Inventions That Could Help Heal the Planet | An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

From ancient stone tools to modern breakthroughs, human ingenuity has always helped us adapt and thrive. In this episode of An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau travels to Peru, Ecuador, the Netherlands and France to meet the bold innovators reimagining nature’s potential....

48 min - Science & Tech - Bloomberg Originals

More: Inventors & Inventions documentaries

Read Deeper: Inventors & Inventions

1. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Tesla by W. Bernard Carlson - View on Amazon
3. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - View on Amazon
4. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. My inventions by Nikola Tesla (4.2/5) - View on Amazon

Watch Next

• We Made A Giant Zipper To Explain How It Works (21 min, Veritasium)
• Linotype | How One Machine Shaped History | The Real OG of Mass Communication (77 min, Moconomy)
• Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (34 min, Veritasium)
• The Medieval Invention That Changed The Course Of History | The Machine That Made Us (59 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• How Was Video Invented? (13 min, Veritasium)
• Ben Franklin's Greatest Inventions | Modern Marvels (S12, E16) (44 min, HISTORY)
• How Stainless Steel Was Invented Completely By Accident (51 min, Spark)
• This Is Where New Ideas REALLY Come From (19 min, Be Smart)