A one-night environmental film festival “with a difference”!

Practical and interactive - a one-night film festival “with a difference”! Eight mini-documentaries, selected for their national and global perspectives, demonstrate dilemmas of sustaining, reclaiming and defending food and water resources. After the screening, join in a session with a panel of environmental practitioners in law, education, business, activism and more. Together we will engage as problem-solvers to generate real-world solutions in technologies, strategies, and innovative policies. FREE and open to the public. Reception and light refreshments following the discussion. 

 Panel:

Will Allen, pioneering urban ag expert and founder of Growing Power Inc. farm and community food center (http://growingpower.org/)

Lisa Goldman, Senior Attorney and Counsel, the Environmental Law Institute (http://www.eli.org)

Jonathan A. Lanciani, CEO of Organica Water Inc. (http://www.o-sw.com/)

Brenda Platt, co-director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (http://www.ilsr.org/index.html)

Films:

Seeds of Hope (South Africa)

Water Warriors (U.S.)

Recycle (U.S.)

We are the Zaballeen (Egypt)

Organica Water Reclamation (France)

The Next Wave (Pacific Islands)

Taste the Waste (Europe, U.S., Africa)

....and a few surprises

 Panel moderated by Gerri Williams, Research Associate, UDC College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Science (CAUSES)

The film program is part of the 2nd Annual International Urban Sustainability Summit.The Summit is an initiative of CAUSES to encourage networking and to inform, engage and empower attendees to act on issues in the urban environment.