tedxboston
Planetary
stewardship
summit 2023
The planetary stewardship mission
Our mission is to find the very best ideas on planetary stewardship, to curate them into powerful talks, to tactically distribute and amplify them, and to develop networks to scale these ideas for impact.
We believe that this decade is critical for addressing and developing solutions that scale. Our vision is to bring together a diverse audience that spans generations, attract speakers with world-changing ideas, and build a global ecosystem.
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meet the 2023 cohort
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
2023 Cohort
AJ Kumar
Climate-smart agriculture and social impact
Allen WIlliams
Regenerative Ag for soil preservation
Allison Wolff
Shaping resilient forests
Asegun Henry
New battery tech to box up sunshine
Cady Coleman
A stellar view of earth and collaboration
Carl Safina
Lessons from inside the animal world
Cody Friesen
Democratizing access to safe drinking water
Chris Levesque
Nuclear needs to be part of the solution
Craig McLean
Measuring the ocean’s vital signs
Dan Hammer
AI-enabled open-source Earth intelligence platform
Dava Newman
Crewing our shared Spaceship Earth
David Cash
Scaling climate action requires climate justice
Donnel Baird
Making buildings healthier, smarter, greener and more valuable
Fiorenzo (Fio) Omenetto
Leading the biomaterials revolution
Geoffrey von Maltzahn
Unlocking sustainability with generative biology
Hans Zimmer
Inspiring action through the senses
Irina Gerry
Making dairy without the cows
John Macomber
Building resilient communities and infrastructure
Juan Enriquez
Radical thinking to lower Earth’s temperature by 1ºC
Kari Nadeau
Tools and processes for resilience + adaptation
Kate Slaughter
Ecosystems thought dead can be restored one reef at a time
Kelly Levin
Evidence-based systems change
Ken Lacovara
Avoiding a 6th mass extinction event: lessons from the dinosaurs
Mark Vins
Creating the next generation of eco-influencers
Okalo Ikhena
Using AI to drive behavior change
Sachem Dr. Larry Fisher
The science of indigenous wisdom
Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Scalable, affordable, waterborne transportation
Sean DeWitt
The power of a thriving global restoration economy
Sylvia Earle
Creating marine protected areas for ocean (and planetary) survival
Tenzin Seldon
Emerging trends In climate tech investing
Tod Hynes
Measuring what matters: methane
Una Joy Hornick
Designing an eco- civics curriculum
Amplifiers
Laura Turner Seydel
Yvonne Hao
Libby Wayman
Letise LaFeir
Rep Seth Moulton
Yet-Ming Chiang
Leah Ellis
Richard Swartwout
Yaniv Altshuler
Bruce Friedrich
Nirva Patel
Masami Hayashi
Curtis Ceballos
Alison Sander
Caty Byerly Rezendes
ARTISTS
Kiel Johnson
Josh Simpson
Stephen Wilkes
Hayley Reardon
Randy Preston
Ivana Ustariz
"CPez" Cory Pesaturo
Katherine Taylor
Dave Rezendes
watch the 2022 Highlights
Timed to align with the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, this 2-day event was designed to spotlight actionable ideas for human activity to achieve a sustainable relationship with the planet’s natural systems. 100 talks from a broad range of experts were filmed November 13-14th, 2022 in Boston across 6 venues.
Our approach
Leveraging Boston’s role as a hub for creative climate solutions.
Our event brings together the best of academia, industry, investment, and creativity. We connect leaders already in the conversation with novel viewpoints. By having a global audience descend on Boston, we’re positioned to become the anchor event for impact around sustainability.
Convening key stakeholders.
The right conversation, with the right people, in the right moment can accelerate transformation. Facilitating unexpected connections is in our organization’s DNA. We are a particle collider of impactful ideas and can help create exponential results.
Sharing the most compelling versions of the best ideas.
Our curation process finds the ideas most ready to scale for most immediate impact. Support allows us to create a community around each speaker to scale their vision, with one-on-one and group coaching, professional design consulting, and high production value to create powerful videos that are hosted on the TED platform and amplified on multiple channels.
Translating powerful ideas into compelling stories.
We developed a Content Action Strategy to harvest and promote content from our existing library and produce a 2023 cohort of world-changing ideas. We will continue to test new formats and distribution channels to reach the broadest and most influential audience possible, including leveraging the latest AI content generation tools.