![]() “I think there are some unclaimed winning lottery tickets in the middle,” Moss says. We all know “the forgotten middle” - “they’re the students, coworkers and plain old regular folks who are often overlooked because they’re seen as neither exceptional nor problematic,” says activist and former educator Danielle R. She speaks at TEDWomen 2018: Showing Up, November 29, 2018, Palm Springs, California. Moss advocates for “the forgotten middle”: those students and coworkers who are often overlooked but who, when motivated and empowered to succeed, can reach their full potential. “If we each ask ourselves, ‘What can I do to positively impact our economy, our society, our environment?’ - then we will break out of the global challenges that have been created by our take-make-and-waste economy, and we can realize a circular world of abundance,” she says.Īctivist Danielle R. She imagines, for instance, that even clothes and shoes could be leased and returned - with old clothes going back to the designer to reuse the materials for a new batch of clothing. In this circular world, all goods would be designed to be easily repaired and remanufactured. Her idea? To create a circular economy grounded in three tenets: designing out waste, keeping products and materials in use, and transitioning to renewable energy. And with demand for energy and materials only continuing to grow, Brandt’s work is to figure a sustainable path forward. Every time someone completes a search on Google or uploads a video to YouTube, Google’s data centers are hard at work - filled with servers using a significant amount of energy. Brandt, who is in charge of “greening” the tech giant. ![]() “What if, like nature, everything was repurposed, reused and reborn for use again?” asks Google’s head of sustainability, Kate E. “Greening” Google with a circular approach. “It’s about creating a way to live with it.” In a sinking city where every rainfall is a wake-up call, this “amphibious design” provides new hope of making room for water. “This park is not about getting rid of flood water,” she says. Bangkok is a flat city, so by inclining the whole park, it harnesses the power of gravity to collect every drop of rain - holding and collecting up to a million gallons of water during severe floods. ![]() The park is not only a site for recreation and beautification it also helps the city deal with water through some ingenious design. She and her team designed the Chulalongkorn Centenary Park, a big green crack in the heart of Bangkok and the city’s first new public park in more than three decades. In the years since, she’s worked to combine the ingenuity of modern engineering with the reality of rising sea levels to help cities live with climate change. “Our city’s modern infrastructure - especially our notion to fight floods with concrete - has made us extremely vulnerable to climate uncertainty,” she says. Landscape architect and TED Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom comes from Bangkok herself and was displaced, along with millions of others, by the devastating flood that hit Thailand in 2011. At this very moment, 48 major cities across the globe are sinking - cities like New York City, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Bangkok, built on the soft ground alongside their rivers. The session starts with an air of anticipation, thanks to multi-instrumentalist Ane Brun‘s opening number, “It All Starts With One.” This cabaret workout for piano and string quartet is based on “the revolution of dreams” of the Arab Spring, written to celebrate “small victories … that little drop that I, as an individual, can add to the flood of change.” Her intimate follow-up number, “You Light My Fire,” is “a statue in the shape of a song” dedicated to the unacknowledged warriors who fight for women’s rights. Multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Ane Brun kicks off Session 5 with a poised, intimate performance of “It All Starts With One” and “You Light My Fire.” She performs at TEDWomen 2018: Showing Up, on November 29, 2018, in Palm Springs, California.
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