I needed to cross my inner border.

This is my community.

We built a community around the idea that where you live Shouldn't determine whether you live

That is where we at OSEA come in. with our roadmap for getting your community power project from vision to reality.

I'm going to share this in my community in Ethiopia.

The second element is that we wanted to have a life, a better life where we can benefit through many things.

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They were the leaders, and we are the leaders of our community and the hope of our future generations.

Part of my community in Serbia.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

In case you can't see what she says... Yeah.

OSEA's Roadmap To Success Workshop will take you on a deep dive into the roadmap tools and techniques.

It's just that I'm in front of a very privileged audience.

And for the first time since high school,

These things make me different from you.

Thinking about death clarifies your life.

My last big point that I really want to share with you is that, even though we have a deaf community, every country has a deaf community.

But we had to do it.

I spent 10 years working at NASA. In the beginning of my time there in 2000, this is the kind of community I was thinking of.

Now the next step that happened is within these communities.

Community

We started something

lets them uh see their path from here to there.

It's a realization that we are the key to our own recovery.

You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community.

At kind of a junction point.

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This is a graph of the Ruby community.

And what I think will be fun to do, is

The Community Energy Partnership Program (CEPP) offers a 90 grant on eligible activities that have the technical, financial and governing feasability of a community project.

It's actually happening now.

We're not all of them, of course, but TED is a community of opinion leaders.

Next, these guys, very similar community that's extremely conducive to innovation.

As we speak right now, women are not being beaten because of the revolutions we've started in our community.

I'm so proud of this.

And that's not exactly what I said, but (Laughter) the point is my role in the community

So that's one thing that we've been working on.

Sure enough, we all buy into that ... (Laughter)

I'm not trying to feed the habit.

He is a bridge figure.

The point is to always advertise in a very popular way to get them to our website.

We need to make this choice together to decide on the vision we want for our community.

And the last is that these bold, new ways that we are exploring as a community will transform the way we look at our planet, our oceans, and eventually how we manage probably the entire planet, for what it's worth.

So, I had one learning community in high school, then I went to another for college, and then I went to another, when I started working at a magazine called Booklist , where I was an assistant surrounded by astonishingly well read people, and then I wrote a book, and like all authors dream of doing,

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