AVI LOEB

AVI LOEB

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Harvard Astronomer · Theoretical Physicist
NY Times Bestselling Author of Extraterrestrial, The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

If we are not open to discover wonderful things, we will never discover them. It very much depends on us allowing ourselves to explore and find new things. My mother used to tell me when I was a kid that when I was born as an infant I was very different from the other babies in the room. I was looking around with open eyes, and I should say that’s where it all started. Once I got out of the womb of my mother and I started looking around, I was very curious. The great privilege of being a scientist is that you don’t need to give up on that curiosity. You can maintain your childhood curiosity.

(Highlights) ROBERT J. LANG

(Highlights) ROBERT J. LANG

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Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

In origami design, historically people have always used their intuition. They probably started by folding traditional shapes or folding designs by others, developed an intuitive understanding of how the paper behaves and then from there they can explore that intuition to create new shapes. That was the way design worked for years and years, that was the way it worked for me, but I eventually hit a limit to what I could do with my intuition and so part of my motivation for exploring mathematical methods was to externalise some of the design process. If I could get some of the design process on paper in a meaningful way, then I could handle more complicated goals than I could just fit in my brain.

ROBERT J. LANG

ROBERT J. LANG

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Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

In origami design, historically people have always used their intuition. They probably started by folding traditional shapes or folding designs by others, developed an intuitive understanding of how the paper behaves and then from there they can explore that intuition to create new shapes. That was the way design worked for years and years, that was the way it worked for me, but I eventually hit a limit to what I could do with my intuition and so part of my motivation for exploring mathematical methods was to externalise some of the design process. If I could get some of the design process on paper in a meaningful way, then I could handle more complicated goals than I could just fit in my brain.

(Highlights) CARLOS SOUZA, JR.

(Highlights) CARLOS SOUZA, JR.

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Senior Research Associate at Imazon
Technical & Scientific Coordinator at MapBiomas

Find a balance. Use technology. And connect with nature. I think that’s really critical. There is big hope for your generation because you have better environmental education. I can see this. You are more aware of these issues. In terms of the environmental issues that we face now, we need to connect more with nature, to open up your heart for that. You have this amazing opportunity to reach out information to explore technologies through the Internet. What you choose now what we’re going to focus on, it’s really critical.

CARLOS SOUZA, JR.

CARLOS SOUZA, JR.

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Senior Research Associate at Imazon
Technical & Scientific Coordinator at MapBiomas

Find a balance. Use technology. And connect with nature. I think that’s really critical. There is big hope for your generation because you have better environmental education. I can see this. You are more aware of these issues. In terms of the environmental issues that we face now, we need to connect more with nature, to open up your heart for that. You have this amazing opportunity to reach out information to explore technologies through the Internet. What you choose now what we’re going to focus on, it’s really critical.

(Highlights) TANNER WOODFORD

(Highlights) TANNER WOODFORD

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Tanner Woodford is founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and paints large scale typographic murals across public spaces. As a designer, educator, and entrepreneur, he has taught, lectured, and led workshops on design issues, social change, and design history in classrooms and at conferences. He is happy to be scrappy, irrepressibly optimistic, and believes design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition. He lives and works in Chicago, Ill.

TANNER WOODFORD

TANNER WOODFORD

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Tanner Woodford is founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and paints large scale typographic murals across public spaces. As a designer, educator, and entrepreneur, he has taught, lectured, and led workshops on design issues, social change, and design history in classrooms and at conferences. He is happy to be scrappy, irrepressibly optimistic, and believes design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition. He lives and works in Chicago, Ill.

(Highlights) RON GONEN

(Highlights) RON GONEN

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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.


RON GONEN

RON GONEN

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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.


(Highlights) KATHLEEN ROGERS

(Highlights) KATHLEEN ROGERS

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President · EARTHDAY.ORG

On the Importance of Climate Literacy & Training Programs
Not a single country in the world makes–probably one of the most important skills you’ll ever have–which is understanding the planet, a requirement. Nobody graduates from our high schools having those skills.

KATHLEEN ROGERS

KATHLEEN ROGERS

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President · EARTH DAY.org


On the Importance of Climate Literacy & Training Programs
Not a single country in the world makes–probably one of the most important skills you’ll ever have–which is understanding the planet, a requirement. Nobody graduates from our high schools having those skills.

