Talking About how Coffee Waste can Power the World with Greg Barris

Talking About how Coffee Waste can Power the World with Greg Barris

Update: 2018-09-20

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Greg Barris is a comic chameloen, street wizard, culture jammer, and innovative thinker when it comes to alternative sources of energy, among other things. We'll talk about how the amount of coffee waste we already have can power the world 2.5 times over, why we should all be using our waste as fuel, and whether or not Joseph Stalin invented the one liner.

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