An all-day “immersion” event for High School students

Registration for EYF Day Two encompasses the entire day’s programs; registration for individual films is not available. Please review the program for EYF Day Three, Wednesday, February 10 for middle schools and high schools wanting to select individual films.

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INDIAN POINT

9:15 – 11:10 am  

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Ivy Meeropol’s film about New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant addresses nuclear power in a powerful and accessible way, presenting widely varied points of view about one of the most contentious issues of our time. The power plant is only 35 miles from Times Square and resides on a beautiful stretch of the Hudson River with 50 million people living in its shadow. With unprecedented access to the plant and a wide range of detractors and supporters interviewed, the filmmakers create an eye-opening and provocative exploration of the regulatory process, environmental impact and uncertain future of nuclear power in the United States. (94 min plus speaker)

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SPECIAL GUEST: Mary-Beth Brangan, The Ecological Options Network
TOPIC: Nuclear power

THE TRUE COST

9:20 – 11:12  am  

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The underpinnings of the fashion industry are really very ugly. Clothing has become cheaper and cheaper as large corporations seek out the lowest wages in third world countries. But what is the price of consumerism that doesn’t really care how clothes are made as long as they are affordable and fashionable? Sweatshop buildings collapse, cotton seeds for sterile plants force farmers to bankrupt themselves, relentless fashion changes lure people to buy clothes they don’t need, cheaper materials promote obsolescence and mass migrations of young country girls who leave home to labor in city clothing factories. The film focuses with precision on the fashion industry’s complicity in all of these social ills. (92 min plus speaker)

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SPECIAL GUEST: Shamini Dhana
TOPIC: The environmental and human cost of our clothes

BIKES VS CARS

9:30 – 11:00  am  

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Fredrik Gertten’s new film kicks off our afternoon on alternative transportation, including a panel discussion. Focusing on problems of traffic grid-lock and pollution from fossil fuel, the documentary travels from bike activists in Sao Paulo and Los Angeles, fighting for safe bike lanes, to the City of Copenhagen, where forty percent commute by bike daily. Bikes vs Cars looks at both the struggle for bicyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the revolutionary changes that could take place if more cities moved away from car-centric models. (90 min)

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TOPIC: Urban Transportation

A CONVERSATION: PEDAL OR GAS PEDAL… CREATING BIKE FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES

11:15 am – 12:20 pm

Educator Mark Phillips leads a discussion with author Jeff Mapes (Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities) and Marin County Safe Routes to Schools bike and pedestrian safety teacher James Sievert. The discussion will be preceded by a short film about Copenhagen and Amsterdam’s success with bicycle commuting. (65 min)

Total Program: 65 min

DISCUSSION: CLIMATE REALITY

12:35  – 1:20 pm

Presented by students from Marin School of Environmental Leadership (MSEL)

This year, students from MSEL attended the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Florida (a state that has banned the term “climate change”) inspired by former vice president Al Gore. Their experience will be presented in a 20 minute talk with a Q&A following.

PANEL DISCUSSION: OUR OCEANS

1:30 – 2:30 PM

An exciting panel on the largest but most misunderstood area of planet earth. After a screening of the inspiring short film Racing with Copepods, the prestigious panelists (TBA) will discuss why we don’t pay as much attention as we should to the seas and what problems we need to address on parity with our land based environments. (film 20 min, panel discussion 45 min)

PANEL:

Meghan Hartnett, Program Director/Coordinator of Sailing Education Adventures / Call of the Sea
Heather Itzla, Founder, There is No Away
Kimball Livingston (aka Neptune), International Sailor, Author and Ocean Environmental Advocate
Barbara McVeigh, Journalist and Filmmaker, Racing with Copepods
Kyan Walker, 13 year old youth in Racing with Copepods

Official RACING WITH COPEPODS Website

TOPIC: Kids connecting with the oceans

PLANT PURE NATION

11:25 am – 1:25 pm 

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This new film from the same team as Forks Over Knives brings back nutritional scientist and respected author Dr. T. Colin Campbell, who has convinced Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner to propose a pilot program documenting the health benefits of a plant-based diet. This innocent act sets off a political storm that exposes powerful forces opposed to the diet. (95 min plus speaker)

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SPEAKER: Michael Klaper, M.D.
TOPIC: The benefits of a plant based diet

ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE

11:40 am – 12:35 pm

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Jon Bowermaster’s stunning new film is narrated by Tilda Swinton with music by Natalie Merchant. From its place anchoring the bottom of the globe, Antarctica might seem too frozen to have any impact on the rest of the planet. But the very fact that it is constantly changing – the sea around it freezing and thawing every year – makes it the planet’s beating heart, its rhythm intimately influencing the earth’s weather, ocean currents and climate. By kayak, foot and sailboat Bowermaster’s team reveals the beauty of this remote, icy continent. (65 min plus speaker)

