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."
The Greatest Discovery You Never Heard Of
Science,
When complexity races ahead of the brain’s ability to understand it, we become gridlocked and start passing off our problems to the next generation. An uneven rate of change between biology and human progress causes a gap to occur. Rebecca Costa shares a couple of solutions that can help us buy time.
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My Vertical Gift: What the Cliffs of Big Sur Taught Me
Education,
Bruce shares key information he learned after a near fatal accident at Big Sur.
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Gamification
An Interactive Presentation of Live Audio/Visual Looping
Music,
Rick Walker talks about how he has always enjoyed using electronic beats to make music. Shows us a loop created from the audience’s participation.
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(R)evolutionary Medicine
Health,
Rachel Abrams encourages us to consume whole foods, move, love, and live our life with meaning so that we can change our lives and the world.
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The Solar Window Of Opportunity
Activism, Education,
Joe Jordan encourages us to seek out renewable energy sources.
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Permission
Activism,
Heidi Boynton shares a personal experience that led her to request and grant permission to allow ourselves to love our bodies, environment, and life.
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Fuels and Tools for a Sustainable Future
Environment, Science,
Jonathan Trent talks about how biofuels cannot compete with agriculture for water, fertilizer, and land. Can algae produce the biofuels that we need? In this talk, he shares the methodology and concepts of a current experiment funded by NASA and California Energy Commission.
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World as Construction Kit
Science, Technology,
Jay Silver awakens to nature around him and develops a tool that detects energy by playing back sound. Color, electrical resistance and sound to recreate the world around them.
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