I wish I had found this website earlier. FORA.tv is a website with ‘videos on the people, issues, and ideas changing the planet’, which seems to sum up what the site has to offer, even if a little grandiose. There are lectures and forums given by prominent speakers on topics that are (often) just as interesting. I spent a couple of hours watching without even noticing.  Here’s a couple of programs I liked:

• Tim O’Reilly Talks Web 2.0 – Tim O’Reilly (the guy credited with the phrase web 2.0) talks about the continued evolution of the internet; the extent of its reach, and implications on our future lives. More interesting than it sounds. 
• New Green Building Practices in China – A forum with speakers on several different aspects of a new sustainable building project in Shanghai, where they explored the idea of stacking neighborhoods seperated by garden levels.

It’s one of those sites you sometimes wish the whole internet could be like – you know, useful. It’s great because as far as I know, it’s all free also. Everyone loves free.

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