Film Screening: A Place at the Table Thursday, October 17th Greenwich, CT

A Place at the Table: Documentary and Discussion

Neighbor to Neighbor, the non-profit organization which is the food and clothing pantry of Greenwich, is partnering with Greenwich Library to provide a viewing of the award winning documentary “A Place at the Table” which was released March 2013. The film viewing will be followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session on the topic of hunger.
This documentary examines the issue of hunger in the United States by highlighting three Americans that struggle daily with food insecurity. In the U.S. today, 50 million people and a staggering one in four children do not know where their next meal is coming from. This program hopes to educate our community about hunger and the lack of food security in the U.S. and in Greenwich and its surrounding communities in particular.

Program is free and no registration is required.

October 17th
6:30PM - 9:00PM
Greenwich Library: Cole Auditorium
101 W Putnam Ave  Greenwich, CT 06830

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Film screening: “Scarred Lands: The Environmental Footprint of War"

Film screening: “Scarred Lands: The Environmental Footprint of War"

The Green Party invites area members and other concerned individuals to a viewing of “Scarred Lands and Ruined Lives, The Environmental Footprint of War on Saturday, September 21 at the Cyrus Russell Community House, 779 Route 35 in Cross River (across from Yellow Monkey Village) . This important new film delves into an issue which lies at the confluence of two of the greatest concerns of our time.

Doors open at 7:30 for discussion of party matters and general pre-film mingling, and the film starts at 8.

Email gpwestchester@gmail.com with questions and/or encouragement.

Saturday, September 21
7PM
Cyrus Russell Community House
779 ROUTE 35, Cross River, NY

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Gasland Part II Screening: Wednesday, September 11th Rye

Grassroots Environmental Education & Wainwright House

present...

GASLAND II 

The sequel to "GASLAND," this film not only continues to explore the damage to our nation from the practice of drilling for natural gas using horizontal hydrofracking, but also includes interviews with scientific experts about why fracking can never be done safely and the economic and technical capacity for renewable energy resources that are readily available eliminating the need for further drilling for dirty fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas.  The film sheds light on the biggest concern that " the enormously powerful oil and gas industry has not only contaminated our water, air and land, but also our democracy".

Learn about current local impacts and action steps
Free and open to the public
For additional information, please call 914-422-3141

Wednesday, September 11th
7 pm
Wainwright House 260 Stuyvesant Avenue Rye, NY

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Catskill Mountainkeeper Barn Fest: Saturday June 22, Woodstock

Catskill Mountainkeeper Barn Fest

Woodstock's fifth annual summer celebration of food, culture, and the arts showcases some of the area's best features: music, theater, film, art, and food. The day-long festival on June 22, held at Woodstock's Andy Lee Field and adjoining Colony Café and Photosensualis, features special guests Chevy and Jayni Chase, who will be honored for their lifetime commitment to the environment, along with local honorees Happy Traum, rock `n' roll photographer Catherine Sebastian, and Hudson River Venture's Sean Eldridge. Food activist and keynote speaker Ben Hewitt, author of The Town That Food Saved, will discuss regionalized agriculture, and several films will be screened at Photosensualis followed by Q&As with the filmmakers. The barn fest also includes live music, kid's activities, an art auction, and a Hudson Valley food truck round up.

For more information please visit http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/ or call (845) 679-8423

Saturday, June 22
12-5pm
Andy Lee Field   Woodstock, NY 12498

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Film Screening: What are the Bees Telling Us?, Fri April 5th, South Salem

Environmental Film Series:
“Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?”

The Lewisboro Library's series of environmental themed films with discussions continues. "Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from Taggart Siegel. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.





Friday, April 5th
7PM
Lewisboro Library: 15 Main Street South Salem, NY 10590


There is a suggested donation of $5 per person, to fund viewing license fees.
Registration is required, RSVP the Lewisboro Library at 914-763-3857

Sponsored by:
the Lewisboro Sustainability Committee, the Lewisboro Library and Energize New York.

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Film Screening: Bag It, Fri, Feb 01, South Salem

Bag It has been garnering awards at film festivals across the nation. What started as a documentary about plastic bags evolved into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our bodies. Join the Bag It movement and decide for yourself how plastic your life will be. Followed by discussion. Sponsored by the Lewisboro Sustainability Committee, Lewisboro Library and Energize NY.

Friday, February 01, 2013
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Lewisboro Library, 15 Main Street, South Salem, NY, 10590

For more information visit the Lewisboro Library's website, please note that REGISTRATION is REQUIRED.  To register, call the Lewisboro Library at 914-763-3857



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Wednesday, April 6: Toxic Bust: film presentation and discussion. Wainright House, Rye.

TOXIC BUST
presented by

GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

WED, APRIL 6, 2011 @ 7:30 PM
WAINWRIGHT HOUSE
260 STUYVESANT AVE
RYE, NY 10580

ADMISSION FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This thought provoking documentary challenges viewers to question how abundant chemical use in the United States may undermine the health of its citizens.  The film focuses on three breast cancer "hot spots" to explore more fully the connection between cancer and chemical exposure in the home, workplace and community and features nationally recognized experts who provide understanding of the most current breast cancer science**

PATTI WOOD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
WILL LEAD A DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE FILM ABOUT PRACTICAL STEPS TO REDUCE EXPOSURES IN OUR HOMES, SCHOOLS, WORKPLACES AND COMMUNITIES


