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Solitaire Townsend: Are ad agencies, PR firms and lobbyists destroying the climate?

An unnoticed industry worth two trillion dollars a year is influencing almost every carbon emission. Sustainability solution seeker Solitaire Townsend calls this sector the "X industry" (where "X" stands for influence), and it includes professional services like advertising and PR firms, management consultancies, corporate law firms, lobbyists a...
https://www.ted.com/talks/solitaire_townsend_are_ad_agencies_pr_firms_and_lobbyists_destroying_the_climate

Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes

What do we really know about mosquitoes? Fredros Okumu catches and studies these disease-carrying insects for a living -- with the hope of crashing their populations. Join Okumu for a tour of the frontlines of mosquito research, as he details some of the unconventional methods his team at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania have developed t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/fredros_okumu_why_i_study_the_most_dangerous_animal_on_earth_mosquitoes

Solitaire Townsend | TED Speaker

Cofounder and chief solutionist of global agency Futerra, Solitaire Townsend argues that the creative industries can’t be neutral in the face of the climate crisis.
Sustainability solution seeker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/solitaire_townsend

Bart Weetjens | TED Speaker

The founder of Apopo, Bart Weet­jens, is train­ing rats to detect landmine explosives in minute amounts.
Product developer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bart_weetjens

Danielle N. Lee | TED Speaker

Danielle N. Lee examines the ecology and natural history of nuisance rodents, using hip-hop to share science with broader audiences.
Behavioral biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/danielle_lee

Anushka Ratnayake | TED Speaker

Founder and CEO of myAgro, Anushka Ratnayake and her team work with rural farmers to help them move themselves out of poverty.
Poverty fighter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anushka_ratnayake

Zachariah Mampilly | TED Speaker

Zachariah Mampilly is an expert on the politics of both violent and non-violent resistance.
Political scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/zachariah_mampilly

Patrick Awuah | TED Speaker

After working at Microsoft for almost a decade, Patrick Awuah returned home to Ghana and cofounded Ashesi University, a small liberal arts college that aims to educate Africa's next generation of leaders. Its first class of students graduated in 2006.
University founder
https://www.ted.com/speakers/patrick_awuah

Amar Inamdar | TED Speaker

Amar Inamdar works with businesses and entrepreneurs to imagine, create and grow markets that address our biggest social and environmental challenges.
Investor, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/amar_inamdar

Su Kahumbu | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is working to improve farmer livelihoods and contribute to nutritional security and environmental sustainability.
Agriculturalist, social entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/su_kahumbu

Meklit Hadero | TED Speaker

Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter living the cultural in-between, both in her own luminous compositions and as a co-founder of the Nile Project.
Singer-songwriter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/meklit_hadero

Rose Goslinga | TED Speaker

Rose Goslinga isn’t your typical insurance salesperson. Through the Syngenta Foundation, her team developed insurance solutions to assist small-scale farmers in Africa, to safeguard their crops in case of droughts.
Microinsurer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rose_goslinga

TEDxMajengoSalon - an independently organized event

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Event details: Arusha, Tanzania · August 26, 2022
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/52005

TEDxUniversityOfDarEsSalaam: TEDxUniversityOfDarEsSalaam 20211218 - an independently organized event

About this event: As the world is rapidly changing, Tanzania is changing with it. These changes occurring all over the world give birth to different gaps in different sectors and they affect our communities in various ways. Gaps can be in different kinds in our communities, for instance, educational gap, employment gap, technology gap, talent gap, economic gap, g...
Event details: Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · December 17, 2021
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/48732

TEDxEuston - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxEUSTON continued the conversations started at TED GLOBAL in Arusha, Tanzania. Exploring the issues that matter to Africa and Africans. We stayed true to the spirit of the TED conference, hosting fascinating thinkers and doers
Event details: Herfordshire, United Kingdom · December 5, 2009
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/368

Wanuri Kahiu | TED Speaker

Wanuri Kahiu wants to curate, commission and create art that celebrates fun, fierce and frivolous Africa.
Filmmaker, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/wanuri_kahiu

