Year
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On May 11th last year, I stood alone at the North geographic Pole.
And the expedition started in February last
year.
NASA described the ice conditions last
year
as the worst since records began.
I was skiing into headwinds for nine out of the 10 weeks I was alone last year, and I was drifting backwards most of the time.
Another exciting thing we did last
year
was with communications technology.
Last year, blogging live from an expedition that's been described as 10 times as dangerous as Everest.
I was very busy in the beginning of that year, and I didn't know when I was going to find time to design and print a single valentine.
Last year, I took a more conceptual approach to the valentine.
This year, I got, what I really have to say is a rather brilliant idea, to laser cut my valentines out of used Christmas cards.
Well, so, for this last year, with the help of Cisco who sponsored me, for some balmy reason, to do this, I've been looking somewhere else.
Most of the population growth of the next 50 years will be in cities. We'll grow by six cities of 12 million people a
year
for the next 30 years.
The world has over a trillion hours a
year
of free time to commit to shared projects.
There are a trillion hours a
year
of participatory value up for grabs.
We've got this trillion hours a
year.
For instance, here in Atlanta, about half of households make between $20,000 and $50,000 a year, and they are spending 29 percent of their income on housing and 32 percent on transportation.
Three million people die every
year
in cities due to bad air, and almost all particulate pollution on this planet is produced by transportation devices, particularly sitting in cities.
Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a
year.
It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a
year
to the disease.
The throughput rate right now is 1.5 million nets, three million by the end of the
year.
We hope to have seven million at the end of next
year.
But each bag we'd sell would provide a
year'
s worth of school meals for one kid.
It's so simple, and we thought, OK, it costs between 20 and 50 bucks to provide school feeding for a
year.
I think 2010 can be a really interesting
year
because it is the end of the 30-year cycle, and it's the birthday of the global food system.
Well, I really care about 1980 because it's also the 30th anniversary of me this
year.
I multiplied them by the number of twigs per branch and the number of branches per tree and then divided that by the number of minutes per
year.
And so I was able to calculate how far a single tree moved in a single
year.
In the
year
2007, I started a partnership with the Washington State Department of Corrections.
But if trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
I'm going to talk now about how world population has changed from that
year
and into the future, but I will not use digital technology, as I've done during my first five TEDTalks.
The
year
is 1960.
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