A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (see: http://oilawareness.meetup.com/285/calendar/8145351/ for more details, location/directions)

Mon, July 7th, 7:00 PM
Location:
Ypsilanti Libary
229 W Michigan Ave
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
more info? questions? call: 734 482 4110 sug donation $5.00 per person
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can be applied in most cities around the world.

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil is an informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world.

A CONVENIENT TRUTH: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil includes exclusive interviews from world renowned Curitiba's mayors Jaime Lerner and Cassio Tanigushi, as well as other brilliant minds who made Curitiba a world class model.

In a time of so many inconveniences, it's good to know of places where things are done conveniently right.

See trailer: http://www.youtube.co...

Discussion will follow the movie, along with a brief business meeting. Anyone interested can stay later, and continue the discussion next door together at Bombadill's after the meeting which ends by 8:30 pm.

*** Please note that if you click on the meeting 'location" you should be taken to a link where if you put in your address, you will be then given directions to the Ypsilanti Downtown Library. It is right next door to Bombadill's coffee shop and the libary park fountain -- there is off street parking in a parking lot in back of the library and accessible from Adams Street.