Using lessons learned from movie making, Richard Harding shared stories of overcoming hurdles to make END MALARIA NOW successful in distributing life-saving bed nets. Thank you to Turner Studios for providing in-kind video production services for TEDxAtlanta.

End Malaria Now's mission is to raise consciousness and funding to fight and eradicate malaria; the largest known killer of children in all of Africa.

Szuson Wong presented at the SEED Graduate Institute's 2012 Conference, Wisdom from the Origins: The Mayan Calendar and Other Prophecies on the Future of Humanity. Her workshop, Embody the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine in Becoming Whole and Awakened, addressed giving birth to our new Selves at this important evolutionary juncture of planet Earth. It is essential to embrace and integrate our feminine with our masculine as this harmony and union will empower us to enhance the spiritual evolution of humanity and the planet.

Ms. Wong is Chinese, Kiwi, American, Canadian and a writer, speaker and workshop facilitator. She is a healer, teacher, and author of Guardian of Gaia. She began as a Registered Nurse and continued with a degree in Acupuncture at the Beijing International School of Acupuncture, followed by a Doctorate in Energy Medicine.

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She was interviewed and videotaped by Barry Height of Sustainability Action Media and the video produced and curated by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv.

Dr. Newman is the Director of Clinical Research in the Emergency Department at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and an Iraq war veteran. In addition to being widely published in medical journals he has written health care articles for the New York Times and is the author of Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine. He is also the editor-in-chief for two online publications, TheNNT.com, (The Number Needed to Treat)a resource for health care evidence summaries. Presented by TEDxColumbiaEngineering

Making environmental education fun and engaging for young folks is Victor Davila's passion, leading him to establish EcoRyders, a series of summer workshops that combine environmental and health education with skateboarding. Workshop participants build their own skateboards and learn about pressing environmental issues in their community. EcoRyders offers a way to tackle both high obesity rates among local youth as well as lack of public transportation in the area. He accepts the Brower Youth Award.

The Brower Youth Awards recognize people ages 13 to 22 living in North America who have shown outstanding leadership on a project or campaign with positive environmental and social impact.     

TED takes a look at health and medicine with a conference each year. The 2013 TEDMed conference is April 16-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their YouTube channel features nearly 200 videos from previous conferences.

The message to forget about guarding oneself and masking who you are, rather, to be honest and dismiss the pretense that everyone wil like you or agree with you is essential to furthering cause of sustainability.  The Reverend Renee Ward courageously champions causes close to her heart without worrying about what people think or whether they agree with her.  Her speech was sponsored by TEDxConcordiaUPortland. Their 2012 schedule of speeches is here.

Dr. Murray Coombs writes a letter about the future of children and his work providing HIV vaccines as part of Dow's local outreach.  Born to parents with HIV/AIDS and herself being infected, this 12-year-old girl is a catalyst in the notion that hope is always possible. Set in South Africa, this is the story of determination and perseverance, hope in the midst of adversity, one young girl's will to live and the role of Dow in helping to make her dreams come true.