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Eco-Flicks Summer Series First Screening:

EVERYTHING’S COOL

July 18, 2008 12PM-1:30PM

Devens Eco-Efficiency Center Office

33 Andrews Parkway—Conference Room 1

 

Summer is the time to kick back, shift gears, and take the time to go to the movies!  So sneak out at noon, bring your lunch bag, and join us for an entertaining and informative Eco-Flick.  Popcorn will be available!  On July 18, 12:00-1:30, we will feature the “toxic comedy” Everything’s Cool.  In this documentary, the producers “follow the country and our global warming messengers through an extraordinary three years of transformation, from 2003-to the eve of 2007.”  The timing of this showing is appropriate, given the recent and long overdue acknowledgement of climate change and the current discussion of a national cap and trade policy.  “EVERYTHING'S COOL is 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.”  (See http://everythingscool.org/ for additional information.)

Here are a few options, but feel free to suggest others that may not be listed here:

 

 

A Crude Awakening - tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/

 

 

 

 

Blue Vinyl - this sardonic but sobering exposé, activist filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold reveal the potentially toxic effects of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which is used in everything from cars to water mains to toys. Armed with a piece of blue vinyl siding, Helfand and Gold head to Louisiana -- America's vinyl-manufacturing capital -- and to Italy, where bigwigs from a PVC-producing company stand accused of manslaughter in a landmark case.http://www.bluevinyl.org/

 

 

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 swan song 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 vive the US from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy – AND FAST http://everythingscool.org/article.php?list=type&type=10

 

 

 

 

Who Killed the Electric Car - a 2006 documentary film that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology. http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/trailer

 

 

 

Global Warming - What's Up With The Weather: This two-hour special from NOVA and FRONTLINE explores the phenomenon of global warming, the controversial opinions surrounding it, and its impact for life on Earth. With record-high temperatures in the early 21st century, this film examines how greenhouse gasses influence climate change. Experts share their interpretations of this phenomenon, man's role in it, and their differing (and often unsettling) predictions for the future.   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/

 

 

 

 

Power Shift: Energy + Sustainability - Hosted and narrated by Cameron Diaz, this exciting four-part program circles the globe, exploring the remarkable ways that energy touches our daily lives. Cleverly weaving together the lives of astronauts in the Space Station, villagers in the Amazon, and an actress in Hollywood, the film examines vital energy issues and suggests ways that students can create a sustainable future. http://goworldlink.org/programs/powershift.html

 

 

Manufactured Landscapes - The film follows internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky whose large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams create stunningly beautiful art from civilization s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country s massive industrial revolution. Burtynsky's photographs allow us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste. http://www.mongrelmedia.com/films/ManufacturedLandscapes.html

 

 

King Corn – a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast food nation.  King Corn follows the path of corn, from planting and harvesting, through, into the food system.  What they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/previewpop.html  http://www.kingcorn.net/

 

So bring your lunch and join us for this interesting and thought provoking film.  We’ll be providing free popcorn for all those who attend, just e-mail your name and contact info. Before July 15 to donaneely@ecostardevens.com.  Hope to see you there!!