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."
Surfing For Change
Activism,
Daily decisions that we can make can have a global impact. Through your daily decisions, you have the power to change your community as well as the lives of other people around the world.
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Disruption and Engagement
Technology,
Roger educates the audience on how tech makes way for new industries.
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Sustaining Compassion: A Nonprofit Story
Lori Butterworth shares the inspiration behind Jacob's Heart, a nonprofit hospice for children with illnesses. "Nonprofits bring out the best in us, it gives us a place where we can express our generosity and compassion."
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Changing The World Through A Shared Cosmology
We are in the Golden Age of Cosmology, as we have new pictures of the universe, in which humans are central. Nancy and Joel navigate through the matter found throughout the universe. Explain how our period existence fits into the larger span of the universe’s existence.
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