ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Colin Robertson - Social energy entrepreneur
Colin Robertson is apparently "attempting to make the world's first crowdsourced solar energy solution" Or is he?

Why you should listen

Colin Robertson is a young entrepreneur with a single, world-changing idea: crowdsource solar energy solutions to the global climate crisis. He is a passionate believer in the idea that we can solve all of our problems by coming together in groups.

He is also a fictional character created by ImprovEverywhere for a special prank at TED2012. He is played by Eugene Cordero, an actor and comedian based in Los Angeles, and a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. 

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TED2012

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Colin Robertson hatte 3 Minuten Zeit auf der TED-Bühne, um der Welt von seiner per Crowdsourcing entwickelten, solarbetriebenen Lösung zur Gesundheitsvorsorge zu erzählen. Und dann ...
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TodayHeute I'm going to talk
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about unexpectedunerwartet discoveriesEntdeckungen.
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von unerwarteten Entdeckungen berichten.
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Now I work in the solarSolar- technologyTechnologie industryIndustrie.
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Ich arbeite in der Solartechnologie-Branche.
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And my smallklein startupAnfang
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Und mein kleines Startup
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is looking to forceKraft ourselvesuns selbst
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möchte, dass wir uns
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into the environmentUmwelt
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zum Umweltschutz zwingen,
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by payingzahlend attentionAufmerksamkeit to ...
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indem es ...
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... payingzahlend attentionAufmerksamkeit to crowd-sourcingCrowdsourcing.
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... es dem Crowdsourcing Beachtung schenkt.
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It's just a quickschnell videoVideo
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Hier ist ein kurzes Video
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of what we do.
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über das, was wir tun.
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Huh. HangHängen on a momentMoment.
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Oh. Einen Moment.
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It mightMacht take a momentMoment to loadBelastung.
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Es dauert vielleicht, bis es geladen ist.
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(LaughterLachen)
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We'llWir werden just -- we can just skipüberspringen --
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Nun – wir können das einfach überspringen –
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I'll just skipüberspringen throughdurch the videoVideo insteadstattdessen ...
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ich werde stattdessen einfach das Video überspringen ...
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No.
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Nein.
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(MusicMusik)
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This is not ...
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Das ist nicht ...
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Okay.
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SolarSolar technologyTechnologie is ...
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Solartechnologie ist ...
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Oh, that's all my time?
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Oh, meine Zeit ist schon vorbei?
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Okay. Thank you very much.
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Okay. Vielen Dank.
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Translated by Katja Tongucer
Reviewed by Lex Asobo

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Colin Robertson - Social energy entrepreneur
Colin Robertson is apparently "attempting to make the world's first crowdsourced solar energy solution" Or is he?

Why you should listen

Colin Robertson is a young entrepreneur with a single, world-changing idea: crowdsource solar energy solutions to the global climate crisis. He is a passionate believer in the idea that we can solve all of our problems by coming together in groups.

He is also a fictional character created by ImprovEverywhere for a special prank at TED2012. He is played by Eugene Cordero, an actor and comedian based in Los Angeles, and a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. 

More profile about the speaker
Colin Robertson | Speaker | TED.com