World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments w/ AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL - Highlights

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments w/ AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL - Highlights

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Poet & Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments

I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn’t know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall’ to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL - Poet & Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL - Poet & Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments

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Poet & Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments

I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn’t know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall’ to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.

The Waste Free World: How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More & Save the Planet w/ RON GONEN - Founder/CEO, Closed Loop Partners - Highlights

The Waste Free World: How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More & Save the Planet w/ RON GONEN - Founder/CEO, Closed Loop Partners - Highlights

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Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners
Former Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

We live in buildings and cities because that’s what generates a living for a lot of people, but where we’re most comfortable as humans is when we’re in nature. Your generation owns this. Don’t let anybody take it from you or damage it because you own it. The next generation is the one that owns it and view it with a sense of ownership and a sense of pride and a sense of protection because there are a lot of benefits you get from nature.


Can We Achieve a Waste-Free World? - RON GONEN - Fmr. Deputy Commissioner, Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

Can We Achieve a Waste-Free World? - RON GONEN - Fmr. Deputy Commissioner, Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

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Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners
Former Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

We live in buildings and cities because that’s what generates a living for a lot of people, but where we’re most comfortable as humans is when we’re in nature. Your generation owns this. Don’t let anybody take it from you or damage it because you own it. The next generation is the one that owns it and view it with a sense of ownership and a sense of pride and a sense of protection because there are a lot of benefits you get from nature.


Monster: Taming the Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives & Future w/ BEN PRING - Highlights

Monster: Taming the Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives & Future w/ BEN PRING - Highlights

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Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work
Author of Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule Our Jobs, Lives

They’re single-purpose engines doing one thing in extraordinary ways, and they’ve been encouraged in that by the ecosystem around them, by the funding that’s being pumped into them by people whose only motivation is simply to make more money–and you can see the results of that in the world as this technology has grown from a little acorn to now being the biggest Sequoia in the forest. And it’s shading every other tree, it’s taking all the light, it’s taking all the energy from the forest, and it’s distorting so much in the world.

What To Do When Machines Do Everything - BEN PRING, Director, Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work

What To Do When Machines Do Everything - BEN PRING, Director, Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work

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Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work
Author of Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule Our Jobs, Lives

They’re single-purpose engines doing one thing in extraordinary ways, and they’ve been encouraged that by the ecosystem around them, by the funding that’s being pumped into them by people whose only motivation is simply to make more money–and you can see the results of that in the world as this technology has grown from a little acorn to now being the biggest Sequoia in the forest. And it’s shading every other tree, it’s taking all the light, it’s taking all the energy from the forest, and it’s distorting so much in the world.

Build Bridges, Not Walls - A Journey to a World Without Borders w/ TODD MILLER - Highlights

Build Bridges, Not Walls - A Journey to a World Without Borders w/ TODD MILLER - Highlights

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Journalist & Author
Build Bridges, Not Walls · Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration & Homeland Security

In 2003, the Pentagon commissioned a report titled something like An Abrupt Climate Scenario. They asked some independent researchers to look at what would happen in a worse case scenario. They found that the United States and Australia. They said that they would have to put up defensive fortresses ‘to stop unwanted starving immigrants’…