Small Steps for a Big Change | Doug Snyder | TEDxHanoi

Tackling big problems, like environmental crises we face today, can be discouraging. Doug talks about how starting small can eventually achieve huge impacts. He touches on his personal experience helping to build a non-profit organization, Keep Hanoi Clean, that is tackling air, land, and water pollution in Hanoi, Vietnam. Douglas Snyder is a lifelong environmentalist. Like all children he was fascinated with nature, and he followed this passion to get his environmental science bachelor degree at university and eventually work in sustainable development and green building. He currently is deputy director of sustainable design at ARDOR Green, a Vietnamese green building consulting firm. Doug also enjoys teaching and has lectured in business management at the National University of Vietnam since 2012. In the non-profit sphere, he serves as director of Keep Hanoi Clean, an entrepreneurial volunteer effort that aims to improve Hanoi’s land, air, and water quality through grassroots work and partnering with like-minded organizations and the government. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@MaiNguyen-sz5ks]

oh wow! For the first time ever, I can find my teacher on TH-cam. Great speech, Mr. Doug.

[@dougsnyder7913]

Thank you!

[@juhi4]

Good one,Doug.Glad things are working great for you in Hanoi.

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Loved your talk. Nature is indeed a great helper n teacher. Thank you bless you. All your dreams come true.

[@mblakenichols]

My favorite TED talk ;)

[@diepngocbui5151]

the second best is yours right lol?

[@pat8350]

highly doubt Doug comes back to this video anymore but if you do, you're a beast Doug! Keep it up

[@nganhang2472]

What you guys doing is wonderful !!!

[@tadiwa9297]

Great Ted Talk!

[@hannahnguyen8959]

Amazing. I hope someone can make a team called "Keep Haiphong Clean" that would be wonderful

[@dougsnyder7913]

Absolutely! We hope to help locals in every city in VN to get started cleaning up

[@sarahrappleye6457]

Yay Doug!!!

[@nhungquack]

[@amjadshahulhameed3811]

This dude doesn't look like who does 100 pushups everyday

[@donkelleher9726]

I use to do 2,000 in one day . Start at 7 in the morning and use to do sets of 15 or 20 throughout the day ... really

[@shamsshanto2853]

I am 24 years old but i look older than him :(