CONNECTIVITY PROJECT Screening Resources

The Discussion Guide will contain the following for your screening use:
• about the film & filmmakers • ready to watch! screening guide
• ready to talk! discussion guide • ready to act! handout

Press Stills

Websites

SixDegrees.org  SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon. Launched on January 18, 2007, the organization builds on the popularity of the “small world phenomenon” by enabling people to become celebrities for their own causes by donating to or raising money for local and grassroots charities in the United States.

Kalliopeia Foundation The Kalliopeia Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality, and to supporting initiatives and organizations that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth.

Global Oneness Project  Founded in 2006 as an initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation, the Global Oneness Project aims to plant seeds of empathy, resilience, and a sacred relationship to our planet. Committed to the exploration of cultural, environmental, and social issues, the Project offers a library of multimedia stories comprised of award-winning films, photo essays, and essays. Companion curriculum and discussion guides are also available.

Pachamama Alliance  The Pachamama Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that was born out of a relationship between a group of people from the modern world and the leaders of remote indigenous groups in the Amazon region of Ecuador. The Alliance advocates for indigenous rights and the rights of nature.

Project Drawdown  Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach“Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.

Daily Acts  Daily Acts is a holistic education nonprofit that takes a heart-centered approach to inspiring transformative actions that create connected, equitable, and climate resilient communities.

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation  The Xerces Society is a non-profit environmental organization that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates considered to be essential to biological diversity and ecosystem health. The name is in honor of the extinct California butterfly, the Xerces blue.

The Biomimicry Institute  “Biomimicry” is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges in a regenerative way. The Biomimicry Institute empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet.

Center for Biological Diversity  The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.

Pollinator Partnership  Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)  THE EDF is a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group known for its work on issues including global warming, ecosystem restoration, oceans, and human health.

Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ)  CHEJ helps build healthy communities nationwide. Since its founding in 1981 by Lois Gibbs, CHEJ has grown into the nation’s leading resource for grassroots environmental activism, a ground-breaking, progressive organization with a vision for clean, green neighborhoods built from hard-won experience fighting for environmental justice.

IQAir  IQAir operates the world’s largest free real-time air quality information platform and engage an ever-growing number of global citizens, organizations, and governments.

Neighbors For Clean Air (NCA)  Neighbors for Clean Air educates, motivates and activates Oregonians to improve air quality in their region and state.

Communities For A Better Environment (CBE) —https://www.cbecal.org/Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.