[SustainableTompkins] An Inconvenient Truth this Friday

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, the successful and controversial film  by  about
global warming, will be shown Friday, October 6th at 7:00 pm  in St. Paul's
United Methodist Church at the corner of Aurora and Court  Streets in Ithaca.

The event is free and open to the public.

For  more information about the film, see www.climatecrisis.net  After  the
screening, a panel of scientists and alternative energy specialists  will
discuss the film. Speakers will include local residents who have  installed
solar electric generation systems, geothermal heating and cooling,  and
windmill power generation.

Critical reaction to the film has been  extremely positive in both left and
right media. At the 2006 Sundance Film  Festival, the movie received a
three-time standing ovation. It was the most  popular Documentary at the 2006
Brisbane International Film Festival, and it  has grossed over $23 million as
of September 6, 2006, making it the  third-highest-grossing documentary in
the U.S. to date. Film critics Roger  Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film
"two thumbs up". Ebert wrote: "In 39  years, I have never written these words
in a movie review, but here they are:  You owe it to yourself to see this
film. If you do not, and you have  grandchildren, you should explain to them
why you decided not  to."

Event organizers explained that there is a growing sense of  responsibility
in faith-based communities to actively tackle the global  warming issue -- a
crisis that is creating social, environmental, and  financial threats that
demand attention from any organization that is driven  by core values of
morality and stewardship.

According to David Remnick  in The New Yorker magazine, "An Inconvenient
Truth" is a brilliantly lucid,  often riveting attempt to warn Americans off
our hellbent path to global  suicide. "An Inconvenient Truth" is not the most
entertaining film of the  year. But it might be the most important."

The free public screening of  Al Gore's film was arranged through New York
Interfaith Power and Light and a  national network of congregations and
faith-based organizations that promote  stewardship of the earth through
energy conservation, energy efficiency and  the use of renewable energy. The
book An Inconvenient Truth and related  publications will be available onsite
from The Bookery. Information will be  available on how to purchase
wind-generated power as part of the normal  electric service provided by
NYSEG.




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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY  14850
agn1 at cornell.edu