About the Event
The Need to Grow
Directed by Rob Herring and Ryan Wirick
United States, 2019, 96 minutes
Can we feed the world without destroying the planet?
The film takes you inside the hearts and innovations of three very different leaders - an 8-year-old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization - a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource-efficient agriculture - and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology.
Narrated by Rosario Dawson (Marvel’s The Defenders, The Lego Batman Movie), The Need To GROW delivers an epic story of solutions and the struggles to implement them. It will make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills, and inspire you to participate in the restoration of the Earth.
6:30 PM conversation, networking
7:00 PM film
8:15 PM panel discussion about topics in the film
Free to the public, though donations are kindly appreciated.
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