The Cottonwood Creek Environmental Film Series is organized annually by the Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association (DEMA), in order to help promote downtown Encinitas and to raise environmental awareness. The 2011 Cottonwood Creek Environmental Film Series is presented by Stellar Solar and will be powered by the Stellar Mobile Solar Station (seen below). The series consists of three monthly film screenings at the new Pacific Station plaza, 687 S. Coast Hwy 101. All film screenings are free and take place from sunset to 9:00 pm. Whole Foods Market will be popping organic popcorn- free for all film attendees!
Roll up on or in anything besides a gasoline car for a free raffle ticket. Ride a bike, skateboard, strap on your blades, use your feet, charge an electric car or get creative. (Sorry, but hybrid vehicles do not count.) Bring your own beach chair because seating is limited.
Thursday, April 28th: Out There
Rise Above Plastics and the Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter, are proud to present Out There, a film that takes viewers to a variety of breaks around the world, showcasing the cutting edge surfing of today. Through the eyes and experiences of surfers and locals, the film takes a thought-provoking look into the environmental destruction threatening key surf spots such as Trestles in Southern California, surf in Southern Chile threatened by pulp mills, Teahupoo and its growing popularity, mainland Mexico, North Shore Hawaii near the Turtle Bay development and beyond.
Thursday, May 26th: Wherever You Want to Go part of the BMW Activate the Future Series
“Wherever You Want To Go” is the first release under BMW Documentaries—a new franchise dedicated to crafting original, thought-provoking and entertaining content. The film aims to take audiences to a place they’ve truly never been: the future. From the minds of some of the most influential scientists, academics, pioneers, and entrepreneurs of our time, this four-part documentary paints a unique picture of technology, culture, cities, our past, present and how it all relates to the future of mobility.
Included in this special evening is an “E-Mobility” show from 5:30-7:00pm featuring over 20 electric cars, scooters and alternative transportation vehicles. The car show will take place underground in the garage below Pacific Station. The film will start at 7:45pm. The evening will conclude with a panel discussion from 8:30-9pm focused on the future of transportation.
Thursday, June 23rd: Urban Roots presented by Whole Foods Market
The industrial powerhouse of a lost American era has died, and the skeleton left behind is present-day Detroit. But now, against all odds in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and in-between the sad, sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root. A small group of dedicated citizens, allied with environmental and academic groups, have started an urban environmental movement with the potential to transform not just a city after its collapse, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban Roots is the story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people — as in much of the county — have found themselves cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. The people of Detroit have taken on the enormous task of changing this for themselves, and to understand their story is to understand how we can change it for us all.
Thank you to our media partner Natural Awakenings Magazine! 
