Friday Film Series (free) in Palo Alto

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Free film series: " Films of Visions and Hope- How to Live More Sustainably by

Building Community " , (Friday nights February 19 - March 19). Silicon Valley

Action Network (formerly Silicon Valley For Obama) is partnering with Acterra,

Transition Palo Alto and Transition Silicon Valley to sponsor this event. The

series will culminate in an open forum to engage community members in discussing

how communities can take steps toward sustainable solutions.

 

Time:

Every Friday 2/19/2010 - 3/19/2010, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Address:

3921 E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto, CA

 

Concerned about the environment and climate change?

Looking for ways to make a positive, sustainable change for people and the

planet?

Join us for a Friday evening film series<http://svanetwork.org/winterfilms> that

focuses on hopeful and positive solutions to problems affecting our world.

Place: Acterra

3921 E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto

Map and Directions<http://www.acterra.org/aboutus/map_directions.html>

No charge for this event. Please RSVP using the buttons below, to help us plan

programs and keep you informed of changes!

 

 

Feb 19: The Power of Community

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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin.

With imports of oil cut by more than half — and food by 80 percent — people

were desperate.

 

This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and

creativity of the Cuban people. They share how they transitioned from highly

mechanized agriculture to using organic farming and urban gardens.

It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis. The

film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time when world oil

production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the

only country that has faced such a crisis, is an example of options and hope.

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Feb 26: The Yes Men

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The Yes Men follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they

impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences

around the world.

 

 

The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with

GWBush.com<http://gwbush.com/>, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO’s

website.

Mike and Andy soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO

representatives. Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and

Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with

darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don't notice the

joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with.

Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new

approach for one final lecture.

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March 5: What’s the Economy For, Anyway?

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Ecological economist Dave Batker gives us a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and

highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways

we measure economic success–especially the Gross Domestic Product–and

offering an answer to the question: What’s the Economy For, Anyway?

 

Using Gifford Pinchot’s idea that the economy’s purpose is “the greatest

good for the greatest number over the longest run,†Batker compares the

performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms

of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability,

concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly

every category.

 

 

Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as “productivity,â€

and “consumer sovereignty,†while offering ideas for “capitalism with a

human face,†a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and

the planet.

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March 12: In Transition

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/transitionculture.org/in-transition/>

 

'In Transition' is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed

by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground.

 

The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak

oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting

about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive,

solutions focused, viral and fun.

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March 19: Follow-up

 

(World Cafe or Open Space)

 

 

Sponsors:

 

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http://transitionsiliconvalley.org/>

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http://transitionpaloalto.org/>

 

Links:

http://www.acterra.org/

http://transitionpaloalto.org/

http://transitionsiliconvalley.org/

 

Reference:

http://svanetwork.org/winterfilms