TEDxPLAZACIBELES - Manuel Maqueda - The New Radical.mov August 10, 2011

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Manuel is an indefinable visionary trained as an international economist, attorney, entrepreneur, and environmentalist. Manuel is fascinated with emerging and future environmental and societal issues, and weaves this passion into his work advising disruptive nonprofits and startups in Silicon Valley.

Manuel is a cofounder of Plastic Pollution Coaltion, a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment; and the founder of Plastic Free Times, an online news source and resource on plastic pollution. Manuel is the founder of Trash Island, an organization using technology, arts, and media to provide a visceral understanding of global issues, and a participant of Midway Journey, exploring of the crisis of our consumer culture though the metaphoric island of Midway.
Director for the Americas of PeriodismoCiudadano.com and founder of Nuestra Voz, Manuel has provided key advice to many emerging nonprofits and businesses, and is currently a partner, and the Vice President of Community and Strategy of BlooSee, a San Francisco based technology company harnessing the best ocean information, and making it accessible and useful.

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