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SPECIAL GUEST: Gary Smaby, Executive Producer of ANTARCTICA 3D
TOPIC: Climate Change

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST

12:45 – 2:25

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This beautifully felt film highlights how societies deal with changing environments and social ideas by examining these big topics through the lives of famed anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Susie Crate. Delightful commentary by Mead’s daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist in her own right, and Crate’s teenage daughter, Katie Yegorov-Crate, is interwoven with stories of their mothers’ research and discoveries. (81 min plus Q&A with film subject Dr. Susie Crate after the screening)

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SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Susan A. Crate, Film subject
TOPIC: Climate change | Adaptation

350MARIN

350Marin is made up of grassroots activists who are deeply concerned about climate breakdown. Regionally, we’re affiliated with 350BayArea, which is working to achieve a significant decrease in all heat-trapping gases both locally and statewide. Globally, we’re part of the 350 movement that’s continuing to grow in 188 countries around the world. We are committed to holding our leaders and communities accountable to the realities of science and the principles of social justice.

AMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY SF BAY AREA CHAPTER

The mission of the American Cetacean Society is to protect whales, dolphins, porpoises, and their habitats through public education, research grants, and conservation actions.

CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY

The mission of the Conservation Corps is to develop youth and conserve natural resources for a strong, sustainable community.

EDUCATIONAL TALL SHIP / CALL OF THE SEA

Educational Tall Ship is constructing a traditional wooden tall ship, MATTHEW TURNER, which will serve as an experiential learning platform for Bay Area youth. The vessel, when complete, will be operated by our partner, Call of the Sea, who has been successfully operating on-the-water programs since 1984. MATTHEW TURNER,  under the watch of Call of the Sea, will expand their reach from 5,000 to over 17,000 kids each year.

GLOBAL MARCH FOR ELEPHANTS

The mission of the Global March is to mitigate the poaching crisis through creative advocacy and activism.

MARIN BEEKEEPERS

We are people who share an avid interest in honey and native bees.  Most members are small scale beekeepers. We have a wide range of interests, covering bee biology, pollination, survivor stock bee breeding, health aspects of bee products, international beekeeping, and other bee-related topics.

MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS

The goal of MCBC is for 20% of all trips in Marin to be made by bicycling or walking by 2020. Sinc1998, Marin County Bicycle Coalition (MCBC) has been steadily improving our county’s roads, multi-use pathways, and off-road facilities for cyclists and pedestrians.
SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS programs are designed to decrease traffic and pollution and increase the health of children and the community, to promote walking and biking to school, using education and incentives to show how much fun it can be!  The program addresses parents’ safety concerns by educating children and the public, partnering with traffic law enforcement, and developing plans to create safer streets. Marin County pioneered the national Safe Routes to Schools program that has spread across the U.S.

MARIN SANITARY SERVICE | MARIN RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY

Local, family owned and operated business that has served the community since 1948. We believe in the power of recycling to conserve our natural resources.  We provide curbside recycling, solid waste, yard waste and food scraps hauling, safe household hazardous waste disposal and many other services that are helping to achieve Marin County’s goal of zero waste.

MARIN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP  @ TERRA LINDA HIGH SCHOOL

The Marin School of Environmental Leadership (MarinSEL) is a school within a school at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, CA. Born out of a partnership between Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) and local parents, MarinSEL seeks to build the next generation of environmental leaders.

NATURE IN THE CITY

Nature in the City is San Francisco’s first organization wholly dedicated to ecological conservation, restoration and stewardship of the city’s bioregions. Our membership reflects San Francisco’s reputation as a leading center for the safeguarding of urban species and the restoration of their habitats.

NUCLEAR FREE CALIFORNIA NETWORK | ECOLOGICAL OPTIONS NETWORK

More than 60 California  anti-nuclear groups committed to work towards a nuclear-free California . We envision an energy efficient world, powered by clean, renewable technologies, free from dirty, dangerous, costly nuclear power and its legacy of toxic waste.

PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION (A PROJECT OF EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE)

A global alliance of individuals, organizations, businesses and policymakers working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, the ocean and the environment.

SAILING EDUCATION ADVENTURES

Sailing Education Adventures (SEA) is a non-profit community organization dedicated to promoting sailing through affordable instruction and related on-the-water activities. The primary objectives and purposes of this organization shall be to foster conservation and care of the San Francisco Bay marine environment through active, on-the-water and related experiences.

TRANSITION EARTH (A PROJECT OF EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE)

Transition Earth promotes human rights and nature’s rights in a world of unsustainable growth and advocates for global systems change to enable the shift to a sustainable planet for all. Our vision is to foster a healthy, resilient world grounded in holistic, rights-based approaches to global problems, including empowering women, supporting voluntary family planning, addressing overconsumption and redefining economies.

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