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The one in the back puts her arms around her and consoles her.
And we took the money that we made from our farmer's market, and started buying gifts for the homeless and for needy around the world.
In my childhood, I played around in my father's university lab.
So we formed Coursera, whose goal is to take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free.
Around each one of our courses, a community of students had formed, a global community of people around a shared intellectual endeavor.
And the really amazing thing is, because there were so many students, it means that even if a student posed a question at 3 o'clock in the morning, somewhere around the world, there would be somebody who was awake and working on the same problem.
So to summarize, if we could offer a top quality education to everyone around the world for free, what would that do?
First it would establish education as a fundamental human right, where anyone around the world with the ability and the motivation could get the skills that they need to make a better life for themselves, their families and their communities.
They were collecting them up, and handing them in to various places around the different towns for safekeeping.
Over five hundred volunteers around the globe helped us get 90 families hundreds of photographs back, fully restored and retouched.
One in particular, a photo of women of all ages, from grandmother to little girl, gathered around a baby, struck a chord, because a similar photo from my family, my grandmother and mother, myself, and newborn daughter, hangs on our wall.
He saw his job as creating conflict around her theories.
But when he looked around his organization, nobody else seemed to be at all worried.
And yes, there was a lot of conflict and debate and argument, but that allowed everyone around the table to be creative, to solve the problem, and to change the device.
But when we dare to break that silence, or when we dare to see, and we create conflict, we enable ourselves and the people around us to do our very best thinking.
Instead, these laws and laws around the world use the rather awkward analogy of property.
We tried to answer this simple question: Can you find a unifying language that cuts across age and income and culture that will help people themselves find a new way of living, see spaces around them differently, think about the resources they use differently, interact differently?
So, three and a half years ago, a few of us sat around a kitchen table and we just invented the whole thing.
And we said to that public meeting in Todmorden, look, let's imagine that our town is focused around three plates: a community plate, the way we live our everyday lives; a learning plate, what we teach our kids in school and what new skills we share amongst ourselves; and business, what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support.
Now, let's imagine those plates agitated with community actions around food.
They said, "Absolutely fine, provided you get planning permission and you do it in Latin and you do it in triplicate," so we did — (Laughter) — and now there are fruit trees and bushes and herbs and vegetables around that doctor's surgery.
And this is a route of exhibition gardens, and edible towpaths, and bee-friendly sites, and the story of pollinators, and it's a route that we designed that takes people through the whole of our town, past our cafes and our small shops, through our market, not just to and fro from the supermarket, and we're hoping that, in changing people's footfall around our town, we're also changing their behavior.
People congregated around it.
If we can create a campaign around one product and show them there is local loyalty to that product, maybe they'll change their mind and see we're serious.
People after the earthquake in New Zealand visited us in order to incorporate some of this public spiritedness around local growing into the heart of Christchurch.
One, please stop putting prickly plants around public buildings.
If we want to inspire the farmers of tomorrow, then please let us say to every school, create a sense of purpose around the importance to the environment, local food and soils.
And think about the concept of transformation in the back of your mind because things can be turned around rather quickly.
It's all around us.
They came around a corner faced with a row of machine guns.
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