Category Archives: 2009 Speakers
Smashing Success! TEDxAsheville 2009 Rocks The House and Blows Minds
2009 TEDxAsheville totally blew the lid off of everyone’s expectations. Our speakers were incredible. The performers were outstanding… Continue reading
Speaker Profile: Robert Zimmerman
Robert Zimmerman is a coder, web innovator, illustrator and game designer, and the creator of ClassJump.com, a provider of free websites to teachers world-wide. Continue reading
TEDxAsheville Speaker Drew Jones to Speak at TEDxBeijing
Asheville’s very own enviro-star Drew Jones will be traveling to China to speak at TEDxBeijing on Sept 5. Continue reading
Speaker Profile: Dee Eggers
A professor at UNC Asheville in the Environmental Studies Department, Dee is the subject of a student-created Facebook page calling her the “real-life Captain Planet” and the next Aldo Leopold. Continue reading
Speaker Profile: David McConville
David McConville is a West Asheville-based media artist and theorist whose work addresses the influence of sensory perception on the construction of worldviews, primarily through visualizing invisible phenomena that enhance awareness of humanity’s impact on ecological systems. Continue reading
Speaker Profile: Caroline Younge
After a long spiritual search, Caroline committed to a Buddhist mindfulness practice in 1990 and has since become a Lay Buddhist Minister in the Soto Zen tradition. In 1995, she began working towards a greater understanding of the death and … Continue reading
Speaker David McConville presents “The Transcalar Imaginary: Visualizing Worldviews” at Stanford Aug 12-14
Photo Credit: Dimitri Castrique Visualizing Worldviews in the GeoDome at Stanford “By shifting our perspectives on the maps we create, it seeks to expand perceptions of the world and our relationship to it – our ultimate goal for the GeoDome … Continue reading
Speaker Profile: Drew Jones
Drew works with Asheville’s Sustainability Institute, a U.S. not-for-profit organization founded by Donella Meadows. Trained in System Dynamics modeling at Dartmouth College and MIT, Drew worked on the 1993 “Greening of the White House” as part of Rocky Mountain Institute … Continue reading