Conserving and restoring our oceans require intergenerational leadership. This year San Francisco's International Ocean Film Festival (www.intloceanfilmfest.org) recognizes that need through honoring generations of environmental leadership at its 17thannual fall benefit fundraiser. Internationally acclaimed oceanographer and marine advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, 84, will received the Festival's annual Ocean Champion Award--past awardees include Kip Evans, director of Expeditions for Mission Blue, Academy-Award winning director LouiePsihoyos and Jeff Boehmn, Executive Director of the Marine Mammal Center. Swedish environmentalist and climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, will be honored with the International Ocean Film Festival's inaugural Next Generation Award, which recognizes extraordinary leadership from a young advocate raising environmental issues on a global stage. Thunberg will receive the award after having recently completed a Trans-Atlantic journey by sail to minimize her own carbon footprint while attending global forum on Climate Change. The Next Generation Award recognizes not only Thunberg's thought leadership on the urgency of addressing global climate change, which is causing a higher extinction rate in the seas than on land, but also her leading by example in her climate strike and individual actions to reduce carbon emissions.
The night for our oceans' future fall benefit evening will take place on Saturday, November 2 at The Bently Reserve (301 Battery Street, San Francisco and feature a vegan dinner, fine wine and a live auction, and the following schedule: 5:30pm - 7pm cocktail reception; 7pm-9pm dinner and program; 9pm 'til 10:30pm music by DJ Bryce Williams. Highlighted during the evening will be teasers of the Festival's upcoming films.
"Our oceans have been under siege for many generations" said Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. "However, there is room for optimism in the lives and legacies of this year's honorees, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Greta Thunberg. Across the generations, these two incredible women represent the courage, vision and resilience needed to save our oceans, and build a world that sustains them into the future."
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The night for our oceans' future fall benefit evening will take place on Saturday, November 2 at The Bently Reserve (301 Battery Street, San Francisco and feature a vegan dinner, fine wine and a live auction, and the following schedule: 5:30pm - 7pm cocktail reception; 7pm-9pm dinner and program; 9pm 'til 10:30pm music by DJ Bryce Williams. Highlighted during the evening will be teasers of the Festival's upcoming films.
"Our oceans have been under siege for many generations" said Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. "However, there is room for optimism in the lives and legacies of this year's honorees, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Greta Thunberg. Across the generations, these two incredible women represent the courage, vision and resilience needed to save our oceans, and build a world that sustains them into the future."
Conserving and restoring our oceans require intergenerational leadership. This year San Francisco's International Ocean Film Festival (www.intloceanfilmfest.org) recognizes that need through honoring generations of environmental leadership at its 17thannual fall benefit fundraiser. Internationally acclaimed oceanographer and marine advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, 84, will received the Festival's annual Ocean Champion Award--past awardees include Kip Evans, director of Expeditions for Mission Blue, Academy-Award winning director LouiePsihoyos and Jeff Boehmn, Executive Director of the Marine Mammal Center. Swedish environmentalist and climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, will be honored with the International Ocean Film Festival's inaugural Next Generation Award, which recognizes extraordinary leadership from a young advocate raising environmental issues on a global stage. Thunberg will receive the award after having recently completed a Trans-Atlantic journey by sail to minimize her own carbon footprint while attending global forum on Climate Change. The Next Generation Award recognizes not only Thunberg's thought leadership on the urgency of addressing global climate change, which is causing a higher extinction rate in the seas than on land, but also her leading by example in her climate strike and individual actions to reduce carbon emissions.
The night for our oceans' future fall benefit evening will take place on Saturday, November 2 at The Bently Reserve (301 Battery Street, San Francisco and feature a vegan dinner, fine wine and a live auction, and the following schedule: 5:30pm - 7pm cocktail reception; 7pm-9pm dinner and program; 9pm 'til 10:30pm music by DJ Bryce Williams. Highlighted during the evening will be teasers of the Festival's upcoming films.
"Our oceans have been under siege for many generations" said Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. "However, there is room for optimism in the lives and legacies of this year's honorees, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Greta Thunberg. Across the generations, these two incredible women represent the courage, vision and resilience needed to save our oceans, and build a world that sustains them into the future."
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The night for our oceans' future fall benefit evening will take place on Saturday, November 2 at The Bently Reserve (301 Battery Street, San Francisco and feature a vegan dinner, fine wine and a live auction, and the following schedule: 5:30pm - 7pm cocktail reception; 7pm-9pm dinner and program; 9pm 'til 10:30pm music by DJ Bryce Williams. Highlighted during the evening will be teasers of the Festival's upcoming films.
"Our oceans have been under siege for many generations" said Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. "However, there is room for optimism in the lives and legacies of this year's honorees, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Greta Thunberg. Across the generations, these two incredible women represent the courage, vision and resilience needed to save our oceans, and build a world that sustains them into the future."
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