2012 TED Prize Winner

http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/

For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.

The 2012 TED Prize is awarded to….the City 2.0.

The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably.

The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity’s collective wisdom....  http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/

the video... http://thecity2.org/splash.php



and PS: Arizona's very own Kyrsten Sinema gave a TED talk this year!

Kyrsten Sinema, politician

“Politics are but don’t have to be rancorous,” says Kyrsten, a former Arizona state senator (about to run for Congress), human rights activist and LGBT political leader. “If we focus on relationships, find our shared values, we can win unlikely wins in unlikely places.” Kyrsten tells the story of how she defeated Senator Russell Pearce’s draconian anti-immigration bills by finding shared values with politicians and companies who would normally not be on her side. “We have to be willing to work with people different from ourselves in order to make politics work,” she says. “We must unite and conquer.”

http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/ted-fellows-talks-a-full-recap-of-mondays-sessions/