David Detzler is a degreed chemist and 45-year veteran in the automotive industry, Mr. Detzler offers a unique insider’s view, that challenges his industry and us to get serious in our fight

David Detzler is a degreed chemist and 45-year veteran in the automotive industry, Mr. Detzler offers a unique insider’s view, that challenges his industry and us to get serious in our fight against Climate Change. In his his talk, Mr. Detzler points to the increasing popularity of Carbon Offsets as just another example of an ineffective policy that allows us to continue polluting. Mr. Detzler argues that only real solution is to rid ourselves of our addiction to fossil fuels. David Detzler is a degreed chemist with 45-years of experience in the automotive industry. He attended Michigan State University as a National Merit Scholar and at the age of 20 was invited to take the rare step of conducting research along-side doctoral students and was recognized for his senior thesis identifying the dangers of the chemical 2-4-dichlorophenoxyacetic, what the world would later come to know as “Agent Orange” After University Mr. Detzler become a material’s engineer and later a senior manager at Chrysler Automotive. While with Chrysler Mr. Detzler would research and shepherd in many advancements to the world of coatings, including the first to introduce powder coating (an environmentally safe industrial paint) to the American automotive market. Mr. Detzler continues today in his work pressing Automotive companies and industries as whole to move towards more environmentally conscious manufacturing methods and materials. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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We stand at a critical moment in history for food and farming. During the last century, our extractive farming practices have contributed to the depletion of nature and brought us to the brink of a

We stand at a critical moment in history for food and farming. During the last century, our extractive farming practices have contributed to the depletion of nature and brought us to the brink of a planetary emergency, resulting in climate change, catastrophic biodiversity decline and a crisis for public health. With half of our land now used for agriculture, farmers across the globe have become the primary stewards of nature, climate and health. Yet their delivery of public goods requires redesigning our businesses and industries away from systems based on extraction and growth and towards approaches based on the principles of regeneration, sustainability and the circular economy. During this talk, David Potts shares some of things that Morrisons are doing in order to support sustainable food and farming practices and the supermarket’s involvement in the Global Farm Metric coalition. David Potts CBE is the Chief Executive of the British supermarket, Morrisons. He's worked in retail from the age of 14, rising through through the ranks at Tesco before replacing Dalton Philips as Morrisons CEO in 2015. He was awarded a CBE for his services to employment, skills and apprenticeships in retail in 2013. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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"My Water's On Fire Tonight" is a product of Studio 20 NYU in collaboration with ProPublica.org

"My Water's On Fire Tonight" is a product of Studio 20 NYU in collaboration with ProPublica.org (http://bit.ly/5tJN). The song is based on ProPublica's investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here.

Music by David Holmes and Andrew Bean
Vocals and Lyrics by David Holmes and Niel Bekker
Animation by Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker

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