[SustainableTompkins] Sustainable Tompkins Monthly Gathering for September

[Marian Brown]

The first Sustainable Tompkins monthly gathering of the Fall 2007 season 
will feature a screening of the film "Green is the New Red, White and 
Blue" featuring Thomas Friedman, award-winning columnist for the New 
York Times.

This special event will begin with a potluck dessert at 6:30pm with a 
brief opportunity for attendees to share what we're up to. The film 
screening - complete with local, organic popcorn and local butter and 
salt to taste - will begin at 6:45pm. The film runs about 90 minutes.

The location for this special film screening event, which is free and 
open to the public, will be the Center for Natural Sciences at Ithaca 
College, Room 112. (This is a theatre-style auditorium).

Parking for this event is free on campus, in "O" lot behind the Park 
School of Communications. Or you can take TCAT Route 11/12 to campus, 
which drops off behind the Park School.

For a campus map: http://www.ithaca.edu/map/
Center for Natural Sciences is building 23 on the map.

For a little taste of Friedman's message, read:
Green: the new Red, White and Blue from January, 6, 2006
http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/news/news_detail.cfm?id=48

Film synopsis: In this 2007 series (first broadcast on public 
television), New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman looks at 
various "green" technologies--hydroelectric, solar, wind, and nuclear 
power, hybrid, electric, and hydrogen-fuel-cell cars, clean-coal, 
bio-fuels, and energy-conservation methods--being adopted by American 
businesses and families today, to reduce the output of the greenhouse 
gas carbon dioxide and ultimately to reduce global warming and ensure 
political stability throughout the world.

Hope to see you all there!