Free October Film Screening & Discussion
Carbon Nation is a documentary movie about climate change solutions. Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don’t buy it at all, this is still a compelling and relevant film that illustrates how solutions to climate change also address other social, economic and national security issues. You’ll meet a host of entertaining and endearing characters along the way.
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary that illustrates why it’s incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it’s good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment. Through a cast of engaging and endearing characters from across the country, in towns big and small, Carbon Nation introduces us to the new wave of American ingenuity. From one-armed Texas cotton farmer Cliff Etheridge, who is banding together small farmers’ land to create one enormous wind farm, to green jobs innovator Van Jones, who is bringing clean technology and jobs to inner cities, it’s clear that the creative solutions needed to combat climate change are already being created by entrepreneurs, visionaries, scientists, and the everyday man. By bringing their innovations to light, Carbon Nation is a film that celebrates solutions and inspires action.
TIME: 6:30pm – 9:30pm – Wednesday, October 24th
LOCATION: Rice Media Center, Rice University
(Located corner of University Blvd and Stockton, entrance #8 Rice University)
SCHEDULE:
• 6:30 – Meet and Greet
• 7:00 – Film Screening
• 8:30 – Live Skype interview with the Director Peter Byck after the film.
CO-SPONSORED BY:
Rice University Environmental Club, Houston Tomorrow, Emerging Professionals of the Houston USGBC, Houston Green Scene, and Transition Houston.
Light dinner kindly donated by Dr. Pat Speck and Dry Bones Cafe.
A $5 donation is suggested and greatly appreciated.
RSVP on their Facebook event page