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Celebrating the 500th TEDTalk!

Posted on August 28, 2009 by tedx

Today, TED.com releases its 500th TEDTalk: perennial favorite Hans Rosling’s latest data-bubble presentation from TED@State Continue reading →

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TEDxAsheville Speaker Drew Jones to Speak at TEDxBeijing

Posted on August 25, 2009 by tedx

Asheville’s very own enviro-star Drew Jones will be traveling to China to speak at TEDxBeijing on Sept 5. Continue reading →

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Speaker Profile: Dee Eggers

Posted on August 25, 2009 by tedx

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 →

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Speaker Profile: David McConville

Posted on August 24, 2009 by tedx

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 →

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Speaker Profile: Caroline Younge

Posted on August 18, 2009 by tedx

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 →

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Speaker Profile: Drew Jones

Posted on August 11, 2009 by tedx

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 →

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TEDxAsheville Goes Live August 30, 2009 at the Orange Peel!

Posted on August 4, 2009 by tedx

Photo credit: Marja Flick-Buijs The time’s still in flux, but it’s going to be somewhere in the vicinity of 7pm for general public entry, with VIP Guest Seating a little earlier. Save the date, peeps.  I’ll see you at the … Continue reading →

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Asheville’s Own TEDx Coming in Late Summer 2009

Posted on May 17, 2009 by jennifer

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out in California in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from these three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual TED conference now brings together thinkers and … Continue reading →

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