Benefit Screening!

A rare and immersive look into the imaginative and astonishingly intelligent world of the octopus in all their indelible singularity.

Stop Octopus Farming Showcase combines powerfully unique and cinematic videos from award-winning artists, advocates, and authors Laura Jean McKay, Jonathan Balcombe, Keri Tietge, Noam Oxman, and Hyung Ju Lee. Come together with Arukah Animal International and the community working to stop the world's first industrial octopus farm from ever happening.

Enjoy an evening of film, conversation, books, and food provided by Kitti's Place and Good Earth!

Joe Mueller

As a Professor of Biology for 30 years, Joe’s been teaching a rich diversity of courses ranging from ornithology to marine biology and environmental science as well as leading field courses from the Alaskan tundra to the biodiverse coral reefs of Indonesia. His teaching style has developed from a view of life focused on systems thinking and how interrelationships make up the essential nature of life. He developed and coordinates the Natural History Program at College of Marin and was instrumental in persuading the college to rebuild the Bolinas Field Station, the only one of its kind in California.

Joe’s central message is that all life forms are equal, and that the collective human ego is its nemesis.

Joe’s signature quote at school:

Naturalists live in a world of wounds only they can see.

Aldo Leopold