How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

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January 16, 2019 Today's TED Talk How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming 13:48 minutes · TEDWomen 2018 If we really want to address climate change, we need to make gender equity a reality, says writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson. As part of Project Drawdown, Wilkinson has helped scour humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions: obvious things like renewable energy and sustainable diets and not so obvious ones, like the education and empowerment of women. In this informative, bold talk, she shares three key ways that equity for women and girls can help stop global warming. "Drawing down emissions depends on rising up," Wilkinson says. Watch now »   Playlist of the Day Sustainability by design Humans are builders and creators—but how can we build thoughtfully, without waste? These talks explore sustainable design—both past and present—and its beautiful, inspiring results. Watch » 12 talks · Total run time 2:09:56 NEW ON IDEAS.TED.COM Remember people's names once and for all -- by using this technique from memory champs Take the strategy employed by memory athletes to memorize decks of cards and thousands of digits of pi, and adapt it to get over stranger-name forgetfulness. Read more »   Download the TED app

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