JUNEAU — Alaska Climate Action Network will present a series of three films about climate change, its impacts and the creative actions people around the world are taking to reduce carbon emissions and power their lives with renewable energy.
“This film series lets us consider the latest scientific information on climate change and witness amazing efforts happening around the globe to curb carbon emissions and develop renewables,” said Elaine Schroeder, one of the event’s organizer. “And it’s a lot of fun to meet up with other Juneau folks who want to do something about this crisis.”
Each of the films will be screened twice at the Goldtown Nickelodeon, starting with “How to Let Go of the World—and Love All the Things that the Climate Can’t Change”at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23 and 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24.
In the film, “Gasland” documentarian Josh Fox travels the globe to meet with global climate change “warriors” who are committed to reversing the tide of global warming. The film examines the intricately woven forces that threaten the stability of the planet and the lives of its inhabitants.
“Bidder 70,” the story of Tim DeChristopher, a young college student who disrupted a controversial BLM Oil and Gas leasing auction in Utah, will show at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 and 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7.
DeChristopher posed as a bidder (#70) and bid $1.7 million to win 22,000 acres of pristine Utah wilderness he had no intention of paying for (or drilling on). For this astonishing and courageous act of civil disobedience he was sent to federal prison for two years. Accompanying this film will be the new short, “Disobedience.”
The last film, “Time to Choose,” will show at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20 and 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21. In “Time to Choose,” Oscar-winning documentary director Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address global climate change in a new film showing the breadth of the climate challenge, the power of solutions already available, and the remarkable people working to save our planet — from American farmers and African villagers to Indonesian anti-corruption officials and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
Tickets are $10 and can be bought at the door. For more information call 907-586-5843.
The Alaska Climate Action Network is a local grass roots group focused on climate change solutions including reducing Juneau’s carbon footprint by encouraging renewable energy development.
“Our goals are to break the taboo of talking about climate change and to focus on a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy here in Juneau and around Alaska,” Schroeder said.
