Two new documentaries to be screened at YSU
As part of his ongoing lecture series on Energy and The Environment, Dr. Ray Beiersdorfer, Distinguished Professor of Geology, is bringing two new film documentaries to the YSU campus. Both films deal with environmental issues, but go beyond that. “I started this lecture series in support of YSU’s mission to foster understanding of sustainability and global perspectives,” says Beiersdorfer, “and both films address that. “Everyone needs to be talking about climate change, yet for some reason there seems to be a taboo about speaking about it.” “That needs to change, and I hope people attending this films can hang around for the discussion.” We will have Tish O’Dell and Doug Shields, both featured in We the People 2.0 in person to answer questions after the screening on Wednesday October 19th. Film maker, Josh Fox will be available via Skype after the Tuesday October 25th screening of his film. On a personal note, Beiersdorfer is proud that his daughter and YSU alumni Crystal Beiersdorfer is credited for filming some of the footage used in We the People 2.0. Both screenings are free and open to the public. The screenings are sponsored, in part, by The James Dale Ethics Center and NextGen Climate Action. Due to the ongoing campus improvements, Lincoln Avenue will be closed to vehicles. Attendees should allow extra time to avoid any problems. Anyone needing assistance should call the YSU Student Security Service at 330-941-1515.
We the People 2.0
Wednesday October 19, 2016 7 p.m.
Cushwa B100
Screening followed by Q & A with Tish O’Dell and Doug Shields (both from the movie)
“We the People 2.0 confronts its viewers with the ravages of mine tailings and leaky containment ponds, of sludge and ooze and grue, all of which, the film documents, are killing people, particularly in the cancer-blighted small towns of North America. The film’s brief is laudable: Alongside documenting grassroots activism, including the kayak flotillas that protested Shell Oil in Seattle, the film focuses on legal challenges presented to corporations by granting rights to ecosystems. Talking heads come from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit that helps small towns draft laws against fracking, factory farming, and water privatization.”
Source: http://www.wethepeople2.film/
How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change
Tuesday October 25, 2016 7 pm
Cushwa B112
Screening followed by Skype Q & A with Josh Fox
“In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?” Source: http://www.howtoletgomovie.com/
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