Citizens for a Sustainable Local Economy (CSLE)
Ten Mile River Watershed, Massachusetts, USA
2009 Green Reel Film Series
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Event: The Green Reel: Films for Sustainable Living
Date: Five Sunday Evenings this Winter: Jan 25, Feb1, Feb 8, Feb 22, March 1
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Agudas Achim, 901 N. Main Street, Attleboro
Description: The public is invited to the Green Reel Sustainable Living Film Series. Living sustainably takes many forms – from how our food is produced and what we choose to eat, to how we house ourselves, how we get ourselves to and from work, as well the products we make, use and dispose of.
The Green Reel presents a series of films that depict the challenges to sustainable living – as well as some real-life examples of how regular folks are opting for “green” solutions in their everyday lives.
Following each film, local experts will be available to discuss the film and provide information on green initiatives that individuals can plug into.
The films are free and open to the public and are appropriate for high school students and adults.
Films:
January 25 - King Corn
East coast friends Ian Chenney and Curt Ellis move back to America's Corn Belt to plant an acre of the nation's most-grown and most-subsidized grain in an attempt to follow their crop into the U.S. food supply. What they discover about genetically modified seeds, powerful herbicides and the realities of modern farming calls into question government subsidies, our fast-food lifestyle and the quality of our food. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Farmer Terri Lawton, Oake Knoll Ayrshires Raw Milk Dairy Farm, Foxboro
Farmer Christy Raymond, White Barn Farm, Wrentham
February 1 - Escape from Suburbia
After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia,filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe. Spurred to action by therealities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Marj Immonen, Suburban Home Gardener
February 8 - Everything’s Cool
A film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swansong of pseudo-scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the US from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy — AND FAST. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Rob Garrity, Executive Director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) and Norfolk Town Selectman
February 22 - The Next Industrial Revolution
We live in a time of increasing environmental concerns. Doomsday scenarios abound based on an increasing human population competing for ever scarcer natural resources. Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart offer a different vision of the future -- one where humanity works with nature, where technical enterprises are continually reinvented as safe and ever renewing natural processes. Can't happen? It's already happening.
Discussants/local experts: To Be Announced
March 1 - Renewal
Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal. Muslims are supporting sustainable farming. Jews are helping children experience the bond between nature and spirituality. For the first time, the combined energy of these diverse activists is the driving force behind a feature-length documentary “Renewal”. Veteran film producers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller have crisscrossed the country to capture these exciting stories of people whose passion and deep moral commitment are making a difference in a time of grave ecological threats. (2008)
Discussants/local experts: Chris Loughlin, Crystal Spring Center for Ecology and Spirituality, Plainville
Green Committee of First Universalist Society of Franklin
Contact: Beth Jackson; bethj77@comcast.net; 508-695-2389 (h); 508-298-9450 (c)
Event: The Green Reel: Films for Sustainable Living
Date: Five Sunday Evenings this Winter: Jan 25, Feb1, Feb 8, Feb 22, March 1
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Agudas Achim, 901 N. Main Street, Attleboro
Description: The public is invited to the Green Reel Sustainable Living Film Series. Living sustainably takes many forms – from how our food is produced and what we choose to eat, to how we house ourselves, how we get ourselves to and from work, as well the products we make, use and dispose of.
The Green Reel presents a series of films that depict the challenges to sustainable living – as well as some real-life examples of how regular folks are opting for “green” solutions in their everyday lives.
Following each film, local experts will be available to discuss the film and provide information on green initiatives that individuals can plug into.
The films are free and open to the public and are appropriate for high school students and adults.
Films:
January 25 - King Corn
East coast friends Ian Chenney and Curt Ellis move back to America's Corn Belt to plant an acre of the nation's most-grown and most-subsidized grain in an attempt to follow their crop into the U.S. food supply. What they discover about genetically modified seeds, powerful herbicides and the realities of modern farming calls into question government subsidies, our fast-food lifestyle and the quality of our food. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Farmer Terri Lawton, Oake Knoll Ayrshires Raw Milk Dairy Farm, Foxboro
Farmer Christy Raymond, White Barn Farm, Wrentham
February 1 - Escape from Suburbia
After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia,filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe. Spurred to action by therealities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Marj Immonen, Suburban Home Gardener
February 8 - Everything’s Cool
A film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swansong of pseudo-scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the US from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy — AND FAST. (2007)
Discussants/local experts: Rob Garrity, Executive Director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) and Norfolk Town Selectman
February 22 - The Next Industrial Revolution
We live in a time of increasing environmental concerns. Doomsday scenarios abound based on an increasing human population competing for ever scarcer natural resources. Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart offer a different vision of the future -- one where humanity works with nature, where technical enterprises are continually reinvented as safe and ever renewing natural processes. Can't happen? It's already happening.
Discussants/local experts: To Be Announced
March 1 - Renewal
Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal. Muslims are supporting sustainable farming. Jews are helping children experience the bond between nature and spirituality. For the first time, the combined energy of these diverse activists is the driving force behind a feature-length documentary “Renewal”. Veteran film producers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller have crisscrossed the country to capture these exciting stories of people whose passion and deep moral commitment are making a difference in a time of grave ecological threats. (2008)
Discussants/local experts: Chris Loughlin, Crystal Spring Center for Ecology and Spirituality, Plainville
Green Committee of First Universalist Society of Franklin
Contact: Beth Jackson; bethj77@comcast.net; 508-695-2389 (h); 508-298-9450 (c)
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