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Join us for the Montreal Premiere of How to Power a City!
We are excited to host the Montreal premiere of this new documentary that showcases climate solutions and renewable energy projects that communities across the U.S. are implementing.
The screening takes place at Cinéma du musée on Nov. 19, 2024, at 4:00 pm.
Following the screening, Director Melanie La Rosa will join us for a panel discussion with Q&A, followed by cocktails.
Thank you to MSSI, Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), TISED and Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy (TISPP) for partnering with us for this event!
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About the documentary
"How To Power A City" is a solutions-focused climate story. It is a front-row seat to witness how people are leading solar and wind projects in their hometowns.
The film reveals how each community faces obstacles from fossil fuel dependence to technical impasses, public ignorance, cost, indifferent leaders, and superstorm disasters.
They prevail with solutions that do more than just create electricity.
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Director Melanie La Rosa
is an award-winning filmmaker and professor. Her documentary, "How To Power A City" (2023) follows people leading renewable energy projects in six U.S. and Puerto Rico locales.
She is a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the author of "Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution" (Lexington Books, 2022).
Her films air nationally on PBS and have screened at festivals worldwide. Her articles appear in World War Zero, The Progressive, and other national publications, and she has won many competitive grants supporting her films.
Panelists
is the Manager of the Renewables in Remote Communities program at the . At Pembina, Emily’s work focusses on supporting Indigenous-led clean energy in remote communities through exploring the topics of energy policy, utility regulation in remote communities, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), diesel reliance, and microgrids.
Emily’s background and ongoing projects have culminated in a detailed understanding of the intersectional social, policy, and technical nature of the clean energy transition in remote communities.
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is a media studies and environmental humanities scholar of settler-British and Métis descent. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Â鶹AV. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta.
Mylène Riva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Â鶹AV where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Housing, Community and Health. She leads an applied research program that spans health geography and population health to understand housing conditions as structural determinants of health and as settings for intervention to promote health and well-being in urban, rural, and remote geographical locations.
Her research explores the intersection between housing, energy, and health, with a focus on energy poverty and energy justice. She is committed to working with communities, organizations, and governments to provide rigorous scientific evidence that can be used to inform practice and public policy.
