Lynette Wallworth brings together technological advances with ancient understanding, new media with the electricity of human touch. Coral Rekindling Venus, a film inspired by the Transit of Venus, is a global call for us to work together across borders and nations to save our increasingly degraded oceans and coral reefs.
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Coral Rekindling Venus
Lynette Wallworth
TEDxSydney 2012 · 26 May 2012
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