Featured Talk: Save What You Love by Jonathan Franzen
TEDxSantaCruz is excited to announce the release of local resident and renowned writer and essayist Jonathan Franzen’s TEDxSantaCruz 2019 talk about climate crisis and the urgent need for humanity to adapt to current realities of the Anthropocene, including the sixth mass extinction. Entitled Save What You Love, he invites us to acknowledge harsh facts of the climate crisis, and to work fiercely and urgently to preserve as much of the planet’s biodiversity even as efforts to mitigate the crisis continue.Featured Talk: Thieves of Hope: Moving Past Your Worst Mistakes by Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin shares her story of redemption and brings to attention "Thieves of Hope."
Hope Built This: Placemaking and Chanticleer Park
Mariah Roberts was one of the key partners of the collaboration to imagine, fund and build Chanticleer County Park, a 4.5 acre park, featuring LEO’s Haven Inclusive Playground designed beyond ADA requirements to be an outdoor classroom for inclusive play.
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Local Government: Where Democracy Goes to Live
Former mayor and current chair of Santa Cruz county board of commissioners pleads to the audience: “This is the time when we need your love & hope to engage in local democracy, serve on a local board or county commission.”
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The Banana Slug Effect
Save What You Love
Thieves of Hope: Moving Past Your Worst Mistakes by Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin shares her story of redemption and brings to attention "Thieves of Hope."
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To Open Your World, Trust Your Intuition
The Human Genome: Collaboration is the New Competition
Dr. David Haussler compellingly talks about the race between private and public entities to complete the first DNA sequencing of the human genome. What is the significance of providing the world with the first open source sequenced genome and the accompanying Genome Browser tool? Only the opportunity for scientists and medical professionals around the globe to collaborate in ways that are producing gene therapies previously thought impossible... and more.
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In the Beginning: The Origin & Purpose of Life
Are we compelled to become an interplanetary species? Scientist and designer Bruce Damer thinks so. In this philosophical talk, he elaborates on a new theory of the origin of life, and makes the case that the future of all life on Earth lies in a radical collaboration enabling a bold expansion of life into the cosmos.
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There is Nothing Wrong With You
Jazz vocalist Ed Reed was voted "No. 1 rising star" in the male vocalist category at age 86. But before that he was a heroin addict for 40 years and in prison four times from 1951 to 1966. After passing through dozens of treatment programs and voluntary mental health institutions until 1986, he finally got into recovery and began his music career.
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