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Wednesday February 24, 2010
Start: Feb 24 2010 7:00 pm
Come join us at our next Transition Sebastopol Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant. Come early and enjoy dinner and conversation.
Wednesday, February 24
7:00 - 9:00pm
free event, donations appreciated to cover screening costs.
The Age of Stupid: Trailers: USA Trailer from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
The Age of Stupid Synopsis
‘The Age Of Stupid’ is the new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon). Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we’ve achieved. He pulls together clips of “archive” news and documentary from 1950->2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focusses on six human stories:
- Alvin Duvernay, is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the first “major climate change events”. - Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and gets a million Indians flying.
- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds. - Jamila Bayyoud, aged 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of Jordan after her home was destroyed - and father killed - during the US-led invasion of 2003. She’s trying to help her elder brother make it across the border to safety. - Piers Guy is a windfarm developer from Cornwall fighting the NIMBYs of Middle England. - 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand Pareau has witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 metres.
Running Time: 85 minutes
Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/
Transition Sebastopol’s movie night is always the last Wednesday of the month.
Monday March 22, 2010
Start: Mar 22 2010 6:30 pm
The Energy group is having its firstgathering Monday March, 22nd, 6:30 @ Laguna Farm.
Goals for the group and a mission statement will be discussed.
For questions contact: Scott Mathieson at scott@lagunafarm.com
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Start: Mar 24 2010 7:00 pm
Help us organize the 350 Garden Challenge!!
Transition Sebastopol is hosting an organizing meeting for the 350 Garden Challenge on Wednesday March 24th at 7pm. The 350 Garden Challenge's goal is to create (or expand) 350 waterwise food gardens in Sonoma County on the weekend of May 15-16.
Every community in the county will be organizing their area and Transition Sebastopol is taking on the West County. We hope to bring together local food, water conservation, and community and tie it into the 350 movement to cut greenhouse emissions. We need help in doing outreach and publicity, organizing a couple model, higher profile gardens and coordinating logistics and volunteers.
Thursday March 25, 2010
Start: Mar 25 2010 6:30 pm
End: Mar 25 2010 7:15 pm
Every Thursday
6:30-7:15
optional potluck afterward
Dhyana Center
7740 Atkinson Rd.
Sebastopol
For more information contact: karmendraji@yahoo.com
Meditation is a resource for inner strength and resilience to enable us to respond wisely to challenges in our lives. This non-sectarian, unguided, collective meditation will draw on the insights and inspiration from various spiritual traditions to support personal meditation practice.
Start: Mar 25 2010 6:30 pm
The Transition Sebastopol Elder Salon will be meeting on March 25th and every last Thursday of the month.
Location:
Sequoia Village
459 Sequoia Lane
(located across the street south from Pacific Market, and before Pleasant Hill)
~ Please park on the street ~
Read more about the Elder Salon here.
For questions contact Alexandra Hart at ahart@sonic.net.
