From Our Friends at Catchafire:
Leave It Better empowers people to share ideas on how to improve their communities and take action to green their neighborhood. Through a documentary production company and video-based social network, Leave It Better shares stories about people who are actively providing environmental solutions.
Leave It Better’s ReGeneration Project provides students with Flip Cams and gardens, teaching them the importance of healthy food, and empowering them with the tools to share the story of their learning. Over the course of the school year, students film each other as they learn how to compost and grow vegetables in their garden. At the end of the year, students harvest the vegetables and use them to make a meal, which everyone eats! A film is edited together of the school’s experience, using the footage filmed by students, and screened for all those involved in the program.
Other videos on the Leave It Better network offer a primer on the benefits and logistics of recycling, profiles on innovative CSA groups like the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, and an intro to eco-friendly, socially-conscious fashion at the Housing Works.
Leave it Better worked with five Catchafire professionals on a wide range of projects. Rachel Signer helped Leave It Better publicize its ReGeneration Youth Film Festival held at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on June 15, while other Catchafire professionals helped with event planning, social media, crowdfunding campaigns, and accounting.
