The opening weekend for the film, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, begins in the Dallas area and nationwide Aug, 3 and runs several days. Local activists will be attending a screening on Sunday, Aug. 6, including some of the 350Dallas team and climate activists.
Please attend and bring friends and family, and help promote attendance through your email lists and social media.
The directors of the film, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, will conduct a Q&A following the film. RSVP to AHess@levensongroup.com by NOON on Thursday, Aug. 3 for free entry.
CCL will be screening the movie Facing the Surge as well as engaging the political process on social media.
Info: brett.cease@citizensclimatelobby.org
The Root and Branch Revue, Downwinders at Risk’s multi-day floating conference for green activists, is scheduled for Jan. 24-28 and includes the first trip to Texas of two of the Flint, Michigan women who blew the top off that town’s lead-contaminated drinking water scandal.
Jan. 24, 7-9 pm: Film Screening & Discussion "When is Civil Disobedience Effective?" Angelika Theater at @ Mockingbird Station, 5321 E Mockingbird, Dallas. Free.
Step away from holiday shopping and step Into nature
Arrive at 5:30 p.m. and get immersed in nature on a hike at dusk. Pack an indoor picnic dinner and munch away while we watch a holiday movie together.
RSVP by calling 817-491-6333 or emailing admin@bjnc.org. $5/family.
For its Forth and Final edition, the Internet Cat Video Festival 2015 screened at the Great Minnesota Get-Together: the State Fair Grandstand. The showcase of feline hijinks included new videos, appearances by special guests and celebricats. A portion of the prcceeds will go to Operation Kindness No-Kill Animal Shelter. #DFWcatvidfest
World's largest eco-fest featuring hundreds of green organizations and businesses, speakers, films, food and kid's activities. Free.
See Jumbo Wild to learn about the controversy surrounding the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort that would span four glaciers and 15,000 acres in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia.
Learn about Trinity Environmental Academy, Dallas' first environmentally focused public-charter/private college partnership on the Paul Quinn College campus.
DIRECTIONS: http://www.dallassierraclub.org/page.htm?generalmeeting
Info: Kirk Miller, 972-699-1687 or KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org
In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?