TEDx
Ecology and Equity: What’s Possible?
“Think about disposability in the context of plastic water bottles and cheap clothing, and what that’s doing to our planet. Now think about disposability in the context of lives and people and what seeing one another as “disposable” – as having no value, no purpose – is doing to our humanity. At some level, these movements are devoted to the same work, and seeing them as bridged, as interconnected, conjoins the movements for more hands, more troops, more solutions in moving us from disposability to resiliency. Ana likes to be future-facing. She believes there is no time like the present to focus on the future of our planet and of generations to come. As a founding member and Executive Director of Chicagoland’s One Earth Film Festival (“Moving Planet, Moving People”), she is thrilled to be working with an amazing team as it enters its 7th year. Over the past year and a half, and in light of longtime world events, she is captured by the critical work and promise that sits at the nexus of ecology and equity. Ana has spent more than 20 years in digital publishing, marketing, and strategy. She is an active leader in the zero waste schools initiative in Oak Park’s District97, speaks professionally on topics of sustainability, is a green homeowner together with her husband Jim and is proud mama to 3 sharp, sweet young greenies.”
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
