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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] TED
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:08:41 -0400

Stumbleupon led me to this fascinating site with videos of many leading edge folks presenting on *Technology, Entertainment, Design*. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). *The TED Conference*, held annually in Monterey, is still the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend --- indeed, the event sells out a year in advance --- and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and all the big global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter pieces of content, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience. It shouldn't work, but it does. It works because all of knowledge is connected. Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.

Seems like an opportunity for Permaculturists with great slide shows/videos to make a case.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks

I enjoyed the following talks:


Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish
<http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/126>


Stewart Brand on squatter cities
<http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/123>


Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
<http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129>


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Keith Johnson
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also Association for Regenerative Culture
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy) It's a
small world after oil.
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also Bloomington Permaculture Guild





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