San Francisco In one of the final, powerful sets of Tides Momentum presentations a woman named Mary Anne Hitt, the executive director of Appalachian Voices, spoke about “mountain top removal” or what coal mountain removal and the destruction of 450 mountains in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There was a standing ovation from the crowd. …
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Momentum Overload
San Francisco In the second day of the Tides Momentum Conference I found myself surfing between the calm waves of constantly moving new information and the breaking crest of overload in trying to process it all. Longer notes began to focus more on simple quotes that helped imprint the various speakers and their 18 …
Tides Momentum
San Francisco This is now the 3rd Tides Momentum conference and Drummond Pike, the Tides CEO, clearly had taken the reins and was trying to do something bold and different with it. I could tell that as soon as I walked into the W hotel — we were a long way from the Berkeley …