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William Winram, Ocean Environmentalist / Shark...
William Winram is noted as an Ocean Environmentalist, Shark Publicist, Underwater Model, Photographer and Videographer. He established himself as one of the few freedivers in the world who can excel in pool and depth competitions, earning several medals at World Championships. After three years of competitive freediving and countless Pan-American records, William started using his breath-hold...
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Darrel Webber, Secretary General, Roundtable on...
With prior working experience in an international environmental NGO and the private sector, in January 2011, Darrel Webber became Secretary General of RSPO. A not-for-profit association that unites stakeholders from seven sectors of the palm oil industry – namely oil palm producers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks and investors, environmental or...
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Sudhanshu Swaroop, Human Rights Barrister
Sudhanshu is a London-based barrister, who has worked on human rights and environmental issues around the world, including in India, Colombia, Afghanistan, Syria and Darfur. He has a particular interest in the relationship between multinational corporations and the environment and is the Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Bar of England and Wales.
[[MORE]] The Legal 500 has...
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Irshad Mobarak, Founder, Natural History Tours
Irshad is one of Malaysia’s most celebrated naturalists with over 26 years experience in the field. A former banker, Irshad is based in Langkawi where he runs a successful bird watching company – Natural History Tours - and is a strong advocate for the conservation of Langkawi’s fragile natural heritage. A self-taught naturalist and outdoor buff, he conducts interpretive walks for...
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Lixin Huang, President, American College of...
Lixin Huang is well-known for her thoughts on consumption reduction of illegal species in traditional medicine. She has been advocating sustainability in Chinese herbal medicine and has spoken widely on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
[[MORE]] ACTCM has led the way in bridging the cultural and communication divide between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and international conservation...
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Tim 'Mac' Macartney
Mac is the CEO and founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise located in Devon, United Kingdom, that seeks to inspire committed action towards a truly sustainable world. He has also co-founded a leadership development consultancy in Poland. Mac has been coaching and developing leaders from the corporate world since 1984 and has recently published his first book Finding Earth, Finding Soul.
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WatchJames Alexander talks about the financial and social reward of being part of a peer to peer money market.
James Alexander will be joining us at TEDxWWF to talk about “Creativity vs. Climate Change”.
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Will Day: 'Is the world's current economic model...
TEDxWWF Talk: Will will look at what we currently understand of global trends, particularly focusing on issues like population, water and ecosystem health. He will also share his analysis of the the perverse incentives in the current model by which we live - the things we measure, things we value, and the short term nature of our demands. This all calls into question the ability of the planet to...
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James Alexander: 'Creativity versus climate...
What if creativity and smart marketing could be combined to help inspire people to lead a greener life? James will show us how it could be done.
James Alexander is a Partner at The Foundation
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Michael Spencer: 'Sound and Sustainability'
One of the most evocative relationships we make with the natural world is through its sounds. As an abundant source of information they have influenced our survival rate and enriched our cultures and traditions. Erosion of these connections not only impoverishes our aural spectrum but marks a loss of the implicit knowledge that is held within.
Michael Spencer is a musician
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Justin Hall-Tipping: 'The Power of the Simple...
Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups - mastering the electron to create power.
Some of our most serious planetary worries revolve around energy and power - controlling it, paying for it, and the consequences of burning it. Justin Hall-Tipping had an epiphany about the need for finding and harnessing new forms of energy after seeing footage of a chunk of ice the size of his home state...
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Emmanuel De Merode: 'A Story of Conflict, Renewal...
TEDxWWF Talk: The presentation, an account of the struggle to save one of the world’s great national parks with its population of mountain gorillas, renders accessible to an audience one of the darkest conflicts in recent history, the bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is not just a story of bleak and bloody facts: ultimately it is a story of determination and courage and...
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Stuart Orr: 'Water: The Solvable Crisis.'
TEDxWWF Talk: A discussion about how governments, business and consumers can create solutions to save the stuff of life.
Stuart Orr is the Head of WWF’s Freshwater Programme
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Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy Group...
Click here for Rory’s TEDxWWF talk
Rory is an expert in brand identities, cutting edge interactive campaigns and behavioural economics .
Born in Usk, Monmouthshire in 1965, Rory read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before joining Ogilvy as a Graduate Trainee in 1988. After 18 months spent as the world’s worst account handler (as a desperate remedial measure he was once booked...
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Dawa Steven Sherpa: 'Initiating Action'
TEDxWWF Talk: Dawa will be talking about how we all have a natural urge to better the world we live in, but due to the obstacles placed before us we give up before we even start. He shares stories of how he managed to start working on small ideas, developing them until they are joined and continued by a bigger mass.
