I want you to take a second and think about your childhood. cast your mind back to those simpler days when all we had to do to fix all of our ecological problems was to remember a conveniently alliterative phrase. Reduce, reuse, recycle.What a time. What a scam. Plastic recycling is the red herring of the century.It brilliantly messages us away from holding the companies that are creating the pollution accountable and instead urges us to police our friends, our families, and ourselves. The Washington Post r ...

[Music] [Applause] [Music] Have you ever been to a pada. >> The word pada means shelter in Spanish. And this Mexican tradition commemorates the search for shelter in the nativity story.Every Christmas season, my neighborhood was starts and ends at my parents house. We knock, we sing, some in tune, others not so much, and we ask for shelter. At every door, we're turned away with the same rehearsed verses as we walk from house to house in a candle lit procession on my block. When we finally arrive to my paren ...

Thank you. Thank you all so much for being here. Thank you for the warm welcome.It was really, really nice. It's a real privilege and honor to be here. Um, I've had the honor to meet many of you before, but for those who don't know me, my name is Liz Maris.Um, thanks for coming out tonight. I'm going to hope to inspire you tonight with a short talk on creating meaningful change. So, as you heard, I'm a global advocacy professional.So, it's my job to try and make change and advocate for for good policies. Um ...