Rex Weyler to be the keynote speaker at B.C. Motion Picture Industry Week's Green forum.
Pacific Green is pleased to sponsor Rex Weyler, co-founder of Green Peace International and director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, to deliver his renowned talk on resource use and overshoot.
Rex is a notable author, journalist and publisher with numerous books and publications in circulation. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1982, Weyler has remained active in environmental and peace issues. In 1991, he helped draft dioxin emission levels for pulp mills in British Columbia. In 2006, he served as Program Coordinator for World Peace Forum.
Mr. Weyler is featured in the documentary, Greenpeace: Making a Stand, a history of Greenpeace, including a dramatic modern campaign in Argentina that preserved the forest homeland of the Wichi Indians, threatened by industrial soy plantations.
Motion Picture week kicks of in Vancouver on November 13, 2009. The Green Forum will be on November 16, 2009. For more information on this event visit: www.mppiaevents.com

