TED Session 3 – Reconnect

Another session where we were challenged, exhorted and faced with the growing reality of our affect on the planet. In all – it’s time to take action, people.

Be and do something!

Seth Godin

Balloon animals
We try to change everything
What is that process like?
SF become the first no kill city in the US (ASPCA)
Then NY, N Carolina, others
Any idea has a lot behind it
We are living through a period where we are changing the way ideas are made
Factories
- efficiency advantage
- cheaper labor and faster machines
Ads
- push
- we have a better mousetrap
- mass marketing means your product has to be average in ideas and needs plenty of ads
- hypnotise the consumer
Tribes
- connect people and ideas
- tribes are everywhere (Ukranian dancers)
- tribes can change things because they want to
- go out and make a movement
- you don’t need everyone (Kevin Kelly)
- heretics are our leaders – they work against the status quo
- don’t be a “sheepwalker”
- you just need a few
Tell a story —> Connect a tribe —> Lead a movement —> Make change —> (loop back)
Leaders mnemonic of C’s
- Challenge
- Culture
- Curiosity
- Connect
- Charisma (given by the tribe)
- Commit
So go create a movement today
We need you to lead us

Saul Griffith

1000 years of history for kites
Wright Bros > kites become toys again
Miles Lloyd > more sky=more power
Maui testing kite powered energy generation
Working toward megawatt scale kites
6Mw from 747-sized kite
All US electricity in 10 years if commitment

Jake Eberts (and Jaques Perrin)

Are we so overwhelmed that we can’t act?
Jaques Perrin is thinking about the creatures of the ocean
Making a film, “Oceans” about life beyond land – 2 years pre-production, 4 years shooting
All latitudes
New techniques of filming to stay with the animals during movement
Amazing footage* – we got a 9 minute sneak peek
Jaques on stage
“This is not about words”
All of us have the same salt percentage in our blood as the ocean – help us return to our origin

Sandy Leong

Her adoptive parents moved to the US for work – lived in Anchorage (doctor)
Sandy adopted
Brother adopted too, 18 months later
Remembers thinking of hospital “this is where babies come from”
When records opened, brother sought information on birth parents
Sandy sought smae info at later date
She and brother received same information about nature of birth parents
Thinking was “Bullshit!” This must be the same information they give to every Chinese extracted adoptee
Really did share the same parents
“If I ever need a kidney…”

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Showed us the TED Commandments
Commandment 10 – “Show the impact”
“My work is to show our impact on the planet”
Amazing, evocative photos of man’s impact – pollution, reduction in food, land degradation, deforestation
We use 3x more oil than we find each year
“We don’t want to believe what we know”
Northern sea ice melt now means new Atlantic-Pacific crossing during Summer
40% reduction in permanent Arctic sea ice over 50 years ago’
Kilimanjaro has lost 80% of its ice
77% of global wild fish stocks now overfished
1B people do not have enough to eat
50K square miles of deforestation a year
20M refugees in the world
5K interviews in the 6 Billion Others project – www.6billionothers.org
www.goodplanet.org
Also filming Home for the last 3 years
We’re moving faster than the planet can sustain
On June 5, Home will be downloadable and have no copyright
“Use it as you want”
“It’s too late to be pessimistic. We are all a part of the solution. Be bold. Act now.”

Matt Harding

Dancing Matt is in Palm Springs!
“100 bajillion views”
Dancing should be fun, natural, easy
New idea – each culture doing their own national dance
Too “It’s a Small World” – cynical
Melissa (Matt’s girlfriend) found the twist in the tale – teach them someone else’s dance
Make connections criss-crossing the globe
Find new solutions to old problems
Want to dance?
Crowd rushes the stage!