#wendy schmidt

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Owner: Mrs Wendy Schmidt, Businesswoman and philanthropist, Mrs Wendy Schmidt owned an interior design firm for 16 years and is known for her charitable work for conservation. 

A trustee of the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) and founder of the 11th Hour Project to raise awareness of global warming and climate change, she has used regattas as a way to draw attention to oceanic issues.

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Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

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SeaKeeper of the Year: Wendy Schmidt

The International SeaKeepers Society to Honor Wendy Schmidt: 2017 SeaKeeper of the Year. In late June, Wendy Schmidt will be honored at SeaKeepers Bermuda for her outstanding leadership, support of the environment, and ocean conservation through private philanthropy. Wendy Schmidt is President of the Schmidt Family Foundation which works to advance the wiser use of energy and natural resources to support efforts worldwide to build sustainable systems for water, food, and human resources.

More info at http://www.seakeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Wendy-Schmidt-April-14.pdf

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Dig up those skeletons and watch the bones scatter. Lift up heavy carpets and see the heavenly light.

Dig up those skeletons and watch the bones scatter.

Lift up heavy carpets and see the heavenly light.

Families who don’t deal, feel the tension of unresolved issues, even down through the next generation. Young people will instinctively know not to speak to Aunt Jane or Uncle Bob, but they won’t know why. They’ll simply follow the unwritten rules set down by the ones that came before.

Relationships that might make all the difference are not even allowed to flourish. Why? Because Aunt Jane couldn’t come to Cousin Jennie’s party, or Bob and his brother were estranged after some childhood squabble.

If families won’t work things out, then why should nations?

One must be willing to jump out of the comfortable place that was padded in battle so long ago. One must look under the carpets where every sooty speck of conflict has been swept and stockpiled.

It’s not a simple task. Perhaps no one else will want to share this kind-hearted attempt at more sanitary conditions and much needed sanity. Perhaps it’s taken far too long and now the pile is so high that even an industrial strength vacuum cleaner couldn’t make a dent in the dirt.

What if, just for argument’s sake, one person started from ground zero?

Oh, but for that one brave soul who makes the difficult decision to step up and say, “I’m willing to break all boundaries. I’m willing to believe.”

~ Wendy Schmidt