Please join us for a screening of "BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?" on Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00 pm in Unity Hall at the Congregational Church of Middlebury, 30 North Pleasant Street. Associate Producer Chris Hardee will be part of a discussion following the screening and light refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by Vermont Integrated Architecture, PC.

According to the website, BURNED "takes a hard look at the latest false solution to humanity's vast energy appetite: woody biomass. The film tells the story of how woody biomass has become the alternative-energy savior for the power-generation industry and of the people and parties who are both promoting and fighting its adoption and use. Using interviews with experts, activists, and citizens, along with verité-style footage shot across the US, EU and the UK, the film interweaves the science of climate change, the escalating energy-policy disputes, the dynamics of forest ecology, the industry practices, and the actions of activists and citizens who are working to protect their own health, their communities, the forest, and the planet's climate. Woven together, the various stories present an intimate and visceral account of what is at this moment in time a critical, yet somewhat unknown, national and international controversy."

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