Produced and Directed by Michael Rouse Michael Rouse was born and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia but after high school hightailed it to the sunnier climes of California to study at Los Angeles City College, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in Motion Picture Production. While still a student at LACC, Michael fanned the flames of his passion for documentary by traveling to New York City to meet the legendary Maysles Brothers, pioneers of direct-cinema filmmaking and apprenticing as an assistant to David Maysles. In 1984, as his final project at L.A. City College. Michael produced and directed Tanabe, a 16 mm black-and-white poetic eulogy to an elderly Japanese man who had been murdered in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. Tanabe won a number of awards, including Best Short Film at the 1985 San Francisco Poetry Film Festival. In 1990, after returning to Canada, Michael produced and directed Under the B13, a humorous-but-touching 20-minute 16 mm documentary about Bingo in Nova Scotia. Under the B13 received the 1991 Atlantic Film Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Direction award, and was selected for the Art Bank of Canada. In 2006 Michael produced and directed The Crew- and 6 part (half hours) educational, documentary series about the technical positions in the film industry. The Crew has aired on Saskatchewan Communications Network, ACCESS and Canadian Learning Television. The Crew is featured on the website www.thecrew-educational.com Michael's current projects in development include Working Green an on-line interactive series about environmental careers, Red Rover, a cinema verite exploration of the games children play and 24-Hour Exile, a documentary about a Red Cross refugee simulation. Michael is president of Lakeland Productions and currently lives in Vancouver. Researcher/Consultant Kim Davis Once dubbed Vancouver's 'green roof girl,' Kim has spent nearly 20 years exploring the diverse and complex terrain of sustainability. A researcher by training, a writer by serendipity, Kim relishes discovering and telling the stories that define and are changing the landscape of our world. From living walls and biomimicry to earth architecture and feng shui, Kim has delved into a wide range of topics and issues. In 2005, she was invited by the Vancouver Sun to author 'Living Green,' one of Canada's first newspaper columns dedicated to sustainability. The bi-weekly column now regularly finds its way across Canada and, courtesy of the blogsphere, to exotic locales around the world. In addition to her advanced credentials in curiosity, Kim holds degrees in social ecology, psychology, and architectural studies. Living locally, but working globally, Kim's work has taken her to far away places such as Japan, China, and the Philippines. She is currently the lead author of a Canada/China collaboration for a sustainable living exhibit for the city of Chongqing, the world's largest and fastest growing metropolis. Board of Advisors Mike Gerbis President & CEO, The Delphi Group Chris Henderson President, Lumos Energy Michael Kerford Vice-President, Environmental Careers Organization David Morley National Co-Chair, Young Environmental Professionals Ken Olgilvie Exectutive Director, Pollution Probe Coro Strandberg Principal, Standberg Consulting Dr. David Wheeler Dean of Management, Dalhousie University Richard Christie Program Coordinator, Ecological Literacy Toronto District School Board