Horse whisperer Koelle Simpson takes us through her journey with a badly traumatized horse to show how, when we learn to heal the injured animal within us, we will heal all those around us. Her work with horses and humans has shown her that true leadership and healing begins with the change we create within.
read moreSaura Naderi lit up the TEDxSanDiego stage wearing an illuminated sign that spelled out her name. She proceeded to dazzle us with her efforts to instill inner-city girls with a joy for engineering by “packaging the hard stuff with fun stuff.” Saura chronicled her work with a group of 7 to 15-year olds over a 6-week period. By being allowed to express their creativity without fear of failure, the girls created marvelously inventive hats for opening day at the Del Mar races, each of which featured an example of amplified robotics designed by its maker.
read moreTony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Co-founder and Vice-Chair of CleanTECH San Diego, and his colleagues decided to stop waiting for the government to do something about pollution and developed their own carbon weather visualization program. Earthnetworks.com is establishing the first regional greenhouse gas network that makes it possible to see how much CO2 is in our neighborhoods. Haymet’s demonstration of the program showed how monitoring greenhouse gasses opens the debate about our environment beyond the scientific community – and enables us to view their effects based on reality not rhetoric.
read moreJason Russell co-founded Invisible Children after a visit to Uganda in 2003. Their goal is to mobilize people to end the 26-year reign of terror of Joseph Kony and free the child soldiers of the LRA. He is launching “Joseph Kony 2012.” They are targeting 20 of the most influential people around the world to help. They want to have a presence at every event of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, until Joseph Kony is brought to justice at the International Criminal Court. Invisible Children’s latest accomplishment was to get the U.S. to send a small contingent of troops to Uganda in November 2011.
read moreBorn Hargobind Hari Singh Khalsa in Eugene, Oregon, the-artist-later-to-be-known-more-simply-as Hargo grew up surrounded by music. His parents, both accomplished musicians, filled the young Hargo’s soul with everything from the religious music of their Sikh temple to the classic rock of his father’s youth and everything in between. “Growing up around music from day one, hearing my dad play Beatles songs, Tom Petty, and traditional Sikh songs… There’s soundtrack to every day of my life that I can remember. Looking back, me becoming a musician seems like it was meant to be from day one.
“We do not have to choose between people and animals,” says Alexis Chavez who works with the ECOLIFE Foundation on creating a new type of dialogue for solutions that combine wildlife and human issues into one problem. Chavez talked about how rescue centers are useful, however, they focus on a small aspect of a much larger dilemma. She stated that we must address the issue of human need and work with both species in order to come up with a solution. Chavez reiterated passionately that “seeds of change are small, we just have to learn to cultivate them.”
read moreIn our time of rapid technological progression and increasing global challenges, Dr. Martha Beck guides us back to practicing the technologies of magic from ancient cultures. Through her research, she’s identified 4 steps that people of traditional cultures all over the world have practiced: Wordlessness, Oneness, Imagination, and Forming. Dr. Beck’s talk takes us through the African bush and across oceans to show how we can figure out what to do with our one wild and precious life.
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