TEDxDar - an independently organized event

About this event: The TEDxDar Conference is intended to begin a process of public engagement and exchange of ideas in relation to innovation, society, culture, arts- a wide range of interdisciplinary issues that pertain to Tanzania at a local and global level. The forum is based on the belief in active discourse and public engagement in reaction to institutional ...
Event details: Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania · May 22, 2010
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/441

Walé Oyéjidé | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Walé Oyéjidé combats bias with creative storytelling.
Designer, writer, musician, lawyer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/wale_oyejide

Nabila Alibhai | TED Speaker

Nabila Alibhai leads inCOMMONS, a new cultural production lab focused on invigorating public spaces and inspiring collective responsibility for our cultural and environmental heritage.
Place-maker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nabila_alibhai

TEDxDar: "Who killed Zinjanthropus?" - an independently organized event

About this event: “Who Killed Zinjanthropus?” With Tanzania approaching its 50 years jubilee of independence, we are using Zinjanthropus – a fossil of early man discovered in Tanzania – as a metaphor for revered history and evolution as we attempt to navigate the clung-to and forsaken past as well as the future we appear to be striving for. We invite you to he...
Event details: Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania · November 26, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1083

TEDxYouth@Msasani - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxYouth@Msasani is an independently organized, youth-centered TEDx event and will be happening for the first time in early 2017. In doing this, we hope to bring together and share ideas between all youth in Tanzania. The theme for our event is 'Creating Reality'.
Event details: Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · February 11, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/20586

TEDxYouth@PickeringValley: Helping others - an independently organized event

About this event: Our event was an hour-long school assembly. We had two speakers there: Kit Mellott, a woman who worked with orphaned children in Tanzania, and Brian Hillestad, who grows and sells hydroponic vegetables with a staff of veterans. We shared TED videos by Hannah Brencher, the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, and Joe Smith. All of our friends use the paper tow...
Event details: Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, United States · March 22, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/8168

Timothy Ihrig | TED Speaker

Timothy Ihrig advocates for an approach to healthcare that prioritizes a patient's personal values.
Palliative care physician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/timothy_ihrig

TEDxIlala - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxIlala is an independently organized TEDx event and will be happening for the first time in 2015. Our aim is to bring people together and share ideas in the heart of the city of Dar es Salaam. The theme for our event will be Yes, In My Lifetime. TEDxIlala ni tukio la TEDx lililoandaliwa na watu binafsi na litafanyika kwa mara ya kwanza hapa ...
Event details: Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · September 4, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/13353

TEDxYouth@UWCEA: TEDxYouth@UWCEA 20220312 - an independently organized event

About this event: We were bounded only by the earth and the ocean and the sky. Despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. Testaments of this are our unimaginable technical marvels and unfathomable pieces of art and wisdom. We have come so far and are yet farther to come. What brought us this far is our faith in each other and i...
Event details: Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania · March 11, 2022
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/49294

TEDxYouth@ZanakiSt: TEDxYouth@ZanakiSt 20200425 - an independently organized event

About this event: A world where everyone is independent of their own thoughts, ideas, perspectives and beliefs- we believe that we are more similar than different. We believe everyone relates to another person in some way or another. Hence, that connection relates to our theme, Building Bridges.
Event details: DSM, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · July 10, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35572

TEDxMajengoSalon - an independently organized event

About this event:
Event details: Arusha, Arusha, Tanzania · December 5, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/52003

TEDxMajengoSalon: TEDxMajengoSalon 20220917 - an independently organized event

About this event:
Event details: Arusha, Arusha, Tanzania · September 16, 2022
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/51952

TEDxMajengo - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxMajengo aims to spark curiosity, open minds, and bring together unexpected connections leading to new community-centric initiatives, collaborations, or movements in Arusha. The event will generate networking, interacting and linking between 100 attendees from a range of backgrounds and professions. Of these attendees, 25 fully subsidized tic...
Event details: Arusha, Arusha, Tanzania · October 5, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/30501

TEDxYouth@Upanga - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxYouth@Upanga is hosted by the International School of Tanganyika for the past 3 years. It is organized by a group of dedicated high school students. The event will bring together youth from around the Dar es Salaam community under one roof to share ideas and explore different perspectives of the theme Breaking Boundaries.
Event details: Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · March 22, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/31398
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