Fall 2018 Environmental Film Series

Presented by the Chester County Environmental Alliance

All programs will be held at West Chester University Business Building: 50 W Sharpless St, West Chester, PA Room 101 (map) on the first Friday of each month: Sep - Dec

Sep 7: The Future We Want: A World of Difference - several award winning shorts focusing on local solutions to the legacy of fossil fuels, plastic pollution and extreme weather

Oct 5: Sustainable Fashion – exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet

Nov 2: Poisoning Paradise -  What are your health risks to chemical exposure?

Dec 7: The Future of Energy -  Getting ready for a clean, affordable, renewable energy future

When: Doors Open at 6:30pm, Movies start at 7pm

Friday, September 7 The Future We Want: A World of Difference

A series of short videos focusing on local solutions to the legacy of fossil fuels, plastic pollution and extreme weather.

See list and links to the shorts shown at the Sep 7 event BELOW.

Some of the videos we'll see include:

• Are You Eating Plastics For Dinner
• Climate Change Awareness Story Book
• Our Future with Morgan Freeman

Friday October 5: The True Cost - exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet

A story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?

Trailer:  https://youtu.be/QPMU1VHgmEo

Friday November 2:   Poisoning Paradise   What are your health risks to chemical exposure?

Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, where communities are surrounded by experimental test sites and pesticides sprayed upwind of their neighborhoods. Poisoning Paradise details the ongoing struggle to advance bold new legislation governing the fate of their island home. In an attempt to diversify an economy that was overly reliant on tourism, policymakers in both Hawaii and Washington, D.C. encouraged the world’s largest biotech companies to utilize Kauai’s favorable climate and fertile soil to test genetically engineered seeds and crops.

Corporations including Syngenta, Pioneer DuPont, BASF, and Dow Agrosciences have since applied hundreds of tons of Restricted Use (RU) pesticides on thousands of acres across the Garden Island’s West Side, the traditional homeland of an indigenous and disenfranchised population. Interviews with local residents, scientists, and healthcare professionals reveal the hardships and ecological dangers of intensive and continuous pesticide applications and the environmental injustice thrust upon people living in one of the most sacred, biologically unique and diverse locations on earth. Award-winning investigative journalist Paul Kolberstein describes Kauai as “one of the most toxic agricultural environments in all of American agriculture.”

As champions of a grassroots movement to make Kauai County Bill 2491 law, local activists battle political corruption, corporate bullying, and systematic concealment by the agrichemical industry. Although Kauai’s plight might seem like a local issue, this debate is in fact raging around the world as country after country is becoming concerned about pesticides, the future of food, and sustainable farming practices

Trailer -  http://www.poisoningparadise.com/trailer/

Friday December 7: The Future of Energy   Getting ready for a clean, affordable, renewable energy future

A documentary that captures the movement across the Unites States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It's a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story about the countless individuals and communities that are re-imagining their relationship with the planet and with each other. The film focuses on solutions to climate change and advocates for the use of 100% renewable energy.

The work of 350.org, Green for All, Alliance for Climate Education, and Go100%, along with that of many other organizations, is featured in the film. The documentary highlights the work of influential climate change activists and visionary renewable energy advocates including: Jeremy Rifkin, best selling author of The Third Industrial Revolution and principle architect of the European Union's renewable energy movement; Bill Mckibben, author and leading environmental activist on climate change; Joanna Macy, author and eco-philosopher; Danny Kennedy, author of Rooftop Revolution and co-founder of Sungevity solar company; Diane Moss, founder of Renewables 100 Policy Institute; Mark Jacobson, Director of Atmosphere and Energy program at Stanford University and co founder of the Solutions Project; and Pandora Thomas, sustainability consultant and environmental educator. In addition, there are also appearances by Billy Parrish, Co Founder of Mosaic, Marco Krapels, co founder of Solutions Project, and many more. The Film also features the Mayors of two U.S. towns that have transitioned to renewables already; The Mayor of Lancaster, California, Rex Parris, who's transitioned to solar energy, and the Mayor of Greensburg, Kansas, Bob Dixon, who's transitioned to wind energy.

Trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRvU-5OVhDM