RSVP: 914-422-3141/ellen@grassrootsinfo.org

**Dr. Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist for Natural Resources Defense Council, has researched breast health and chemical impacts on breast milk.  Dr. Julia Brody is principal investigator for Silent Spring Institute's Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study.  Solomon and Brody talk about risk factors and environmental chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body and may raise the risk of cancer.  Additionally, Dr. Robert Harrison, an occupational health physician at UCSF and Dr. Philip Landrigan, former EPA scientist and Director of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, illuminate issues concerning worker health and the impacts of early childhood chemical exposure respectively

  Grassroots Environmental Education is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the links between common environmental exposures and human health and environmental impacts

For more information please visit www.grassrootsinfo.org


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Gasland Film Screening, Tuesday, Oct 5, Pleasantville

GASLAND

Jacob Burns Film Center

in Pleasantville, NY

Tuesday, October 5

7:15 pm ticket pick-up

Reception w/ refreshments

This Sundance award-winning documentary, depicting the dangers of extracting natural gas by horizontal hydrofracking, is sponsored by community, religious and environmental organizations,* the program will begin at 7:30 PM with a short reception with refreshments, followed by the screening of "Gasland."  Questions will be answered afterwards by Economist Dr. Jannette Barth; Nadia Steinzor of Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project; and a home owner who’s in the heart of fracking’s devastation in Pennsylvania. A post-screening reception will follow offering an opportunity for you to meet with our panelists in person and question several political candidates that are running this November.  This marks the first event in an educational program about horizontal hydrofracking.

Tickets:  $12

Reservations are needed (we're almost full!)

Call:  Susan at 769-6656 or esmesu @gmail .com

She will hold your ticket at the door

* Event sponsors:

Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition (CWCWC) in collaboration with Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP), BECZAK Environmental Education Center, Bedford Audubon Society, Concerned Residents of Carmel-Mahopac (CRCM), Federation of Conservationists of Westchester County (FCWC), Friends of the Great Swamp (FRoGS), GreenYorktown, League of Women Voters of Larchmont/Mamaroneck (LWV), Morgenthau Preserve, Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, Putnam County Coalition to Preserve Open Space, Religious Organizations Along River (ROAR), Rusticus Garden Club, Saw Mill River Audubon Society, Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group, Teatown Land Reservation, Trout Unlimited Croton Watershed Chapter, and Westchester Land Trust

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Under Our Skin, Film on Chronic Lyme Disease, Saturday, May 29th, Ridgefield, CT 7:30 pm

FILM SOCIETY: "Under Our Skin"
Saturday, May 29, 2010, 7:30 pm EST at  The Ridgefield Playhouse




Important: Q&A w/ Lyme Disease Experts:
Dr. Charles Ray Jones
Dr. Steven Phillips
Dr. Kenneth Liegner

and Lyme Disease Advocate: Rudy Marconi

TICKETS

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Film: Clearwater Nation, Tuesday, Nov 10, Kingston

Tuesday, Nov 10: 6pm.

Kingston Library, Free screening and discussion of a new documentary film, Clearwater Nation, by Pamela Timmins that features musical performances from Pete Seeger and looks at his forty year involvement with Clearwater. Timmins, an accomplished landscape painter, photographer, and video artist/filmmaker, will lead a Q&A following the showing of the film.

Botany of Desire DVD Contest Deadline, October 18th

From LocalHarvest.org

Once Upon a Time, I Was Obsessed with a Plant: a Contest

Here's what's up: a new movie based on Michael Pollan's best selling "The Botany of Desire" will be airing on PBS next month. For those who like to mark their calendars, it's Wednesday, October 28, from 8-10 p.m. Called an "eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world - seen from the plant's point of view," and narrated by Frances McDormand, this is sure to be good. For those who haven't read the book, the idea is that we think that we control the plant world. But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us?

We have a director-signed copy of the movie, so we are introducing a new contest giveaway playing with the theme of the book. To enter, send us your story of a time you were obsessed (or at least taken up with) with something in the plant kingdom – like, going to great lengths to protect your tomatoes from frost, watching and waiting for your seedlings to come up, praying for rain for your crops, or spending a summer growing flowers for your wedding. Anything. Submit your story by October 18, and we'll announce the winner of The Botany of Desire DVD in our next newsletter. Stories will be published on the LocalHarvest website.

To view the trailer and learn more about the film, visit PBS.org.

To submit your tips, click the title link above, or go here: http://www.localharvest.org/newsletter/20090924/botany-of-desire.jsp?r=nl

Fairfield County GreenDrinks, Thurs, Feb. 26th, 6-9pm

When: Thursday, February 26, 2009

Where: Earthplace, Westport Connecticut

What: A screening of Two Angry Moms, food, drinks, networking, fun

Cost: $20 at the door. Food, drinks and raffle prizes. Students and in-between jobs, $5.

To exhibit, contact Heather Burns-DeMelo info@ctgreenscene.com.

Friday Night at the Movies "King Corn", Feb 20th, 7-9pm

February 20, 2009, 7 pm – 9 pm
Friday Night at the Movies – “King Corn”
Hilltop Hanover Farm, 1271 Hanover Street, Yorktown Heights

Join us at the farm to watch “King Corn,” a documentary following two recently graduated college students as they grow an acre of corn and attempt to follow their product through the U.S. food supply. On the way they learn that corn is heavily subsidized and ends up in nearly every food product we eat. Doors open at 6 pm for those who wish to bring a picnic dinner, movie starts at 7pm. For more information, call 914-962-2368. 1271 Hanover Street, Yorktown Heights