Film Screening - WHAT A WAY TO GO: life at the end of empire

Submitted Sun, 2008-01-06 12:11 — Sam Schmidt

Post Carbon Salt Lake presents:

WHAT A WAY TO GO:
life at the end of empire

Thursday, January 17
6:30 pm
Union Theater
University of Utah

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning.

“...beautifully written and intimate...”
- Kelpie Wilson, t r u t h o u t

“Despite its uncompromising challenges to viewers, I predict it will quickly acquire “cult status” because of its power to change lives and to motivate people to change events and that we’ll be hearing a lot about it over the coming years.”
- Keith Thomas, Nature & Society Forum

“I get excited about very few movies, but this is one of them and is perhaps the most important media message of our time.,,,It is a great feat for one movie to serve as an entire wake-up call and a complete analysis of our global dilemma. "What a Way to Go" delivers as few films in the history of documentary cinema do.”
- Jan Lundberg, CultureChange.org

Event title:
Film Screening - WHAT A WAY TO GO: life at the end of empire

Start:
2008-01-17 18:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-17 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

Union Theater University of Utah - Student Union

Salt Lake City, UT
United States

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/

• Film screening
• climate change
• Mass Extinction
• peak oil
• Population Overshoot

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Education's Role in a More Sustainable Future

Submitted Sat, 2008-01-12 09:04 — Adam Mayer

Education's Role in a More Sustainable Future
PSU's Social Sustainability Colloquium Winter Term Launch

January 17 Education's Role in a More Sustainable Future
Chuck Hopkins, a UN University Chair on Education for Sustainable Development
Thursday, January 17, 10:30-12:30
Free. Smith Center, PSU, 1825 SW Broadway Ave, Room 294, Portland, Oregon.

Education is essential in moving societies toward a more sustainable
future. Chuck Hopkins, a UN University Chair on Education for
Sustainable Development, looks at education's roles in such a future
by addressing each of the four thrusts of the United Nations Decade of
Education for a more sustainable future: (1) improving access and
retention in basic education, (2) reorienting existing education to
address sustainability, (3) improving public understanding and
awareness of sustainability, and (4) providing training. Each of
these four provides special challenges and opportunities in North
America and around the world as societies strive to create locally
relevant and culturally appropriate education programs that address
the local environmental, social, and economic contexts. Hopkins gives
examples from cultures around the world. He illustrates the wide
range of sustainability problems of both the poor and the wealthy.

Presenter
Charles (Chuck) Hopkins is a United Nations University Chair on
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the UNESCO Chair on
Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability at York
University in Toronto, Canada. He is a leader in environmental
education and the nascent field of ESD and speaks to organizations
around the world.

Event title:
Education's Role in a More Sustainable Future

Start:
2008-01-17 10:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-17 12:30

• Speaker presentation
• Sustainablity

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Circles for Women

Submitted Sun, 2007-12-30 22:05 — bgilday

Circles of Women
New evening group begins Jan. 16, 6:15 -9:00 PM
Facilitator, Barbara Gilday, 676-0765, www.BarbaraGilday.com

Purpose:
 To connect with others at a deep level, share our stories, learn and practice tools for positive transitions and more fulfilling futures.

Principles:
 We all have the wisdom within to deal with whatever we are experiencing.
 Being listened to deeply, allows our higher self and wisdom to surface.
 A small group of caring souls, provides a container for healthy, holistic process

Process:
 Using the process called, Appreciative Inquiry, we will focus on the values and strengths we have brought to the best times of our
lives. From that awareness, we will turn & look at our futures & begin to look at our possibilities in new ways.

Event title:
Circles for Women

Start:
2008-01-16 18:15 (Calendar)

End:
2008-03-05 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

Bellingham, WA, 98225
United States

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Event Website:
http://www.bellinghambizeview.com/page/show/203

Contact Email:
journeys@nas.com

• Training
• Appreciative Inquiry
• communication
• positive outlook
• relationships
• transformation
• transition

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Running On Empty film series

Submitted Tue, 2008-01-08 17:53 — MaureenL

FYI - The Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile, is presenting a series of free documentary films in association with its exhibition "Sorry, Out of Gas". The three remaining films are listed below.

Running On Empty
A series of documentary films considering society’s addiction to oil and possible cures.

Thursdays at 7 pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Free admission

10 January
Escape from Suburbia
2007, 95 min.

17 January
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
2006, 53 min.

31 January
Design E2
2006, 90 min.

Event title:
Running On Empty film series

Start:
2008-01-10 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-31 19:00

Event Website:
http://www.cca.qc.ca

Contact Email:
communication@cca.qc.ca

• Film screening
• environmental design
• local agriculture
• peak oil

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