TEDxTU - Candy Chang - I Wish This Was _____
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Candy Chang is an artist, designer, urban planner, and TED Senior Fellow who makes cities more comfortable for people. Her experience in design, street art, and urban planning informs many of her projects, which use public space to spark dialogue and engage citizens with their cities and with one another. She is a Tulane University Urban Innovat... Read more
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- -: TEDxTU - Candy Chang - I Wish This Was _____
February 7, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Candy Chang is an artist, designer, urban planner, and TED Senior Fellow who makes cities more comfortable for people. Her experience in design, street art, and urban planning informs many of her projects, which use public space to spark dialogue and engage citizens with their cities and with one...
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- -: Will Extreme Poverty Ever End?
February 2, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Google Tech Talk January 13, 2012 Presented by Jake Harriman. ABSTRACT $2.3 trillion in aid and thousands of NGOs have worked to ease the suffering of the poor; yet 1.4 billion people still remain locked in the cycle of extreme poverty. In the face of such an enormous, global challenge, why on...
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- -: TEDxTucson2011 Kristin Wolff Weadership
February 5, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Kristin Wolff - Weadership: A lover of Tucson, Kristin is a leading social innovator from Portland who also happens to be a graduate of the University of Arizona. In this talk Kristin shares her ideas of how we all can assume leadership in creating community resiliency. Kristin is an adjunct memb...
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- -: TEDxBYU - Martin Burt - Unexpected Social Innovations
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Martin Burt, Founder and CEO of Fundacion Paraguaya, discusses how microfinance works. If we respect the dignity of people and trust them, then microfinance will be most effective. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-org...
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- -: TEDxBYU - Mike Murray - 9 Tips for Innovation
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Mike Murray's career has been surrounded by innovation. He has worked directly for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. He co-founded Unitus, the world's first microfinance accelerator that helped mobilize 15 million microcredit loans. Murray captures nine insightful observations designed to help you conne...
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- -: TEDxBYU - Sini-Tuulia Sohkanen - Merging Innovation Through Music
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)A Junior majoring in violin performance at Brigham Young University, Sini-Tuulia plays the First Movement A la Mod from Eugene Ysaye 4th Violin Solo Sonata. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring...
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- -: TEDxBYU - Jessamyn Lau - Get a Mohawk
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jessamyn Lau describes her first of many mohawks as she makes a case for bold, impermanent choices. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our even...
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- -: TEDxBarcelona - Kavita Palmar - The IOU Project
July 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Todos vestimos prendas de ropa, pero después de poder decir la marca y donde se compró, no sabemos nada sobre el proceso de producción. Ese proceso empieza muchos meses antes, cuando el diseñador busca ideas, mientras en las fábricas se produce a gran velocidad, generando muchos residuos y en con...
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- -: TEDxKC - Marcin Jakubowski - Civilization Starter Kit
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a "civilization starter kit." Declaring that, "We can lead self-sustaining lives without sacrificing our standard of living," Marcin Jakubowski believes that only by openin...
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- -: TEDxKC -- Patrick Meier -- Changing The World, One Map At A Time
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Maps have always been a source of fascination and intrigue. Today's maps, however, can also help to save lives during disasters, document human rights abuses and monitor elections in countries under repressive rule. This presentation will explain how today's live maps can combine crowds and cloud...
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