CELEBRATE EARTH DAY IN CONVERSATION WITH PANELISTS

JENNY RUSTEMEYER- Producer, Subject of JUST EAT IT

TINA CONNELLY- Chef of Tina’s Gourmet Kitchen

ANNE BRADNER - CEO, Carver Center

WHERE: Virtual – Conversation and Q & A

Special video with MIKE GELLER – Owner of Mike’s Organics

DETAILS: Filmmakers and food lovers, Jen and Grant literally dive into the issue of food waste after learning that billions of dollars of food are tossed every year in North America. They pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive on only discarded food. Follow their shocking journey from farm to retail and back to their own fridge.

Thank you to our sponsor Rye Country Day School

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Description from Clean Bin Project website:

Is it possible to live completely waste free? In this multi-award winning, festival favourite, partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least garbage.

Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the problem waste. Even as Grant and Jen start to garner interest in their project, they struggle to find meaning in their minuscule influence on the large-scale environmental impacts of our “throw-away society”.

Described as An Inconvenient Truth meets Super Size Me, The Clean Bin Project features laugh out loud moments, stop motion animations, and unforgettable imagery. Captivating interviews with renowned artist, Chris Jordan and TED Lecturer Captain Charles Moore, make this film a fun and inspiring call to individual action that speaks to crowds of all ages.

Special Guest Speaker: Chef, writer, and media host extraordinaire, Erica Wides. Erica is the creator and host of Let’s Get Real; the cooking show about finding, preparing and eating FOOD. She's also a columnist for the Huffington Post and NuMi, and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, the Food Network’s Top 5 and Chopped, Home Shopping Network, PBS, Sirius Radio, NPR, and in 2013 was invited to speak at TedX Berkeley.

Thank you to our sponsor and host Rye Country Day School.

Did you use a straw today? It's estimated that each day in the U.S. over 500 million straws are used once and tossed -- enough to fill over 127 school buses daily. Plastic straws make the top 10 list of items found on beaches and the vast majority aren't recycled. Instead they end up in landfills, as litter, or in the ocean. This award winning documentary illuminates the negative impact of straws and other single-use plastics that inundate our waterways. Watch STRAWS to learn how it's in your hands to make that straw your Last Straw!

Honored Guest Speaker: Filmmaker Linda Booker

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Honored Guest: Matt D'Avella, Director

MINIMALISM - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS, is a feature length documentary from the popular simple-living duo, The Minimalists. The #1 Indie Documentary of 2016, this film examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life. MINIMALISM explores various recipes for how to live a more meaningful, deliberate life. Not a perfect life – not an easy life – but a simple one. Film Website: http://minimalismfilm.com

Refreshments will be served at 6:00 pm. Film will begin at 6:30 pm (run time: 80 minutes)

Co-sponsored by RCDS Parents Association Environmental and Wellness Committee and The Rye Sustainability Committee

Chairs: Kerry Linderoth, Gretchen Kaye-Crowley and Sara Goddard

Committee: Carrie Berg, Jessica Brown, Sue Drouin, Lori Fontanes, Liz Garrett, Cali Gibbs, Melissa Grieco, Jung Chai, Hanna Cohen, Suzanne Clary, James Elkin, Dorian Feckl, Michele Gershwin, Lucia Girande, Julie Killian, Cathy Lee, Lynn Lee, Linda MacKay, Colleen Margiloff, Jane Ellen Moss, Brit Foster Rothstein, Stacey Simensky, Kelly Smith-Powers, Annalise Stack, Rose Dickson Stewart, Danielle Tagger-Epstein, Maria Talpins, Caroline Vary, Amy Wolff

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