Associated Students Sustainability

When:  Wed, October 13, 7pm – 10pm

Where:  CSU, Chico  Ayres 106, Across the street from Celestio’s (First and Salem)

Http://www.coalcountrythemovie.com/

COAL COUNTRY is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We hear from miners and coal company officials, who are concerned about jobs and the economy and believe they are acting responsibly in bringing power to the American people. Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side. Families have lived in the region for generations, and most have ancestors who worked in the mines. Everyone shares a deep love for the land, but MTR (Mountain Top Removal mining which has leveled over 500 Appalachian mountains) is tearing them apart. We need to understand the meaning behind promises of a cheap energy and “clean coal.” Are they achievable? At what cost? Are there alternatives to our energy future?

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC). Tonight’s film is co-hosted by the Sierra Club Yahi Group.

Price: free

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu http://www.aschico.com/earc

When Wed, October 6, 7pm – 9pm

Where CSU, Chico Campus  Holt 170, corner of Citrus and Mansion, behind Bidwell Mansion

Description Under Rich Earth is a story about ordinary people with extraordinary courage. In a remote mountain valley in Ecuador, coffee and sugarcane farmers face the dismal prospect of being forced off their land to make way for a mining project. Unprotected by the police and ignored by their government, they prepare to face down the invaders on their own. Their resistance ultimately leads to a remarkable and dangerous stand off between farmers and a band of armed paramilitaries deep in the cloud forest. In a world dominated by news of massacres and terrorism, Under Rich Earth is a surprising and poignant tale of hope and determination. http://underrichearth.ryecinema.com/ This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC).

Price: free

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu

When:  Wed, October 20, 7pm – 10pm

Where:   CSU, Chico Campus Holt 170, corner of Citrus and Mansion, behind Bidwell Mansion

Description:

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

http://www.kingcorn.net/

Price: free

Ages: All ages

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC).

Other films in this series:

Oct 27: FLOW (For the Love of Water)

Nov 3: Dive! (about dumpster diving for food waste in america)

Nov 10: Belonging

Nov 17: Botany of Desire

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu

When:  Wed, October 27, 7pm – 10pm

Where:   Csu, Chico Campus Holt 170, corner of Citrus and Mansion, behind Bidwell Mansion

Description:

Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.  This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC). Other films in this series: Nov 3: Dive! (about dumpster diving for food waste in america) Nov 10: Belonging Nov 17: Botany of Desire

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu

When:  Wed, October 13, 7pm – 10pm

Where:  Ayres 106, Across the street from Celestio’s (First and Salem)

Http://www.coalcountrythemovie.com/

COAL COUNTRY is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We hear from miners and coal company officials, who are concerned about jobs and the economy and believe they are acting responsibly in bringing power to the American people. Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side. Families have lived in the region for generations, and most have ancestors who worked in the mines. Everyone shares a deep love for the land, but MTR (Mountain Top Removal mining which has leveled over 500 Appalachian mountains) is tearing them apart. We need to understand the meaning behind promises of a cheap energy and “clean coal.” Are they achievable? At what cost? Are there alternatives to our energy future?

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC). Tonight’s film is co-hosted by the Sierra Club Yahi Group.

Price: free

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu http://www.aschico.com/earc