Ankit Jain is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Over the last five years, he has been part of the Ola Group where he launched multiple businesses including Ola Corporate, Ola Prime Exec, Ola

Ankit Jain is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Over the last five years, he has been part of the Ola Group where he launched multiple businesses including Ola Corporate, Ola Prime Exec, Ola Labs, Ola Play and most recently Ola Electric, a unicorn in its own right, focusing on personal and shared electric mobility. Prior to that, Ankit worked at McKinsey and Company, Inc. in their tech practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ankit is a Siebel Scholar, a Legatum Fellow, and an alum of both IIT Bombay and MIT Sloan. Ankit Jain is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Over the last five years, he has been part of the Ola Group where he launched multiple businesses including Ola Corporate, Ola Prime Exec, Ola Labs, Ola Play and most recently Ola Electric, a unicorn in its own right, focusing on personal and shared electric mobility. Prior to that, Ankit worked at McKinsey and Company, Inc. in their tech practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ankit is a Siebel Scholar, a Legatum Fellow, and an alum of both IIT Bombay and MIT Sloan. 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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Brian Wiedenmeier talks about who needs to be a part of the conversation. "We need to be inviting one another to talk about climate change and its impacts. Everybody needs to be a part of this

Brian Wiedenmeier talks about who needs to be a part of the conversation. "We need to be inviting one another to talk about climate change and its impacts. Everybody needs to be a part of this conversation, from your neighbors and friends, to business owners, elected officials, policy makers ... the stakes are too high for anyone to be left out."

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Short clip of two social entrepreneurs, Randy Paynter from care2.com and Mark Bachman from Better the World talking about their organizations at the SOCAP09 conference

Short clip of two social entrepreneurs, Randy Paynter from care2.com and Mark Bachman from Better the World talking about their organizations at the SOCAP09 conference September 2009 in San Francisco, California.

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Dan Pingaro is the Executive Director of Sailors for the Sea

Dan Pingaro is the Executive Director of Sailors for the Sea (sailingsforthesea.org), the only ocean conservation nonprofit focused on the sailing and boating community. In this interview he talks about the Clean Regatta Program at the America's Cup races held this last September 2013 in San Francisco, California. 

Since July 2011, Sailors for the Sea (Newport, RI) has worked with the America's Cup Event Authority to support the vision and plan of delivering a model sustainability sporting event. In October Sailors for the Sea awarded the 34th America's Cup their highest level Clean Regattas certification!

Dan was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett with support from videographer, David Okimoto of EarthSayers.tv, Voices of Sustainability at the America's Cup Finals in San Francisco, September 10, 2013.

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Black communities have a long and complicated relationship with American soil. The ongoing call to address systemic racism, patterns of abuse, violence and dispossession have brought back to the

Black communities have a long and complicated relationship with American soil. The ongoing call to address systemic racism, patterns of abuse, violence and dispossession have brought back to the mainstream the conversation of BIPOC communities' historical connections to land.

What are the connections between this history and current "food apartheid" (food deserts)? How is the Black farming movement connected to changes in larger food systems and the growth of worker cooperatives? How are people incorporating environmental sustainability into their work? And what can we learn from both the rich history of resistance and current strategies to inform how we resource a world where all people have access to healthy, fresh and locally sourced food?

Join the San Francisco Foundation and The Commonwealth Club of California as Doria Robinson, executive director of Urban Tilth, and Andrea Talley, worker-owner of the Mandela Grocery Cooperative, explore multiple issues and interconnections that surround farming and food access for BIPOC communities. In conversation with Natalie Baszile, noted author of Queen Sugar and We Are Each Other’s Harvest.

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SPEAKERS

Fred Blackwell
CEO, San Francisco Foundation

Doria Robinson
Executive Director, Urban Tilth

Andrea Talley
Worker-Owner, Mandela Grocery Cooperative

Natalie Baszile
Author, Queen Sugar and We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

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