DP Bagels, Monterey, California.

Google Bagels, Monterey, California.

Monterey is one of those.

We'd love to tag in Monterey.

They haven't learned that in Monterey.

Google ... commissary department on McClellan Avenue, Monterey.

Way more interesting than Monterey even today.

This is at 3,000 feet in Monterey Canyon.

So, 100 billion galaxies, 13.7 billion light years away a step in size from that to Monterey, actually, is about the same as from Monterey to these things.

So lets say I'm in Monterey, and I want what?

That's one of our bluefin at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

If I was born in Monterey, probably would be in Brazil.

There we are in Monterey hopefully I can get it right.

We're taking calls live on stage here at TED in Monterey.

Other things could have happened. The Japanese could have discovered Monterey.

I have the privilege of being a partner with the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.

It was discovered by Christina Huffard and filmed by Sea Studios, right here from Monterey.

Monterey is one of the few places in the world where Molas come in large numbers.

Behind the scenes is a working lab at Stanford University partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

And Scott Benson's team that showed that leatherbacks go from Indonesia all the way to Monterey.

This is the Monterey Pine, which has little air sacks to make the pollen carry even further.

We reiterate the importance of achieving the commitments contained in the Monterey Consensus with regard to ODA.

In our view, the global partnership for development should not be confined to some commitments of the Monterey Consensus.

You could go out into the community in Monterey, and you'd have difficulty finding a boy that has this ability.

Pulling water out of Monterey fog and out of the sweaty air in Atlanta, before it gets into a building, are key technologies.

That change in thinking has led to a dramatic shift, not only in the fortunes of Monterey Bay, but other places around the world.

Now right next door in Monterey and up at the Farallones are a white shark team led by Scott Anderson there and Sal Jorgensen.

My hero is actually not Darwin it's a guy named William Bateson, father of Greg Bateson, who was here for a long time in Monterey.

I started out showing how much we had distressed the Monterey Bay ecosystem with pollution and the canning industry and all of the attendant problems.

So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

That same sound traveled to the west, and could be heard in Bermuda, and traveled to the east, and could be heard in Monterey the same sound.

This last fall, I went to the Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and talked to the researchers here in Monterey at the Naval Postgraduate Laboratory.

Kyrgyzstan remains committed to the Monterey Consensus, whereby the developed countries will increase their development assistance and poor countries will adapt themselves to using that assistance more effectively.

And then finally, I want to show you some responses that we recorded with the world's first deep sea webcam, which we had installed in Monterey Canyon last year.

And that pyramid in Monterey, right now, because of the efforts of a lot of different people, is functioning better than it's ever functioned for the last 150 years.

This enormous machine the large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has a circumference of 17 miles and, when it's operating, draws five times as much power as the city of Monterey.

Everybody asking, just who is responsible for this citywide, nationwide mockingbird cacophony, and somebody finally is going to tip the City Council of Monterey, California off to me, and they'll offer me a key to the city.

And we'd love to tag here this is an aerial shot of Monterey but unfortunately, the Molas here end up looking like this because another one of our locals really likes Molas but in the wrong way.

And then there's Scott Shaffer and our shearwaters wearing tuna tags, light based tags, that now are going to take you from New Zealand to Monterey and back, journeys of 35,000 nautical miles we had never seen before.

So first, one of the problems with Monterey is that if there is global warming and Greenland melts as you say, the ocean level is going to rise 20 feet and flood the hell out of the convention center.

Other people, like David Packard and Julie Packard, who were instrumental in producing the Monterey Bay aquarium to lock into people's notion that the ocean and the health of the ocean ecosystem were just as important to the economy of this area as eating the ecosystem would be.

Now I don't know how you'd feed a child like that but we don't know how fast the Molas grow in the wild, but captive growth studies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium one of the first places to have them in captivity they had one that gained 800 lbs in 14 months.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute gave me time with their ROV so that I could test it and we could figure out, you know, for example, which colors of red light we had to use so that we could see the animals, but they couldn't see us get the electronic jellyfish working.

Additionally, many events, Commissions, and Conferences of the United Nations, including the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, the Monterey Consensus, the Millennium Development Declaration and Goals, have confirmed that gender equality and the dignity of women and girls are issues central to the global agenda of human rights, security, and human development.