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Film: “A Fierce Green Fire; The Battle for a Living Planet”
April 8 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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An Earth Day Event presented by Sierra Club of Maine and the Waldo County Climate Action Coalition
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization… the film tells vivid stories about people fighting – and succeeding – against enormous odds.
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award-nominee Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties), this one hour documentary spans 50 years of grassroots and global activism from the 1960s-2009 and connects the major causes of environmentalism, from conservation to climate change. Narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones and Isabel Allende, the film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has won acclaim worldwide.
Free and open to all. Discussion to follow.
