Unboundary really out-did themselves this time with hosting TEDx in Atlanta. I want you guys to chime in on this one, because there is some controversial stuff here and the dialogue is GOOD!

Re:learn was a huge success and I think the reason is that there is so much passion about creating situations and environments that foster relationships for social good. Whether that be physical environments or virtual environments technology and humanity are coalescing.

Take these two speakers for example. Gever Tulley and Jane McGonigal. Both address our need for solving the fundamental problem of FUN in solving problems. I cant really say it much better than they have, so I’ll defer to their videos for your viewing and …

You guys are all familiar with these now. These local TED conferences, called TEDx’s here in Atlanta that Unboundary hosts. (x=independantly organized TED event).

Well I’ve done a good bit of writing about these and I’m  about to kick-off the most recent (3rd) installment called RE:LEARN. As with all the TEDx’s so far, we get our brains loose by listening to excellent performers playing powerful music. This TEDx is no different. (See Zoe Keating and Eric Lewis for events prior.)

Enter Billy McLaughlin.

Billy was an famously talented guitarist in his day for his originality and complexity of his compositions and style of playing. However, in the late 90’s Billy was diagnosed …

In another TEDx Atlanta installment, Melissa Kushner (yes, brilliant sister of Marc Kushner, Co-Founder of Architizer) talks about her lessons learned running and operating her organization Goods 4 Good that she started after a few trips to Malawi while with the U.N.. Goods 4 Good is an organization taking surplus’s from US organizations and supplying resources to children less fortunate in developing countries.

However, this talk isn’t entirely about Goods 4 Good, instead it’s about Melissa’s experiences in what she calls ‘5 Steps to International Development’. I think there’s a lot to be learned from these 5 steps even beyond international development and even into the work of our own lives. The 5 …

I just finished writing about one City of the Future: Atlanta competitor, HollwichKushner , and now I’m about to write about another at TEDx Atlanta! Ellen Dunham-Jones led the team from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and talks in the above video about the ideas behind her brilliant book ‘Retrofitting Suburbia‘.

I’ve had the wonderful privilege of watching Ellen give this talk before about the concept, but in a bit more detail than 20 minutes will provide. Although, considering the time allotted, I thought she got out a lot of great data outlining the reasons why as well as a few examples of other places where this has been a successful endeavor making the …

The third TEDx in Atlanta is coming soon and I’ve got some heavy s%#@ to knock out in some posts before then so I’m going to cut right to it this week.

At the last TEDx Atlanta, titled Re:Purpose, there was much-ado about the interpretations of what repurposing really means. Some of it very literal and some not-so-literal. Matthias’ talk above is the latter.

You may have heard of a little thing called Architizer. it’s a social media site for architects and designers and it’s the brainchild of Matthias and Marc Kushner. That’s the most famous bit of their work right now, but the not so famous but arguably most interesting is their project work at the collaborative studio …

TEDx Atlanta never seems to fall short of their performers at the two events so far. Last time I wrote about how my socks were blown away by Eric Lewis and thought there was no way the guys at Unboundary could come up with someone to rival him. However, I was proved wrong. For the second installment of TEDx Atlanta, Re:Purpose, I was blown away yet again by the powerful and seductive cello of Zoe Keating.

Zoe has an amazing background story, which involves her being a classically trained cellist at the age of 8 before entering a ‘phase’ of her life where she becomes a software engineer and information architect during the dot-com boom.

As all …

For all you chaps who didnt know. I’m also blogging (1 post so far) over at my friend Martin’s  blog called “Off the Green Wall“. Martin is the president of Ecoscorecard along with his two business partners Paul and David. These guys are all around awesome, but I’ll save that for another post.

The important thing is that you watch this TEDx Atlanta talk by Gregory Todd Jones about cooperation and collaboration in networks and how vital it is to understanding this movement we’re all in. It’s less about cars, people, buildings and food and more about ourselves and communication.

After you watch, go on over to Off the Green Wall to read …

TED. That’s all that needs to be said. It’s been such a big part of my personal development over the last few years and it’s something that has grown to be so beloved for its accessible brilliance that it’s permeated even the most prominent of new sources today including all over CNN. (it’s about time “good” became mainstream)

Well a lesser known “baby TED” is home right here in my own backyard, and its called TEDx Atlanta. Some of you may have read my earlier posts about the September TEDx, interviews and more, and for others I hope you will read them soon. Even if you don’t really read …

When I wrote about Eric Lewis my prior TEDx post, I was supposed to continually update you with video’s from the conference/gathering here in Atlanta. However, I’ve been waiting to write about the lecturer’s so that I could include video footage which was taken by Unboundary.

Ciannat Howett is the director of Sustainability for Emory University and has done quite a bit for the development of the way Emory operates everything from buildings, to courses, to social events. She is a wonderful speaker and you should definately check out this video.

I love it when she talks about the expectations of the students and reveals that it’s much less about Emory marketing, and more about Emory Education and defining …

As some of you have read in an earlier post, I had the wonderful opportunity of attending the local TED event here in Atlanta. Hosted and curated by Unboundary, the TEDx Atlanta talks were a great way to, like most TED talks do,  leave you thinking for days upon end, playing in the ‘ether’ of ideas. So much so that in fact it has been two weeks since the event and I’m just now getting around to understand what I heard and writing about it in a way that readers can get what I’m talking about.

I’ll start a series of posts (starting with this one) that will talk about each of the …

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I got a chance to sit down with the Tod Martin, CEO of Unboundary in Atlanta and talk about the upcoming TEDx Talks that they are hosting. Watch as Tod talks about when he started attending TED, where and when TEDx Atlanta will take place, who the speakers are, and more!  A full list of TEDx Atlanta speakers can be found HERE.
Also, a big shout-out to Kyle Jones and all of the other cool-cats at Unboundary for the interview and the tour!

So you all might have read my earlier post of excitement about the localities of the TED talks (called TEDx) and now I have a bit more details for the Atlanta event which is just a couple months away. (September 15th, 2009)

Unboundary will be curating and hosting the talks and so far they have some exciting stuff posted up on the TEDx Atlanta website. It looks like Eric Lewis, Dr. Carl Hodges, and Dr. Richard Farson are already up for slated performers/speakers. You can watch Eric Lewis perform and Ray Anderson speak at …

For all you hipsters keen on TED lectures and who can’t get enough of the erratic addition to knowledge, may I suggest viewing one NEAR YOU!

That’s right folks, TED has been piloting these in other cities such as Tokyo with much success and now they are planned for tons of cities around the world!

TEDx Atlanta is coming in September! Visit the site for more details!