THINKING BIG

March 10 promises to be a day of big ideas. Nineteen visionary speakers—who have led, invented, created, and transformed millions of lives—will share insights and innovations, while proposing solutions to many of the world’s current issues and concerns at this year’s Imagine Solutions Conference. One of these speakers is American conservationist Kristine Tompkins. For the past three decades, the former CEO of Patagonia has dedicated herself to protecting biodiversity by creating national parks and fostering regenerative economies—primarily in South America—through Tompkins Conservation, an organization she co-founded with her late husband. Tompkins believes landscapes decimated by human footprint can recover. She knows this is possible because, as she narrates in a TED2024 talk, she has lived it. Through Tompkins’ work (and her late husband’s), nearly 15 million acres of parklands in…