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Artemesia Films for Action screening of Economics of Happiness documentary about economic localization including Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Bill McKibben and more!

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By John Toth

Artemesia Moviehouse, the Buy Local Reno Sparks Business Co-Op and Green Business Chamber are happy to be launching 2013 Films for Action series with screening of ‘The Economics of Happiness’ on Feb 19, 2013, a new documentary film by the International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) about the worldwide movement for economic localization. The film features a chorus of voices calling for systemic economic change, including Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Juliet Schor, Zac Goldsmith, Bill McKibben, and Samdhong Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of Tibet's government in exile.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion.

View the film's website: www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org
View the film's trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkdnFYDbiBE
Become a facebook fan of The Economics of Happiness: www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/The-Economics-of-Happiness/129994847035746?ref=ts
The Economics of Happiness on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ec http ://twitter.com/EconofHappiness onofHappiness

additional dates in the schedule:

March 26, 2013 April 30, 2013 May 28, 2013 June 18, 2013

Summer break July & August

Resume Sept-Dec 2013

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Artemesia Moviehouse website

RenoSparks (N. Nevada and Eastern CA) Films For Action Chapter website

Buy Local Reno Sparks Business Co-Op and Green Business Chamber website

It is our intention to develop "Community Action Guides" to help us with taking action after viewing and discussing the films.

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