Your new plans for October 22: Join the screening and panel of experts I’m hosting on The Story of Plastic.
Join This Sustainable Life for a free online screening (at your convenience starting October 19) and panel discussion of The Story of Plastic Thursday, October 22, at 7pm ET.
(Note: the Leadership and the Environment team is about to rebrand as This Sustainable Life. This event debuts the new logo and name!)
Join This Sustainable Life for a free online screening (at your convenience starting October 19) and panel discussion of The Story of Plastic Thursday, October 22, at 7pm ET.
Too much plastic in your life? Wonder how much it affects your health and environment? Looking to avoid it?
You’re not alone. People globally are educating, acting, and legislating.
THE STORY OF PLASTIC takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash, rivers and seas clogged with waste, and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing.
Join us Thursday, October 22 at 7pm ET, for our panel discussion on the various aspects of plastics and what we can do. Register here. On October 19, you’ll receive a link to watch The Story of Plastic at your convenience and a link to our zoom panel. The discussion will be recorded. Please send questions prior to the event.
Panelists are all previous guests:
- Eric Adams, 19th Borough President of Brooklyn, elected 2013, he previously served as New York State Senator for the 20th District.
- J. B. MacKinnon, author, The Once and Future World— a bestseller and winner, US Green Prize for Sustainable Literature—and The 100-Mile Diet—a bestseller that catalyzed the local foods movement.
- Bethany McLean, wrote Saudi America, on the business of fracking, one of the main sources of the plastic boom. She also broke the Enron story in Fortune, later writing The Smartest Guys in the Room, an Oscar-nominated movie.
- Dawn Riley, Americas Cup winner who trains Olympians and professional leaders of the sport, portrayed in the inspiring film Maiden about the first all-woman crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race, outspoken on ocean plastics, having seen it grow over her decades sailing.
- Vincent Stanley, at Patagonia since its start in 1973, currently Director of Philosophy, formerly holding executive roles as head of sales or marketing. Cowrote with founder Yvon Chouinard The Responsible Company. Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Moderated by Joshua Spodek PhD MBA, three-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School.
Thank you for joining!
On a personal note, I thought I knew a lot about plastic before seeing the movie. It changed a lot. It’s produced by the people behind the groundbreaking Story of Stuff videos I’ve long promoted, including previous podcast guest Michael O’Heaney.
You will be glad you watched this movie and attended the panel.
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