$15 general admission
Sustainability Series 2011 Keynote Speaker: Annie Leonard
Tuesday, March 8 at 7 pm, King Concert Hall
Talk Title: “The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with
Stuff is
Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and our Health”
Annie Leonard is most prominently known for her video ‘The
Story of Stuff,’ which went viral in December 2007 reaching over 12 million
on-line views. With the success of this
video, she launched the Story of Stuff project to
leverage and extend the film’s impact. To date the ‘Story of …’ collection has
grown to include 5 films, as well as the “Loop Scoops” PBS series- a collection
of short, funny videos aimed at getting kids thinking about the stuff in their
lives and what this stuff can do to the environment. In March 2010, in order to
provide more information than could ever be included in a film, Annie’s
ground-breaking book of the same name, The Story of Stuff, was published.
Prior to her meteoric rise to public prominence with the “Story of Stuff,” Annie spent nearly two decades investigating and organizing on environmental health and justice issues. Working with such public interest organizations as the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA), Health Care without Harm, Essential Information and Greenpeace International, she has traveled to 40 countries, visiting literally hundreds of factories where our stuff is made and dumps where our stuff is dumped. Witnessing firsthand the horrendous impacts of both over- and under- consumption around the world, Annie is fiercely dedicated to reclaiming and transforming our industrial and economic systems so they serve, rather than undermine, ecological sustainability and social equity.