Soil Health, Regenerative Agriculture and Gen Z's Passion for Climate Advocacy
Heather White, who consumer advocate Erin Brockovich calls the "Brené Brown of the environmental movement," is the author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet (Harper Collins 2022). Heather's two decades of experience in climate policy and environmental advocacy include serving as a presidential campaign staffer to Al Gore, the environmental counsel to U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, and the executive director of three national environmental nonprofits. She's a frequent spokesperson on climate and environmental issues and has been featured on Good Morning America, CBS, and NBC, and quoted in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Guardian. Her two Gen Z daughters inspired her to research and write about the mental health impacts of the climate crisis. The nonprofit organization she founded, onegreenthing.org, tackles eco-anxiety through joyful daily action, leading to culture change for climate solutions. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.
I inherited my passion for taking care of the planet from my dad, Ted Turner, the original Captain Planet. When my siblings and I were children, my father instilled environmental stewardship into us every chance he got.
Today, I work with organizations that address urgent challenges affecting our life support system: our air, water, land, food, biodiversity and climate.
As chair of the Captain Planet Foundation, I help guide the organization in empowering and engaging youth to become the next generation of environmental stewards through hands-on experiential learning projects. I also serve on the board of the Children & Nature Network, which has the mission of helping all children to grow up realizing the many benefits that exposure to nature provides.
I am co-founder and serve as chair of Mothers and Others for Clean Air, which works to improve air quality for at-risk populations, especially children in the Southeast. I serve on the board of Project Drawdown, which focuses on measuring the top scalable solutions to address global warming. And as a Patron of Nature for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature, I work to address the extinction crisis.
With my husband, Rutherford, I co-founded the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, which strives to protect Georgia’s drinking water. Along with that, I serve on the board for the Waterkeeper Alliance, which is a consortium of over 300 local Waterkeeper groups worldwide.
To leverage and protect important environmental policies that protect the air, water, land and especially climate, I serve as vice chair of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.
Additional organizations I work with include the Turner Foundation, United Nations Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Turner Endangered Species Fund. I am a member of Atlanta Rotary and serve on the Carter Center Board of Councilors and on the advisory board for the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. I live with my husband, Rutherford, in Atlanta. We have three children and live in the first LEED-certified gold residence in the United States. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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