TED Takes Aim at Pollution and Poverty

Today's TED Talk: artist Dianna Cohen discusses her work involving plastic bags and pollution — a battle that touches on brands aiming to make their products, processes and packaging more sustainable and eco-conscious, particularly as more communities move to ban plastic bags.

The innovation-spurring lecture series just honored another artist, granting France's simply named JR its $100,000 TED Prize for 2011. See his work putting a human face (literally) on the world's slums after the jump.