Cesar Harada
Environmental Inventor | Designing Sustainable Innovations
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Cesar Harada is an environmental inventor and entrepreneur who develops open-source technologies for ocean cleanup and disaster relief. As the founder of Protei, he has pioneered the creation of self-sailing, wind-powered robots that monitor marine pollution.
Harada's TED Talk exploring modular design for ships and buoys has over 1 million views. His keynotes inspire audiences to rethink how technology can address pressing environmental challenges, showcasing tangible innovations that benefit both people and the planet.
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How I teach kids to love science
At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He's moved his classroom into an industrial mega-space where imaginative kids work with wood, metal, chemistry, biology, optics and, occasionally, power tools to create solutions to the threats facing the world's oceans. There, he instills a universal lesson that his own parents taught him at a young age: "You can make a mess, but you have to clean up after yourself."
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