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“As an example, if we retrofitted all government buildings built pre 1950, and we created tax environments to help cities and municipalities and states and the federal government to retrofit those buildings, we could create 3 million industrial jobs plus we could import much less oil from the middle east.  But more importantly we’d be having a much cleaner environment.”   Leo Gerard, USW President from The 11th Hour - documentary

 “The 11th Hour” is a new feature length environmental film in which I appear. Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, it documents the environmental crises we face.

With the help of over fifty of the world’s most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, “The 11th Hour” documents the grave problems facing the plant’s life systems: global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction and depletion of the oceans’ habitats.

However, the most powerful aspect of “The 11th Hour” is not a portrait of a planet in crisis, but its offering of hope and solutions. The film ends with a call for restorative action through reshaping human activity.

“The 11th Hour” opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 17. On the 24th it opens in more cities and in the following weeks across the country. I strongly encourage you to go see it.