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March 21, 2024

COLLECTION

From Ideas to Action, Highlights from Aspen Ideas: Climate 2024

At Aspen Ideas: Climate 2024, the world's most ambitious climate problem solvers came together in Miami Beach to address our collective future on this planet. Watch highlights from this year's event, which brought together global and local policy makers, innovators, scientists, artists, young leaders, and many others to forge solutions to climate change. These sessions will leave you with a deepened sense of workable hope and new pathways for turning ideas into action.

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PODCAST

Two Decades of Progress Against HIV

Twenty years ago, the United States started a program to treat HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world. Called the “President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,” or PEPFAR, the initiative has helped save tens of millions of lives and is still going today. “As a nation of great riches and opportunities, we have a moral responsibility to not let people die from a disease that is treatable merely because of where they were born and where they live,” says Anthony Fauci, the principal architect of PEPFAR who designed the program while under instructions to keep it almost entirely secret. Fauci is now best known for helping the country handle the COVID-19 crisis, but he’s been working to battle infectious disease around the world for decades. In today’s talk from Aspen Ideas: Health, he’s joined by then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who rallied support in Congress and led the passage of PEPFAR legislation. CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen interviews them about how they got the monumental program off the ground and what we’ve learned from it two decades later.

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20 YEARS OF IDEAS

Happiness 101

Yale professor Laurie Santos’ course “Psychology and the Good Life” is the most popular class in the university’ 300-year history. She teaches students the science of well-being, including misconceptions about happiness that are stealing our joy and the research-proven things that actually make us happy. In this session from the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival, Santos shares the top insights from her Yale class, giving a crash course on how to feel less stressed and depressed, and ultimately find more meaning in your life. It’s applicable to everyone, from undergraduates to retirees.

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