS Information Center (CHAIN). Between 2003-2006, John was a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England. In 2013 he received the Communications Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
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