Dawa Steven Sherpa is a Mountaineer and Environmentalist
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Isabelle Autissier: 'Lessons from the Sea'
TEDxWWF Talk: Having had the opportunity to sail around the world, solo, four times, Isabelle has been profoundly moved by her experiences. She will share with us some of the things that the sea has taught her about life and living on our planet.
Isabelle Autissier is a sailor, navigator and writer
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Rory Sutherland: 'The New Sweet Spot - And How to...
TEDxWWF Talk: Rory will share with us his views on how the most interesting scientific work nowadays comes often not from within a single discipline but from the happy collision of different fields. In the same way the most interesting business ideas may come from a new combination of old approaches.
Rory Sutherland is Vice Chairman at Ogilvy Group UK
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Dr. Carlos Drews: 'The faces of conservation'
TEDxWWF Talk: In our globalized world, species conservation is no longer about local solutions to local problems. Dr. Carlos Drews argues that because we are all connected, conservation is everybody’s business.
Dr. Carlos Drews is WWF’s Global Species Programme Director
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Andy Wales: 'The Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why...
TEDxWWF Talk: We are used to tackling challenges as single issues - rainforest depletion, overfishing, water scarcity - to name but a few. NGOs run compelling campaigns on single issues, companies develop issue-based targets, and most critically governments set policy and regulation in issue-based silos. But the scale of the resource crunch that we will see in the coming 20 years, with 3 billion...
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Kamal Quadir: 'Audacity to take Part'
TEDxWWF Talk: Digital platforms are increasingly becoming available in poor countries at a reasonable cost, and so is the endless flow of innovative applications that are riding on those platforms. The trick is to make poor people see that they are already well armed to take part in the revolution.
Kamal Quadir is the CEO of bKash
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Jason Clay: 'Feeding 9 Billion and Maintaining the...
TEDxWWF Talk: The presentation explores why food production is the most important conservation issue in the 21st century, where we stand today and with ‘business as usual’ projections for 2050, and what the nine food wedges are that would allow us to produce enough food for all, but still have a planet. There is no silver bullet to solve this problem, but there is something that each of us can...
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Jane Fulton Suri: 'What Nature Can Teach Us About...
TEDxWWF Talk: As designers we’re inspired by looking at the world. Most often we take an exclusively human-centered view, but we’ll learn more if we broaden that view to include the natural world. If we’re curious and look carefully, nature will teach us to design for human needs and desires in more elegant and sustainable ways.
Jane Fulton Suri is a Managing Partner and...
September 2011
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Isabelle Autissier, sailor, navigator and writer
Click here for Isabelle’s TEDxWWF talk
Bio: Isabelle is a French solo yachtwoman, and the first woman to have sailed around the world in a competition. She is also Vice-Chair of the group in charge of the delicate meeting between the sea and the Earth within the political process known as the “Grenelle de la mer”.
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Mike Barry: 'A Manifesto for a Sustainable...
TEDxWWF Talk: We are living beyond our environmental and social means in the developed world and, on current trajectories, in the not too distant future a growing middle class in the developing world will too. There is a growing recognition amongst businesses of the risks this poses to the long term stability and vitality of the global economy, but few businesses know how to make their business...
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Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks...
Click here for Mike’s TEDxWWF Talk
Bio: Mike was part of the small team that developed the company’s groundbreaking Plan A, a 100 point, 5 year plan to address a wide range of environmental and social issues. He helps provide the vision and the energy to affect change and ensure a leading but efficient approach to sustainability across the company.
His working life is broadly...
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Stuart Orr, Freshwater Programme, WWF...
Click here for Stuart Orr’s TEDxWWF Talk
Stuart has been with WWF since 2006 and works with the private sector on a range of water related activities, from water footprint to public policy engagement.
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James Alexander, The Foundation
Click here for Jame’s TEDxWWF talk
James is a highly innovative and practical business creator, builder and strategist. He is currently a Partner of The Foundation, a leading specialist growth consultancy, a Trustee for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and a Trustee and former CEO of Green Thing, a public service that inspires people to lead a greener life.
James is a...
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Justin Hall-Tipping, Science Entrepreneur
Click here for Justin Hall-Tippings’s TEDxWWF Talk
Justin works on nano-energy startups - mastering the electron to create power. Justin had an epiphany about energy after seeing footage of a chunk of ice the size of his home state (Connecticut) falling off Antarctica into the ocean, and decided to focus on science to find new forms of energy.
A longtime investor, he formed Nanoholdings...
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Jane Fulton Suri, Managing Partner and Creative...
Click here for Jane Fulton Suri’s TEDxWWF Talk
Jane created Thoughtless Acts? Observations on Intuitive Design (Chronicle Books, 2005), a collection of snapshots that depict the subtle and creative ways in which people interact with the world. Jane believes that everyone is creative and resourceful at heart and finds great rewards when tapping into that capacity.
Jane Fulton Suri is...