“What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world?”- is one of the main questions asked by the film “This Changes Everything” which will be shown at the Hardwick Town House on Sunday, April 24 at 1 PM.
The film was directed by journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis, and produced in conjunction with Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name, and filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, “This Changes Everything” is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Paul Fixx. The three panelists include:
Manuel F. O’Neill, Steve Gorelick and Steve Young.
Manuel and his wife, Myrna Miranda, have lived in Vermont since 1976 on their 23-acre hillside mini family farm in Woodbury, VT. Manuel’s Goddard MA degree in Social Ecology focused on US food and farm policy.
Steve Gorelick and his family live on a small off-the-grid homestead in Walden. He is on the board of the Buffalo Mountain Food Coop and the Hardwick Farmers’ Market, is on the steering committee of the Small Farm Guild and the Managing Programs Director of Local Futures, a non-profit organization that works internationally to promote a systemic shift away from economic globalization towards stronger local economies and communities.
Steve Young founded the Center for Northern Studies in 1971 part of the Northern Studies major at Middlebury College for many years before merging with Sterling College in Craftsbury. He is now serving as adviser to a new Center for Circumpolar Studies and is a widely respected botanist and anthropologist whose work spans the polar regions of the globe taking him to Alaska, Canada, Antarctica, Siberia, and Mongolia. He lives on 100 acres in Wolcott.
To find out more about the film and Naomi Klein go to http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/
Sponsored by the Friends of the Jeudevine & the Buffalo Mt Food Coop which is providing refreshments. The program is free and open to all. For more information call the library at 472-5948 or www.jeudevinememoriallibrary.org.
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