https://time.com/6083634/why-is-katie-ledecky-so-fast/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qZH3h2FT/poster.jpg?width=720 The Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony Was Eerily Quiet With Few Spectators The Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, a year delayed, publicly opposed —went off Friday night on a humid 82-degree evening Tokyo, in an Olympic Stadium eerily quiet since it was devoid of its traditional horde of excited spectators. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qZH3h2FT.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/qZH3h2FT 87 2021-07-23T19:42:00+00:00 no no https://time.com/6082973/vermont-electric-grid/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nAa6uHcl/poster.jpg?width=720 Planet Earth’s Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business Across the Biden Administration, and around the world, government officials have increasingly focused their attention on the private sector—treating companies not just as entities to regulate but also as core partners. We “need to accelerate our transition” off fossil fuels, says Brian Deese, director of President Biden’s National Economic Council. “And that...will only happen if the American private sector, including the incumbent energy producers in the U.S., utilities and otherwise, are an inextricable part of that process.” https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nAa6uHcl.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/nAa6uHcl 193 2022-04-14T10:00:00+00:00 no no https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ydQhS316/poster.jpg?width=720 The Empire State Building's Green Retrofit Was a Success. Will Other Buildings Follow Suit? Energy usage by large, old buildings like the Empire State Building represents a huge obstacle to cities’ dreams of carbon neutrality. New York City’s buildings account for 70% of its carbon emissions, for example, and half of those emissions are produced by the largest 5% of its structures. But retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient represents a formidable challenge, both from an engineering perspective and in terms of convincing owners that doing so is in their financial interest. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ydQhS316.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/ydQhS316 351 2021-05-10T18:08:00+00:00 no no https://time.com/6083877/olympics-womens-skateboarding-stars/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/pBEO3M3k/poster.jpg?width=720 Japan's Yuto Horigome Is the New King of Skateboarding After Winning the Sport's First Olympic Gold Medal Skateboarding has a new king, and Japan has another fine reason to cheer these troubled Olympics. Yuto Horigome, 22, who served notice that he was a threat by winning at the Street Skateboarding World Championships in June, earned the sport’s first Olympic gold medal in the sweaty heat on Sunday at Tokyo’s Ariake Urban Park. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pBEO3M3k.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/pBEO3M3k 135 2021-07-25T14:00:00+00:00 no no https://time.com/6084098/employer-vaccine-mandates/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/v5WND7PH/poster.jpg?width=720 Olivia Rodrigo Visits the White House to Promote COVID-19 Youth Vaccinations Pop star and singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo is at the White House today, in an effort to help promote youth COVID vaccinations. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/v5WND7PH.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/v5WND7PH 42 2021-07-14T20:04:50+00:00 no no https://time.com/6084114/larry-nassar-sexual-abuse-child-athletes/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Qpdzu3Fm/poster.jpg?width=720 What It’s Like to Be In the Tokyo Olympics COVID-19 Bubble At the Tokyo 2020 Games, strict COVID-19 countermeasures are in place for the media, athletes and other Olympics-related personnel, from testing to movement restrictions. Here is a look at what it’s like inside the COVID-19 bubble. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Qpdzu3Fm.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Qpdzu3Fm 244 2021-07-22T16:13:00+00:00 no no