American Solar Energy Society » Documentary http://www.ases.org Leading the Renewable Energy Revolution Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:13:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Great Documentary: Women Leading the Sustainability Movement http://www.ases.org/great-documentary-women-leading-the-sustainability-movement/ http://www.ases.org/great-documentary-women-leading-the-sustainability-movement/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:47:09 +0000 Susan Greene http://ases.org/?p=1678 Recently I attended a screening at the 6th Annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival of the new documentary film , ARISE, narrated by Darryl Hannah.  The film captures the stories of women around the globe, who are leading the way to a sustainable future to rebuild their families, their neighborhoods and their communities. The film highlights a new generation of women who have acknowledged that the natural environment has become disconnected from our lives, our hearts and our beings. The featured women, from Africa, Palestine, Israel, India, Ecuador, and all over the United  States, including the South Bronx, San Francisco and Denver, speak with passion and conviction about their communities, their families and their connection with the natural world that surrounds them.

The theater was packed and the audience was captivated by the powerful emotions and the remarkable results across all demographics and all types of environments – from very rural to very urban. As a Bedouin Palestinian woman noted, with conviction, “When you can vision a different reality, you can live a different reality”.

The film won the Spirit of Activism Award at the Environmental Film Festival. Be sure and see this doc if you have the opportunity!

Be sure and check out the World Renewable Energy Forum (www.WREF2012.org) in the Built Environment track for lots of panels on this and related topics!

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Dr. Richard Komp (center), Morgan Robinson, and Claire Weingarten accept the Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award.

Wow! How exciting is this? Dr. Richard Komp, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Life Member, Director of the Maine Solar Energy Association and intrepid world-traveler was co-producer of a documentary movie, Burning in the Sun, that recently won the Cinema for Peace 2012 International Green Film Award. Richard, along with his co-producer Claire Weingarten and the film’s director, Morgan Robinson, picked up their award in Berlin on February 12th at the Cinema for Peace Award Gala.

Dr. Komp acted as a mentor to Daniel Dembele, a young entrepreneur from Mali, West Africa who wants to help his country and its citizens by installing solar electric panels on 99% of all rural houses in Mali to bring electricity to those communities for the very first time. Richard travels the world, working in developing countries, teaching average citizens to build and install photovoltaic (PV) panels that generate electricity from the sun. His work brings power to people who’ve never experienced it before. Watch the trailer below.

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