SILVERDOCS GOES CARBON NEUTRAL
The Festival announced this week that it will become the first carbon neutral documentary festival in the US through a partnership with Clean Currents, LLC, a DC-area sustainably-operated clean energy business that is donating carbon offsets. The company will measure the carbon emissions from the energy used by the
film festival and purchase clean energy credits to completely offset them. Clean Currents will also advise and help SILVERDOCS promote environmental initiatives at the Fest.

"SILVERDOCS is thrilled to partner with Clean Currents to do our part in the race to save our planet. Documentary film has long been at the center of social awareness on environmental issues. Taking the lead from Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, now we're not only talking, but changing how we do business. This June, SILVERDOCS will be carbon neutral, and we invite the documentary community to join us in going green," said Festival Director Patricia Finneran.
"We're pleased to help SILVERDOCS make an amazing statement about the need to fight global warming and protect our environment," noted Gary Skulnik, Clean Currents' President. "Silver Spring was home to the mother of the environmental movement, Rachel Carson
, and now it's home to the first carbon neutral documentary film festival in the entire country." It is the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birth. The Silver Spring activist and writer is commonly credited with starting the environmental movement with her book, Silent Spring.

If you live in the DC area, check out Clean Currents.
You can purchase clean energy from them and it just shows up on your regular power bill that a portion is for wind power.

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