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."
How 4 Elements Will Transform Our Relationship To Things
Chris Yonge talks about what open products look like and how when we change our relationship to things we change our relationship to ourselves.
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If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
Education,
Danny Keith shares the moment one very specific piece of data about hunger opened his heart to the potential of young people as the solution.
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Big Data’s Coming To Your Town
Technology,
Donnie Fowler & Zach Friend define Big Data and share examples of how it can it can be used for the betterment of municipalities and communities everywhere.
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How Leaders Learn
Business, Education,
Mark Nicolson, a consultant teaching transformative leadership transforming our fear, sorrow, pain, and grief can encourage leaders to have courage, compassion, humility.
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Helping Africa Help Itself
Ending the Global Oppression of Women
Engaging the Intelligence of the Heart
Howard Martin shows us through a simple electrocardiogram that we have the power to improve our heart health by feeling love, empathy, compassion, and other positive, caring feelings.
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Sifteo Cubes, Makers and Learners: My Double Ah-Ha Moment
Technology,
Individuals are becoming empowered with new tools such as 3D printers and other tools that allow us to DIY. David Merrill believes the creative impulse to build things for each other can provide a key case for what the world needs today.
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The Biology of Big
Science,
50% of all mammalian species are in population decline. Terrie Williams urges us to get out of our cubicles and get to a point where you start thinking big, and realize that you are a part of a big world.
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