Sustainable+Development

= = = **Felicity Huffman's 'Lesster' Take Responsibility for the Environment:** =

==**Felicity Huffman** released the educational short film //Lesster// as part of Liberty Mutual’s “The Responsibility Project,” to help raise environmental awareness and promote personal responsibility.== ==The short is about a busy mom (Huffman) and dad who are trying to teach their son the value of taking an environmental stand on Earth Day, yet ironically are unaware of the small day-to-day impacts they have on the environment by leaving lights on, water running and wasting energy. ‘Lesster’ is their son’s super hero alter ego who saves the day – and the environment – by doing right by Mother Earth and following up after his parents’ unbeknown wasteful ways.==

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Felicity Huffman wrote, directed and stars in “[|Lesster],” a short film that’s part of Liberty Mutual’s [|Responsibility Project]. The insurance company’s website and campaign for responsibility “explores what it means to do the right thing.” In the six-minute film, Huffman plays a mom that’s getting her son ready for an Earth Day parade and trying to teach him about caring for the environment, while she and her husband leave water running, forget to turn off the TV, drive two cars to save time, and use Styrofoam cups because “a regular mug doesn’t fit in thehybrid’s cup holder.” When the family is walking out the door to go to the parade, their son,dressed as Mother Earth, runs back in the house to heroically unplug appliances, turn off lights, rescue unused tin foil from the garbage can and adjust the thermostat to a reasonable temperature. He comes out dressed as “Lesster, the solar-powered superhero.” The film relays a simple message that knowing how to take care ofthe planet only gets us so far — true superheroes put that knowledge to work every day. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/lesster?src=keyword_s=msn_K=EnvironmentalSustainability_C=Films_G=Huffman_Environment_M=broad#fbid=jZPLrVEB1La&src=keyword_s

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= = = = = = = = = = =**Interesting Webs:** =

= = =__ United Nations Environment Programme __: http://www.unep.org/= = = =__European Commission Research & Innovation__: http://ec.europa.eu/research/sd/index_en.cfm= = = =__Environment Agency__: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/= = = =__DEFRA__ - __Department for Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs__: http://www.defra.gov.uk/= = = =__The Royal Society__: http://royalsociety.org/= = = =__The Guardian__: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainability=

=__Sustainable Development Commission__: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/= = = =__Global Issues__: http://www.globalissues.org/issue/367/sustainable-development=

=__US Environmental Protection Agency__: http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/=