June 2022: A Travelog
The global community of people working earnestly to protect our planet and all with whom we share it is what sustains me in my life’s work. I am grateful to my community and for the opportunities that I have to travel to be with them in person to collaboratively accelerate our work and the work of so many others.
Following our 2022 Sun Valley Forum I left the mountains to New York to learn, connect and act, first participating in the inaugural TED Countdown “Dilemma Series,” which gathered experts on carbon markets to address the challenges and opportunities. I then joined the New York Federal Reserve for a Financial Innovations Roundtable on “Advancing Clean Energy Equity through Collaboration between Green Banks and CDFIs,” a gathering of government officials and private investors sharing solutions and building collaborations. In Switzerland I joined my fellow Hillary Institute Laureates to address the inaugural Villars Institute symposium, advancing incredible youth leadership. Finally, I made my first visit to Israel to gather with my fellow Aleph Farms Sustainability Advisory Board members for our first time at the Aleph Farms headquarters and new pilot facility - and for my first taste of cultivated steak! As a vegan for nearly two decades, and vegetarian before that, I was quite moved by the potential of this innovation to scale rapidly to be a major contributor to our planetary challenges. I fit in a brief visit to Egypt to advance preparations for COP27 at Sharm el-Sheik this November. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to travel to these places, to collaborate with these people, and especially, for some time in nature to recharge hope and inspiration, swimming with the sea creatures and corals of the gloriously colorful reefs of the Red Sea. Here are a few images from my time on the road.
