A result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all d of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air peru pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just want to major victory in
Media feet, nonprivate industry, americans Cable Television company is a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. Please welcome executive director of chicago ideas, Megan Mcdonald. [applause] good evening, happy wednesday. How is everyone feeling . Rate. Happy friday. Just making sure you are paying attention. Welcome, my name is Megan Mcdonald im the new director of chicago ideas. Born and raised in this amazing city that now, raising my own family, just on the street, i feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anybody else feel that way . [applause] it makes me even powder to be part of this fantastic chicago ideas team, who works each and every day to challenge our city and the world beyond, to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about curiosity and pursuing conductivity. In the spirit, who doesnt love a good friday night icebreaker . I like to ask you to take a moment to turn to a person you dont know and
Are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on World Affairs from all different kinds of directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you focus on a class and oregon. Why . My mom still on a family farm in the fac place of a humanitarn crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids ar that we on my old number six schoolbus are now drawn from this and weve tried to process that. [inaudible] in from hepatitis he survived because he was in the Oregon State Penitentiary and we wondered for a while is this something and then we realized it is a National Problem we have depths of despair. It was kind of a microcosm to which to see that across america. You solve this through the lens of returning home and it could have been titled School Bus Number six. So many are from the friends you had growing up there and expanding from there. And you grew up in manhattan upper middle east and that is a whole different world early in the relationship you saw it on the fol
A result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air proo pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just won a major victory in cou
Small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career, youre traveling the world and living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of different reactions and some of the worst tragedies in the planet but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon, why . We were running around and covering mandatory crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my old Number Six School bus were on drugs and alcohol and suicide and carol and i tried to process that in the kids who got on the bus right after me where the kids and their sisters and smart talented kids, farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zealand died in a house fire when he was drunk and farland blew himself up cooking meth and regina died from hepatitis from drug use. For a while we wondered is this something about yamhill, we reali