Watch a panel featuring Geraldine Link, National Ski Areas Association, Mike Mielke, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Joseph Brinkley, Fetzer Vineyards, help us understand what effective climate

Watch a panel featuring Geraldine Link, National Ski Areas Association, Mike Mielke, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Joseph Brinkley, Fetzer Vineyards, help us understand what effective climate advocacy looks like for real businesses and why they support carbon pricing policies. Find out more at: https://energyinnovationact.org https://businessclimateleaders.org https://citizensclimatelobby.org Your voice as a business leader is needed. We are seeing the impact of the climate crisis to businesses and industries across the country everyday. The Business Advocates for Carbon Pricing conference is designed to help you learn more about Carbon Pricing, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, and how you can support them to address the climate crisis. Whether you have endorsed the policy already, or just want to learn more, this event is for you and your business. Join us to see how you can take action to get this important legislation across the finish line. CCL empowers everyday people to work with their community and their members of Congress on climate change solutions. Our supporters cover the political spectrum and work in more than 450 local chapters. Together, we’re building support for a national bipartisan solution to climate change.

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Researcher/Programmer Michalis Vitos and the ExCiteS team, which is based at UCL, created an app that allows the indigenous people of Congo to map the resources that are important to them and track

Researcher/Programmer Michalis Vitos and the ExCiteS team, which is based at UCL, created an app that allows the indigenous people of Congo to map the resources that are important to them and track trespasses from companies that operate in the area. Through a process that was eye-opening for both sides, researchers and indigenous people alike learned that technology, when designed with the user in mind, can be a valuable tool in protecting both the environment and the most isolated populations on the planet. Μπορεί η τεχνολογία να σώσει τους ιθαγενείς και το περιβάλλον τους; Ο ερευνητής/προγραμματιστής Μιχάλης Βίτος και η ομάδα ExCiteS του πανεπιστημίου UCL έφτιαξαν μια εφαρμογή που επιτρέπει στους ιθαγενείς του Κογκό να καταγράφουν τους φυσικούς πόρους που είναι σημαντικοί γι' αυτούς αλλά και να παρακολουθούν τις αυθαιρεσίες των υλοτόμων. Μέσα από μια διαδικασία που δίδαξε πολλά και στις δύο πλευρές, οι ερευνητές και οι ιθαγενείς διαπίστωσαν ότι η τεχνολογία, όταν σχεδιάζεται με επίκεντρο τον χρήστη, μπορεί να γίνει εργαλείο προστασίας τόσο του περιβάλλοντος όσο και των πιο απομονωμένων πληθυσμών του πλανήτη. Michalis is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, working with the ExCiteS research group at UCL (University College London). For the past 5 years he has been developing innovative mobile tools that can be used by semi-nomadic and non-literate indigenous communities in the Congolese rainforest to monitor environmental changes and resource extraction in scientifically validated ways. His research interests include the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in combination with the emerging area of Participatory GIS and Citizen Science. 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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On March 29, 2010, a coalition of environmental and social justice organizations, Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge, led by the consumer advocacy group

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