Come see Elemental at the Princess tomorrow night!
Transition Kitchener-Waterloo
Greetings Transitioners,
Come see Elemental at the Princess this Wednesday night! Transitioners will be on hand for you to chat with, and after the movie, join us for a drink across the street at Jane Bond. Here's what Elemental is all about:
“Can a film be too beautiful? With its appreciative close-ups of bubbling, pearl-gray rivers and dramatic vistas of green-gray oil sands, the eco-doc Elemental is so stunningly shot it might well be. Fighting to eliminate these gorgeous toxin-scapes are the film's heroes—Rajendra Singh, Eriel Deranger, and Jay Harman—three activists with vastly different personalities and backgrounds striving to repair their local environs with the imperfect tools available to them.
“The soft-spoken but impatient Singh, a water activist, tries to convince his fellow citizens to protect the sacred Ganges River from excessive damming and human waste. The earnestly indignant Deranger, a Native Canadian, has taken up the even more quixotic mission of ending drilling in the Alberta tar sands, especially where it overlaps with indigenous lands. Harman, an Australian engineer, occasionally reduces himself to a stereotype of a flighty, first-world hippie, yet offers the most concrete solutions through his inventions, such as an appliance that converts urine into potable water.
“The insightful contrasts within the aggregate picture make the film a fascinating if limited portrait of the diversity of eco-warriordom today.” - Inkoo Kang, Village Voice
When: Wednesday, January 29, 7pm
Where: The Princess Original, 6 Princess Street West, Waterloo
More info: http://www.princesscinemas.com/movie/elemental
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Sylvie Spraakman
Facilitator, TransitionKW
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Community Notes
Oil Sands Karaoke playing at the Princess with Alternatives Journal: Follow along as five oil patch workers compete in a karaoke contest in Fort McMurray, the heart of Alberta's oil sands. Then sing away your post-screening blues: admission includes a free PBR tall can & line bypass at Chainsaw!
When: Thursday, February 6, 7pm
Where: Princess Cinema
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Green News Roundup
A Win For the Good Guys: When your lawyers bail on you, you know you’re in trouble. That’s what the lawyers for some climate change deniers just did. Why? The courts decided that if you if you accuse a scientist of scientific fraud and compare him to a serial child molester he can sue you for defamation. Gee, you think…
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/michael-mann-climategate-court-victory
There’s a Reason it’s Called “Dirty Oil”: The Conservative government and the oil industry roll out their spin machines and offer us “just trust us” promises. But, there’s no way to package tar sands oil so that transporting it doesn’t pose what should be considered an unacceptable risk. If it’s definitely harmful to produce and likely harmful to move, why not leave it where it is - in the ground.
Who’s Watching the Watchdogs?: The poor government. They’re determined to develop the Tar Sands, but they have to pay lip-service to the environment. So they appoint a bunch of guys (who don’t do it for free) to a panel who will say it’s all good. But, those pesky First Nation folks won’t play nice:
The Winter Olympics - Where You Gonna Go?: For winter sports it’s kind of important to have winter temperatures. Seems it’s getting tougher to find places to play.
On the Other Hand: So, if the globe is getting warmer, why so much snow?
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/global-warming-janus-snow