New Film and filmmaker: A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Wednesday, April 9, 7 pm, free in Jensen Lecture Hall at Warren Wilson College. We will also be hosting the film-maker, Mark Kitchell, who will introduce the film and answer questions. Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought - and succeeded - against enormous odds. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to fighting toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace to Chico Mendes and Warren County, N.C.; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, A Fierce Green Fire is nothing less than the history of environmentalism itself (Los Angeles Times). The film also deals with the start of the Environmental Justice movement in Warren County, NC in the 80s, and points some ways forward in the challenges in NC of Climate Change and of Duke Energys recent contaminations of public waterways (including the French Broad) From the Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones and Isabel Allende. Featuring Lois Gibbs, Paul Watson, Bill McKibben, Paul Hawken, Carl Pope, John Adams, Bob Bullard, Amory Lovins, Barbara Bramble, Jennifer Morgan and more. For more information check out the web site: afiercegreenfire/trailer.html A big thank you to Steven Norris!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:15:16 +0000
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