Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

http://www.ted.com With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

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[OcarinaofTime98]

Not that this is the point, but I was on that hill for that dance :)

[Gareth Lott]

HATE that TED talks can be sponsored by an Oil promo... nearly a third of this video has nothing to do with TED.

[Lucas Alvarez]

fuck oil ! old paradigm energy.

[Franz Fuls]

agreed. "we need to find the oil that we can to supply the EARTH's needs" !?!?!?

maybe humanity's needs, but what the EARTH needs is a humanity that conserves and protects its long term future.

what a disappointing sales pitch.

[Scott B]

Shut your hole Gareth. I HATE that TED talks have opinionated idiots like you watching them. You have nothing to do with intelligence or good idea's. Not everyone is drinking the cool aid. Personally I like capitalism, if you don't, move to China.

[OcarinaofTime98]

Sasquatch Music Festival at The Gorge in Washington State. 2009 I believe it was.

[steph13123]

where was this footage taken? at what event?

[ayang19701]

It's difficult to be a leader, but it's easy to be a follower.

you can be a follower,but you must know what you are doing.

I'm the best follower because I'm third one to leave message.

It is not easy to be the first follower. To be a follower should have enough courage.

[Chuck Norris]

The Harlem Shake... Before it was popular.

[Xeiom]

Is that where the Harlem shake was born? Someone really should have stopped that first follower

[Tor Barstad]

Great video. About the commercial: People that think filling the worlds need for energy with renewable energy is far ahead are wrong. Sunrays provide earth with thousands of times our energy need, and the cost of harvesting solar energy is dropping exponentially. It will likely become cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels well within a decade, and intersting storage-technology is also being developed. I don't dissapprove of finding oil, but smart heads can do much more interesting things.