Since he was speaking on a Lowcountry peninsula Wednesday, the Rev. Bill Stanfield couched his community development argument in terms of rivers.
In poorer areas, however, such as the Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood where he now lives and works, most of the money comes from the government and “agencies,” Stanfield said as images and graphics flashed on a screen behind him, and it tends to go to “problems.”
In the upper-income Greensboro, N.C., neighborhood where he grew up, Stanfield explained, most of the capital coursing through was controlled by the citizenry and flowed to “strengths,” such as high-achieving students or institutions.
If I had a million bucks, I'd give it ito Bill Stanfield at Metanoia. Hand it right over.
In the spirit of the "Reinvent" theme at TEDxCharleston (an all-day immersion program happening today at PURE Theatre, designed to enrich the community via a stellar line-up of speakers and exchange of ideas), the Rev from North Chuck (via Princeton Theological Seminary) is reinventing the title "Reverend" with "revolutionary" in the Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood where he's lived and worked for the last 11 years. And he delivered a tight, funny, thoughtful, rousing, well-spun hellfire and brimstone talk In this morning's opening line-up of TEDxCharleston speakers.
TEDx is coming to Charleston with a live, licensed event tomorrow at PURE Theatre downtown.
Because this is the first TEDxCharleston event, the TED license required organizers to limit attendance to 100 people that had to apply to get a ticket.
In late February, organizers streamed the live national TED Conference from Long Beach, Calif., into the Charleston County Library. Attendees were able to see Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talk about the future of technology and hear environmentalist and futurist Stewart Brand discuss genetic breakthroughs that could see the resurrection of the extinct Carolina parakeet.
London, England (CNN) -- It's a windy and misty Sunday afternoon in March in the beautiful coastal town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and bleary-eyed travelers are disembarking from a coach after a two-hour journey from London.
But these are no ordinary tourists. Among them are some of the most influential names in British media and politics, and about 150 of them have descended on this sleepy town, best known for being the home of the late composer Benjamin Britten, to attend the Names not Numbers ideas festival.
Jennifer Baker, an associate professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston, is one of fourteen presenters recently announced for TEDxCharleston. Though Baker’s specific presentation title hasn’t been announced, her core area of interest and study is applying ancient ethical standard to modern day life. TEDxCharleston will be held at PURE Theater in downtown Charleston on May 15, 2013 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Each year we travel to Long Beach, CA for TED and each year, though armed with inspiration anew, we'd leave with scattered notes—hammered out on an iPad or illegibly scribbled alongside speaker bios in the TED program—that hardly do justice to the knowledge we've gleaned. That was until our friend Sheryl Connelly—Ford Motor Company Futurist, TED alum and note-taker extraordinaire—began sharing with us her illustrated record of the creative conference. Her objective notes have given us a much-needed, definitive summary in the past, and this year we've convinced Connelly to share her gift with our readers—available in their entirety as a free, downloadable PDF.
