The 11th Hour at UCLA!

Submitted by Alisa on February 12, 2008 - 10:29am

(Above: Andy Lipkis, Leila Conners Petersen, Alisa Ahmadian, Nadia Conners, Matt Petersen, and J. Nichols)

As part of UCLA’s Focus the Nation event on Thursday, Jan. 31 (www.focusthenation.org), a couple of students organized to bring Leondaro DiCaprio's “The 11th Hour” to campus to culiminate the day of environmental panels, seminars and discussions. The students represented the UCLA Chancellor’s Sustainability Sub-Committee as well as the large, environmental student group E3-Ecology, Economy, Equity.

The film was screened in a large ballroom, and brought about 500 students to see the film. The highlight of the night was the panel discussion following the film, with co-directors Leila Conners-Petersen and Nadia Conners, as well as Matt Petersen (president of Global Green USA), Wallce J Nichols (head research scientist for the Ocean Conservancy) and Andy Lipkis (founder and president of Tree People.) It was a great experience for the students to ask experts featured in the film their personal questions involving how to get jobs in the environmental field, how the environment fits into politics, and how to use purchasing power responsibly.

Overall, it was a great event...hopefully the solutions mentioned in the film can translate into more students taking action on campus and beyond!

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