Welcome to TEDxLAMiracleMile.
What people are saying about TEDxLAMiracleMile
"What a fantastic event! Maurice and the team at TEDxLA Miracle Mile put together a first-class program that was both stimulating and enlightening. The speakers, the venue, and the tone set by the group made it 110% worth participating – a true ‘mini-TED’."
Sonia Arrison - Author, 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith
Maurice carries the “sharing of knowledge” torch with such great enthusiasm and ease for TEDx Miracle Mile where the “Creating Possible Worlds” themed event seemed virtually flawless. The entire team of TEDxMiracle Mile worked hard at making the guest speakers, the audience, and the choice of venue a perfect match. It was an honor to be invited to share what’s up in my world. Here’s to listening, loving, and laughing more!!
Stan Evenson - CEO/Creative Director of Evenson Design Group
"Maurice Kaehler is a natural and committed social entrepreneur with seemingly unlimited energy. He isn't afraid to take on projects that have a useful social benefit, even when they are not safely in the mainstream. He has enormous integrity and gets the job done."
Howard J. Brown - Co-Founder of dMASS and Chairman of o.s.Earth
Being part of the TEDxLA Miracle Mile conference at UCLA made me realize that the answers are already out there. The sharing of creative ideas empowers everyone to think better and to imagine a better future for all. Audience participation is great – we are all part of the solution!
Laura Avery - Manager/Santa Monica Farmer's Market
I had the most wonderful time meeting, and coming away completely inspired, by people who participated in the TEDx event - Food and Food Systems in the 21st Century. The event opened my mind to new ideas, thoughts, hopes and dreams. I like to think of it as a gift of a day for me.
Tara Kolla - Silverlake Farms
This was my first experience of a TEDx event and what a wonderful first impression. How to feed the world’s ballooning population is not an easy question; but the range of responses provided by the event’s diverse speakers and audience members was fascinating. Food for thought? More like mind-expanding intellectual nourishment.
John Marshall - Biologist/Imperial College London
The TEDx LAMM event did an amazing job of putting together a diverse group of visionary people to talk about the future of food and the big, giant, world changing shift from 20th century industrialization to 21st century sustainability. Beyond the complex solutions of ecology design and genetic engineering, the grassroots examples of urban farming and farmer markets showed that some amazing things can happen in our own backyard - literally! Of course, I never knew her personally, but I think Jane Jacobs would be proud.
Dan Benporat
Miind-stretching ideas, friendly atmosphere, wonderful people. To learn about good work and inspiring insights has nourished us, and nourishment continues in conversations with other participants. At Food and Food Systems, we couldn't help noticing that again and again, in different ways, speakers pointed out nature's astonishing capacity for regeneration and renewal. To quote Maurice Kaehler's nod to Bucky Fuller, there's enough to go around. Can our species learn to collaborate with that abundance?
Kazi Pitelka - violist and urban farmer
John Steinmetz - bassoonist, composer, writer
The TEDx LAMM event was engaging, community building, and just plain fun! I loved the sincerity of the presenters - they were all inspiring - and I left with a better sense of connection to the food we eat.
Carol Rossi - Sr. Director of User Experience Research at Edmunds.com
Maurice did a phenomenal job organizing and attracting wonderful speakers to the TEDxLAMiracleMile Conference. The production could not have ran more smoothly, as speakers we felt supported and put at ease by the confidence that Maurice was able to lend us. This is not a small task and Maurice like all pro(s) made it look easy and and effortless, responding to any demands with a smile and a can do attitude.
Valerie Delahaye - President at make inc
Dedication
Renee Wilson began TEDxLAMiracleMile in the fall of 2009. To say Renee was a force of nature was an understatement. When she got involved with an idea, event, client or friend, things began happening.
An example of this is the last TEDx event she produced. At the farmer’s market where I was working we were discussing an impasse she was facing. We both discovered that I had the missing piece of the puzzle that would complete the event. Being no fool, she asked me if we could work together. Being no fool, I said yes. On the way to producing a successful event, we fell in love.
Buckminster Fuller’s ideas are behind TEDxLAMM's events. Bucky used the term “trim tab” as a powerful metaphor as to what “one person can do." In the nautical world, a trim tab is a miniature rudder attached to the larger rudder of a ship.
Bucky said “Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. This takes almost no effort at all. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.”
Renee took on her role as “trim tab” with gusto and panache. She was an enthusiastic cheerleader for everything beautiful, true, fun, and delicious. And TEDxLAMiracleMile is another result of her “sticking her foot into the water.”
Renee left her body in May, 2010.
TEDxLAMM continues on in her wake : )
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