TEDxTraverse City- Jerry Dennis-Art of the blind leap-creativity needs risk
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Jerry Dennis is a nationally renowned writer whose essays on nature, culture, and the outdoors have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, National Geographic Traveler, and many other publications. His ten books, including 2009's Traverse City Reads selection, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Se... Read more
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Jerry Dennis-Art of the blind leap-creativity needs risk
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jerry Dennis is a nationally renowned writer whose essays on nature, culture, and the outdoors have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, National Geographic Traveler, and many other publications. His ten books, including 2009's Traverse City Reads selection, The Living Gre...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Carl Erickson-Between Freelance and Coporate America
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Carl Erickson is the co-founder and president of Atomic Object, a 30 person software design and development consultancy. Atomic builds web, mobile and embedded software products for clients ranging from huge multinationals to startups, in diverse markets spanning automotive, healthcare, financial...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Travis Miller- Ecological Design
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ecological Design; using the college campus as a model or resource flows. Travis Miller is a student in the Water Studies Institute at NMC. As a Traverse City native, Travis grew up only steps from the Bay, but it was his experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of a documentary on the global ...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Carl Ganter- Our Water Future
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Our Water Future; Meeting the Challenge of the Century J. Carl Ganter is director and co-founder of Circle of Blue, the international network of leading journalists, scientists and communications design experts that reports and presents the information necessary to respond to the global water cri...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Teresa Carey My American Dream
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)My American Dream In 2008 Teresa Carey made a dramatic change to chase her dreams. She left her job, sold many of her belongings, and moved aboard a small 27 foot sailboat affectionately named Daphne after her grandmother. During the following two years she sailed solo and lived aboard with only ...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Jerry Linenger-Changing Your Perspective
May 29, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Captain Jerry Linenger is a retired United States Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut. A naval academy graduate, he holds doctorates in both medicine and research methodology, as well as dual masters degrees in policy and systems management. He has also been awarded three honorary doctorate de...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Ashley Flees- Uncovering Your Drive
May 31, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)A native of Traverse City, Michigan, Ashley Flees has spent her life thus far inspired by the natural beauty of the surrounding region. Outside of academics Ashley finds grounding and solitude in foraging woodlands for edibles and various vegetation that have practical and ascetic uses. An avid s...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Dominique Jaurola- Humanity is hiding in plain sight
May 31, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Dominique is deeply committed to a better future -- in particular through understanding the human condition: who we are, why we are the way we are, where we would like to go next and how to weave this knowledge into the many contexts where understanding what makes people tick is important. Her ro...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City Ellen Gustafson-30 Project
May 31, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ellen Gustafson co-founded FEED Projects in 2007, creating an immensely popular bag whose profits are donated to the UN World Food Program (WFP). As a former employee of the WFP, she supported their mission to provide school lunches in developing countries so that children could receive both the ...
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