04 Feb Austin Green Living Expo hosts Environmental Film Festival

Austin Green Living Expo hosts Environmental Film Festival

I’m so excited about the many aspects of this year’s Austin Green Living Expo that will truly help consumers in making more eco-conscious purchase decisions.  This year, we are adding an Environmental Film Festival to help educate the public about several VERY important issues impacting us all.

So far, four films will be screened at this year’s Expo:

1) Tapped which examines the role of the bottled water industry and its’ effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.  Following the film we will have a panel of local water experts to discuss local water source issues.

2) FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.  Edible Austin will lead a panel discussion of local sustainable food experts following the film.

3) We also will be screening a short film by local film maker Michael O Scott: Rainforest Partnership – Linking People to People.  Executive Director Niyanta Spelman will follow the film with a presentation discussing their work in the rainforests assisting the local forest communities in working in more sustainable ways helping to preserve the rainforests, and creating a connection and awareness of these rainforest communities and how deforestation is affecting our local climate.

4) We will also be screening World, Water and Health by local Film makers Brandy Rainey Amstel who will also be present to answer audience questions.  This documentary talks about water from the global, to the human, to the microscopic perspectives.  It sheds light on the harmful impacts of bottled water on the environment, global communities, and your health.

In addition to these enlightening films, The Green Living Expo will host a variety of educational seminars, cooking demos and interactive kids activities.  More on these in future blogs.

Contact Curah Beard at Curah@ShowTechnology.com or 512-496-3962 to inquire about exhibiting or speaking at the Expo.

Consumers: If there is a green business or product that you would like to see represented at the event, please email me too.