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Globe Gazette - Elizabeth Muse Norris Charitable Fund, Mercy
Medical
Center – North
Iowa and Principal Financial Group proudly present…
Jean-Michel Cousteau
“Redesigning Our Future: The Great Ocean
Adventure"
Oceanographer, Activist, Explorer, and Filmmaker
For more than four decades, explorer,
environmentalist, educator, and film producer Jean-Michel Cousteau has
used his vast experience to communicate to people of all nations and
generations his love and concern for our water planet.
The son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he spent much of his
life with his family exploring the world's oceans aboard
Calypso and
Alcyone. After his mother's
death in 1990, and his father's death in 1997, Cousteau founded Ocean
Futures Society in 1999 to carry on this pioneering work. Cousteau
serves as an impassioned spokesman and diplomat for the environment,
reaching out to the public through a variety of media. He has produced
over 70 films and been awarded the Emmy, the Peabody Award, the 7 d'Or -
the French equivalent of the Emmy, and the Cable ACE Award.
In this talk, Jean-Michel Cousteau explores how the world has
become one community through the communication advances of the past few
decades, and how what happens on one corner of the world effects
another. He uses this analogy to show how the whole world is also
connected through the environment. What we do in our social and
business lives impacts the environment, and what happens to the
environment impacts our social and business lives. He shows how
the environment needs to be managed like a corporation – living off the
profits and interest, and not off the capital itself. He discusses
the work of his Ocean Futures organization, and how passionate he is
about children and our need to cultivate the young minds of tomorrow.
He shares many personal stories, ranging from voyages with his father,
to working with Pixar on the film
Finding Nemo. All the stories illustrate how the effects of global
warming can be curtailed, even by the efforts of just a few individuals.
The presentation centers around three video pieces. One
illustrates the interconnectivity between the oceans and life on land.
The second is footage of his upcoming television series. The third
is a hilarious segment he and Ellen Degeneres did for the DVD release of
Finding Nemo..
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009, 7:30 PM
$15.00 for adults
$5.00 for students
Call for Tickets 641-422-4188
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