TEDxJacksonHole - Brian Leith - Filming the Invisible People
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Brian Leith is an executive producer for the BBC's Natural History Unit in Bristol. His most recent films include Human Planet, the first wildlife series about mankind, and Elsa: The Lion that Changed the World. He has won numerous awards over the years, including a much-prized Best of Festival award at Jackson Wildlife Film Festival in 2003. T... Read more
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Brian Leith - Filming the Invisible People
November 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Brian Leith is an executive producer for the BBC's Natural History Unit in Bristol. His most recent films include Human Planet, the first wildlife series about mankind, and Elsa: The Lion that Changed the World. He has won numerous awards over the years, including a much-prized Best of Festival a...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - David Gonzales - Fighting for the Trees
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)David Gonzales is a local writer, photographer, filmmaker who is well known for his book on the history of skiing: Jackson Hole -- On a Grand Scale. He founded TreeFight, an initiative to inform the public of the plight of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's whitebark pines and to search for solu...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - David Milarch - Ancient Trees For The Future
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)David Milarch is co-founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and a pioneer in the cloning of trees. He works to preserve the genetic heritage of the world's last old growth forest giants. A fourth generation nurseryman from Michigan, he and his sons have propagated more than 90 species, incl...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Kyle Ruddick - One Day on Earth
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kyle Ruddick speaks at TEDxJacksonHole about his Participatory cinema project, One Day on Earth. One Day on Earth invites participants in every country in the world to simultaneously film over a 24-hour period to create a "video time capsule" for humanity and the planet. In the spirit of ideas w...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Juan Martinez - The New Nature Movement
November 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Juan D. Martinez is director for the Natural Leaders Network, an initiative of the Children & Nature Network. Has been named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He dedicates his energy to grassroots campaigns from health care and housing discriminination, to creating garden space where he gr...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Nona Yehia & Jefferson Ellinger - New Architectures: Nature and Phenomena
November 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Nona Yehia and Jefferson Ellinger established the architectural firm, Ellinger/Yehia Design LLC in 2003 to investigate links between architecture, landscape and technology. In 2004, the firm opened an office in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to further explore these inter-relationships. Architects, artis...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Laly Lichtenfeld - Warriors for Wildlife: Saving Lions on the Maasai Steppe
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is an African lion expert working in northern Tanzania to save one of its most threatened lion populations. She is co-founder and executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund and a Yale research affiliate. Lichtenfeld is a member of the National Geographic Big Cat...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Brian Rutledge - The Bird That Won the West
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)With over forty years in local, regional and international conservation, Rutledge has led the National Audubon Society's efforts in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain west for the last seven years. Fostering research on African wild dogs, guiding ecotours to many corners of the globe and managing maj...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Bob Grady - The Care and Feeding of the Innovation Ecoystem
November 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Robert E. Grady chairs New Jersey's $75 billion pension system and runs the private equity firm Cheyenne Capital. He has been head of venture capital at The Carlyle Group, partner at technology investment bank Robertson Stephens, and #3 at the Office of Management and Budget and Deputy Assistant ...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Mike Chamberlain - Whales to Windmills: Inventions Inspired by the Sea
November 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mike Chamberlain is the Manager of Innovation for the Guest Experience at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. In this capacity, he helps oversee the design and development of new initiatives in the guest experience group. A car inspired by a boxfish? A wind turbine blade modeled after a whale's flippers?...
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