Jim Trussler is CEO/Co-founder of LST Energy -- a startup commercializing a patented system to burn hay in traditional furnaces and boilers. Scientists have for decades been unsuccessfully trying to find a method to use hay for conventional heating applications. LST found a way. The system has been tested over two winters by the NS Agricultural College and exceeded expectations. This breakthrough enables a flood of new opportunities for farmers to monetize hay crops, entrepreneurs to process the hay into fuel pellets and consumers to cut their heating costs in half -- all in addition to the enormous environmental benefits of using hay instead of oil. Read more on tedxnovascotia.com/talk_list

Using Gaming in Our Everyday Lives for Everyday Tasks. By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.

Ariel Shamir, a professor of computer science at IDC Herzliya, is a computer graphics expert and the author of numerous articles and patents. Shamir talks about the past, present and future of image generation and manipulation and shares his passion for its underlying mathmatical beauty.

Keith Krueger is the CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders. The following is his speech at TEDxDenverEd on using technology strategically to improve teaching and learning.

Update: Video now available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUh_WfnASek

Chris Anderson in his TEDxKarachi talk, discusses the importance of sharing ideas, his motivation of creating TED and transforming this project into a global idea worth spreading.

“Glass pieces and particles come slowly together to form the TEDxEdges title, the same way people and ideas come together at the TED talks,” says main title designer Filipe Carvalho about his opening titles for the 2009 Lisbon TED event. Great choice in soundtrack and beautiful render too.

Check out an interview with the creator over at watchthetitles.com

Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults. Filmed in Edmonton, Canada.

Jesper Larsson started the worlds first free hotel, but only for creators. Hes going to speak about what he labels as Creative Social Responsibility, and how every good idea he has ever gotten started as some sort of serious joke.

The last five years of Azim Wazeer's life have seen him undertake undergraduate coursework in both Saudi Arabia and Canada, two vastly different spaces. What makes this story more complex is that he was also born in Sri Lanka (South Asia). Having never lived (and only vacationed) in Sri Lanka, he has always been an international student in some form and he has been one in locations that are polar opposites.

Global citizenship to Azim is about an understanding that we may seem bizarre to one another in our practices, but beyond that our core motivators, needs and wants are pretty much the same. Global citizenship is about a belief that we can succeed as a collective group despite our varying patriotic and cultural beliefs.

Hope I'm still in Hali for this! RT @adamflight: #TEDx Halifax January 23, 2010, follow @TEDxHalifax for updates! Event teaser on Oct. 22

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