TEDxKids@BC - Veronika Bylicki - Transforming our Cities: The Ultimate Urban Sustainability

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Veronika is a passionate 17-year-old who is determined to make a positive difference in the world around her! After changing schools for a yearlong Outdoor and Environmental Education Program in grade 10, Veronika became passionate about sustainability and since then has dedicated herself to spreading awareness and taking action for the environment. She loves to learn and believes in turning knowledge into action; she co-created an innovative youth conference, Plan-It Earth, about urban sustainability in 2010 and 2011, and works with Metro Vancouver to make schools across the region greener. Veronika's hobbies include photography, sports, learning cheesy jokes, and biking along the Vancouver seawall.

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ABOUT THE TALK

What did your city look like 100 years ago? Would you have envisioned and created it to look and work the way it does today? We live in a world where our homes are constantly changing: as the population increases, our cities are transforming around us. With an estimated 50% of the world's population living in cities, we must create and rethink solutions to make our ways of living in cities more sustainable. Veronika will talk about how throughout these growing changes, it is an opportunity for all citizens to not only be empowered and engaged, but also excited to contribute to positive change in our communities, creating the ultimate urban sustainability.

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ABOUT TEDxKIDS@BC

The mission of TEDxKids@BC is to help create a world in which the kids have been invited to explore their passions and to contribute in realizing such a world for the youth in our community. To accomplish this, we're trying to build platform for facilitating opportunities to empower kids and help them apply their passions. Find out more at http://www.tedxkidsbc.com

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ABOUT TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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