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
Touching Land: How to Build Bridges Through Art
At Touching Land, immigrants learn about their rights and self-worth as they make a ceramic piece. The program also has a building bridges track, where cross cultural exchange happens as immigrants and American citizens come together through the power of art.
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The Arc of the Scientific Universe is Long
Science,
David Deamer investigates how nucleic acids and primitive cells could have emerged on Earth 4 billion years ago.
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The Ingredients of Activism
The Radical Authenticity Revolution
Different Is Not Dangerous
I was suffering: Parenting PTSD
Abigail Makepeace shares her parenting experiences and fears. Abigail Makepeace is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, the founder of Makepeace Therapy, a writer, and a thought leader in trauma’s impact on relationships.
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The Future? Yes…And. Business As a Force for Change
The Philosophy of Hope & Despair
"Hope is a virtue that helps us grapple with the temptation of despair."
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