The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: TED Talk

  • Hope for the Planet

    We might just be able to turn climate change around.

  • Um…

    I must confess that I’m not the greatest public speaker in the world. I’m entirely too self-conscious, and much more comfortable deep inside my own head. I have told a few stories in public, though. (You can hear some of them here.) While I’d enjoy being able to speak on TED Talk level, I don’t…

  • Jessica Jackley: The Most Amazing Woman You’ve Never Met

    I was looking around for amazing people to include in a future blog entry, and I thought to myself, “I wonder who founded Kiva.org? For those of you who have never heard of this wonderful organization, Kiva provides microloans to people all over the world and in turn gets those funds from people all over…