Join the City of Santa Monica and Sustainable Works for a free event featuring three inspiring and hopeful short films followed by a panel discussion.

The films:

• Wild Hope: The Great Ocean Cleanup: Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean.

• From Soil to Soul: Food Justice in L.A: Imagine a world where every community has the power to grow its own food, where children know the story of the food they eat and where their food comes from, and where our relationship with the land is rooted in justice, respect, and sustainability. This is the vision behind From Soil to Soul.

• Wild Hope: Protecting Paradise: On Panama’s remote Pearl Islands, marine biologist Callie Veelenturf is using her research on endangered sea turtles to help the country enshrine the rights of nature into law - and help the communities living there protect their own environment and livelihood.

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