Year
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I don't need to know that at the end of the
year
when it's too late.
And you tell me last
year
48 percent of those kids were on grade level.
And I say, "Okay, what's the plan, what did we do from last
year
to this year?"
This year, somewhere between 44 and 52 percent of those kids will be on grade level.
What did we spend in Afghanistan this
year?
Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John, 100 percent of our kids graduated high school last
year
in my school.
This
year'
s seniors will have 100 percent graduating high school.
We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students?
I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a
year
to see who would graduate.
And so every year, I share my background with my kids, because they need to know that everyone has a story, everyone has a struggle, and everyone needs help along the way.
So in our third year, how did we do it?
And there are hundreds of initiatives every
year
to try and improve education.
Now that's a big number, but to put it in perspective, it's less than two percent of what we spend every
year
on teacher salaries.
We reached a tipping point this
year
where living, acting, designing, investing and manufacturing green came to be understood by a critical mass of citizens, entrepreneurs and officials as the most patriotic, capitalistic, geo-political and competitive thing they could do.
In the
year
2000, a rather interesting thing happened.
The library of the Free University, which opened last year, is an example of that.
And in a way, one aspect of this conversation was triggered on New
Year'
s Eve, when I was talking about the Olympic agenda in China in terms of its green ambitions and aspirations.
He was a student at Princeton in philosophy and math, actually won the prize for the best undergraduate philosophy thesis last
year
when he graduated.
That's another cause that I've been concerned about all my life, the immense amount of suffering that humans inflict on literally tens of billions of animals every
year.
There's about 100 people each
year
in the U.S. and more in other countries who do that.
So about a
year
and a half ago, we started working on a project called WikiHouse, and WikiHouse is an open-source construction system.
So what I did last
year
was we hired a car, looked up on Google, found a route into northern India from New Delhi which, you know, which did not cross any big cities or any big metropolitan centers.
We worked on it for a
year
and a half.
This is coal, the most common source of electricity on the planet, and there's enough energy in this coal to light this bulb for more than a
year.
If you wanted to light this bulb for a year, you'd need this much coal.
This
year
alone, in partnership with more than 80 utilities in six countries, we're going to generate another two terawatt hours of electricity savings.
Now, the energy geeks in the room know two terawatt hours, but for the rest of us, two terawatt hours is more than enough energy to power every home in St. Louis and Salt Lake City combined for more than a
year.
Two terawatt hours, it's roughly half what the U.S. solar industry produced last
year.
In terms of coal, we'd need to burn 34 of these wheelbarrows every minute around the clock every day for an entire
year
to get two terawatt hours of electricity.
That's 40 billion dollars a
year
wasted on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change.
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