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Have you ever wondered what happens to our money that we save in banks, pension and retirement funds? For Earth Month - April, Green Sofa Cinema Series (GSCS) brings you Our Planet: Too Big to Fail, an eye-opening new film by World Wildlife Fund that explores the link between the financial system and the health of our planet. This 40-minute film illuminates how the strength and stability of our economy, and indeed human civilization, is underpinned by the resources and services that Nature provides. The financial sector has often been a driver of the destruction of these natural systems. Calling for urgent, systemic change across the financial sector, the film presents the choice that financial institutions need to make – continue their reckless, shortsighted funding practices or invest the more than $300 Trillion dollars in the global capital markets towards the transformative solutions needed to avert the climate and biodiversity crises.

GSCS invites you to watch Our Planet: Too Big to Fail at your leisure, or better yet host a watch party! Then join us for a Zoom event on Wednesday April 20 to discuss the film and hear from our inspirational speaker, Jim Thompson. Jim is the founder of THIS! Is What We Did (ThisIsWhatWeDid.org), an Ashoka fellow and former Director of the Public Management Program at Stanford University. His non-profit is focused on tackling the climate literacy gap, growing the ‘Move Your Money’ campaign and building community through collective climate action.

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Green Sofa Cinema Series is sponsored by 350 Contra Costa, Generation Green, Sustainable Contra Costa and Sustainable Rossmoor.