| S u s t a i n a b l e D a w s o n |

You are invited to enter the 2nd annual Sustainable Dawson Video Competition:

Criteria:

• up to 4 minutes running time
• any Dawson student in any department may enter
• video can be documentary, narrative, or experimental
• underlying purpose is to raise awareness about some aspect of sustainability
• Prizes $300, $200, and $100

The Sustainable Dawson Video Competition is a joint effort by the Department of Cinema and Communications and Sustainable Dawson and the Dawson Student Success Action Plan to raise student awareness about issues of sustainability. What is sustainability? you may well ask. This is precisely why we are holding this competition: we want to explore the boundaries of how sustainability can be interpreted.

According to the Brundtland Commission report:

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:

• the concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and

• the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the
environment's ability to meet present and future needs.

Sustainability is both local and global, and touches on a great many themes including: consumption (our purchases and the things we eat), our use of energy, water and other resources; our relationship to the environment; economics (topical these days: responsible spending and investing); our relationships with others (e.g. how it will impact future generations)