(Highlights) TIEMEN TER HOEVEN

(Highlights) TIEMEN TER HOEVEN

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Founder & CEO of Roetz · Manufacturer of Circular Bicycles & e-Bikes

I think the next crisis is going to be a materials crisis. The whole point of moving from a zero-sum game–like who makes the best cheapest product at the lowest price and can find lowest labor somewhere around the world so someone can be happy with a new laundry machine and buy another one in five years–that’s not going to work for us.

TIEMEN TER HOEVEN

TIEMEN TER HOEVEN

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Founder & CEO of Roetz · Manufacturer of Circular Bicycles & e-Bikes

I think the next crisis is going to be a materials crisis. The whole point of moving from a zero-sum game–like who makes the best cheapest product at the lowest price and can find lowest labor somewhere around the world so someone can be happy with a new laundry machine and buy another one in five years–that’s not going to work for us.

(Highlights) ALAN JACOBSEN

(Highlights) ALAN JACOBSEN

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Director of Photography
Emmy & Sundance Special Jury Award-Winning & Oscar Nominated Documentaries

I hope that film and the story can help people get their heads around these huge ideas that are pretty terrifying and almost hopeless to think about. What can we do? Are we on this track? What have we done to the earth? I think scientists are very much starting to agree that it’s getting to the point where it’s almost too late. So can humans see that far ahead? Can we understand the track we’re on in time? I don’t know, but I’m willing to use whatever tools possible to try to help that conversation happen.

ALAN JACOBSEN

ALAN JACOBSEN

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Director of Photography
Emmy & Sundance Special Jury Award-Winning & Oscar Nominated Documentaries

I hope that film and the story can help people get their heads around these huge ideas that are pretty terrifying and almost hopeless to think about. What can we do? Are we on this track? What have we done to the earth? I think scientists are very much starting to agree that it’s getting to the point where it’s almost too late. So can humans see that far ahead? Can we understand the track we’re on in time? I don’t know, but I’m willing to use whatever tools possible to try to help that conversation happen.

(Highlights) TIES VAN DER HOEVEN

(Highlights) TIES VAN DER HOEVEN

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Creative Director & Co-founder of The Weather Makers holistic engineering company

The story behind The Weather Makers and the whole intention is that five years by accident, I was working in a dredging company and one of the commercial people from Egypt approached me on a question about a lagoon where the fish were disappearing. So we started with this very small thing and set up a whole flow modelling approach, so really from the hydraulics, we could determine what would happen with the fish. And that really was the regretting the Sinai could have a very big impact on the world.

TIES VAN DER HOEVEN

TIES VAN DER HOEVEN

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Creative Director & Co-founder of The Weather Makers holistic engineering company

The story behind The Weather Makers and the whole intention is that five years by accident, I was working in a dredging company and one of the commercial people from Egypt approached me on a question about a lagoon where the fish were disappearing. So we started with this very small thing and set up a whole flow modelling approach, so really from the hydraulics, we could determine what would happen with the fish. And that really was the regretting the Sinai could have a very big impact on the world.

(Highlights) HANS BRUYNINCKX

(Highlights) HANS BRUYNINCKX

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Executive Director · European Environment Agency

I'm a deep believer in the values of democracy, human rights, and the system where civil society and people play a key role in the discussions about society and also assuming responsibility, whether it's through labor unions, youth organizations…I think one key solution at the level of society is more equality. More equal societies bring a lot of advantages. I think that is a critical component to building a sustainable society. We cannot pretend that the current distribution of wealth on this planet between countries and within countries is a fertile ground for longterm sustainability. It isn’t.

HANS BRUYNINCKX

HANS BRUYNINCKX

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Executive Director · European Environment Agency

I'm a deep believer in the values of democracy, human rights, and the system where civil society and people play a key role in the discussions about society and also assuming responsibility, whether it's through labor unions, youth organizations…I think one key solution at the level of society is more equality. More equal societies bring a lot of advantages. I think that is a critical component to building a sustainable society. We cannot pretend that the current distribution of wealth on this planet between countries and within countries is a fertile ground for longterm sustainability. It isn’t.

(Highlights) HANS-JOSEF FELL

(Highlights) HANS-JOSEF FELL

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Hans-Josef Fell
President of Energy Watch Group
Member of German Parliament 1998-2013

Climate scientists forecast that we will see more pandemics, more sickness in people. We have about 8 million people from air pollution every year around the world. So if we want to save their lives so that they do not become ill, we have to stop air pollution. Climate protection is the best contribution to healthcare for humankind.