Please join us for a screening of Carbon Nation at the Kirkland Town Library, 55 1/2 College St., Clinton, NY, on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 6:30pm and Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at 3:00pm. Carbon Nation will be the first in a series of movies exploring ways of increasing local resilience and sustainability. We will have two showings, each one followed by discussion. For more information contact: kirklandintransition@gmail.com
Tired of the doom-and-gloom news about climate change? Carbon Nation is an inspirational, optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary by Director Peter Byck that illustrates why it’s incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it’s good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment.
The film features a cast of engaging and endearing characters from across the country, in towns big and small, and introduces us to the new wave of American ingenuity. One-armed Texas cotton farmer Cliff Etheridge is banding together the land of small farmers to create one enormous wind farm. Meanwhile, green jobs innovator Van Jones is bringing clean technology and jobs to inner cities. Carbon Nation makes it clear that entrepreneurs, visionaries, scientists, and the everyday man are already creating the inventive ideas needed to combat climate change. By bringing their innovations to light, Carbon Nation is a film that celebrates solutions and inspires action. Watch the trailer at www.carbonnationmovie.com.
The movie series, Solutions: Local Responses to Climate Change, is sponsored by Kirkland in Transition, part of a movement to envision and work towards a future of interdependence and cooperation, creating a resilient local community that will grow more of its own food, generate more of its own power, build houses using local materials, and move towards sustainable transportation, economy, and ways of life. www.facebook.com/
More information about the whole series:
Solutions: Local Responses to Climate Change
A series of movies exploring ways of increasing local resilience and sustainability. Each movie will have an evening and an afternoon showing, followed by discussion.
Carbon Nation: a climate change solutions movie (that doesn’t even care if you believe in climate change). “An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending climate crisis.” (IMDB) 2011, 1 hour 20 minutes.
Tuesday, March 18, 6:30pm.
Wednesday, March 19, 3:00pm.
In Transition 2.0: A story of community and climate resilience in a time of global inaction. “You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places.” (transitionus.org) 2012, 1 hour 6 minutes.
Monday, April 21, 6:30pm.
Tuesday, April 22 (Earth Day!), 3:00.
End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. “With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply.” (IMDB) 2004, 78 min.
Monday, May 5, 6:30pm.
Wednesday, May 7, 3:00.
How to Boil a Frog. “How to Boil a Frog is an eco-comedy that gives an overview of the Big Mess We’re In – environment, energy, economic – and lays out a set of personal solutions that will make your life better and save civilization as a by-product.” (IMDB) 2009, 88 min.
Tuesday, May 20, 6:30pm.
Wednesday, May 21, 3:00.
Blind Spot. “Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse.” (IMDB) 2008, 88 minutes
Monday, June 9, 6:30pm.
Wednesday, June 11, 3:00.
Nourish: Food and Community. “Nourish traces our relationship to food from a global perspective to personal action steps, illustrating connections to health, climate change, and social justice, and celebrating the role of good food in creating a sustainable future.” (IMDB) 2009, 27 minutes.
Monday, June 23, 6:30pm.
Wednesday, June 25, 3:00.
All movies at the Kirkland Town Library, 55 ½ College St, Clinton, NY. For more information, contactkirklandintransition@
The post Please join us for a screening of Carbon Nation at the Kirkland Town Library (VIDEO) appeared first on The Utica Phoenix.