[SustainableTompkins] An Inconvenient Truth this Friday

[Cnielsen56 at aol.com]

It will ALSO be shown at the First Unitarian Church Sunday, October 8 and  
again Friday, October 27. Both days at 6:30 PM.  FREE. The church is at the  
corner of Buffalo and Aurora Streets.
 
Christian Nielsen-Palacios
 
In a message dated 10/3/2006 11:17:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
GayNicholson at aol.com writes:



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. 

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607-279-6618   (cell)

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gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program   Coordinator 
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Southern Tier Energy$mart  Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of  Tompkins County
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agn1 at cornell.edu

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