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Upcoming events!

Today I got word of a few upcoming events in Colorado & Utah and wanted to share them with our blog readers!  There’s an event featuring Boyd Norton, member of the iLCP and longtime friend of WILD, the Boulder International Film Festival is coming up with a handful of great environmental flicks and WILD Board member Michael McBride will speak at the Zion Canyon Community Center.  If you’re in CO or UT — I highly recommend checking these events out!

February 4 – Boyd Norton will speak at the American Society of Media Photographers on “Conservation Photography: A Look at Some Global Environmental Hotspots” at the Denver Press Club starting at 6pm.  Boyd will give an overview of his documentation of certain areas worldwide that are facing important environmental issues. These areas include Antarctica, Borneo, Siberia, and Africa.  Read more >

February 10 – WILD Board member Michael McBride will speak at the Zion Canyon Community Center/Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council on his experience at WILD9, The Philosophy of Hope and Action and how each of us can take action to make a difference. 

February 11-14 – Boulder International Film Festival will feature a great selection of environmental and activists films at the Boulder Theater and several other locations around Boulder.  Here’s some highlights:

“Under Rich Earth,” the story of an Ecuadorian community that out-maneuvered paramilitary forces to stop a Canadian mining company from destroying their cloud forest home, co-presented by WILD’s friends Global Response/Cultural Survival. Global Response supported this community’s courageous efforts with an international letter-writing campaign. I hope you can join us to see “Under Rich Earth” on Friday, February 12, 10 am at Boulder Theater.

“A Time Comes” is the story of the Kingsnorth Six, a group of courageous Greenpeace volunteers who scaled the 750-foot chimney at a coal-fired power station in Kent to protest new coal plants across Britain. They were arrested and tried for causing criminal damage, but, in a decision that reverberated around the world, their defense of “lawful excuse” was accepted by the jury, which supported the right to take non-violent direct action to protect the climate from the burning of coal. Saturday, February 13, 7:00 p.m., The Church.

“Climate Refugees” – Filmmaker Michael Nash spent two years crossing the globe, investigating mass migrations of people looking for water and food in Africa, losing their homes to rising seawater in Bangladesh, visiting Orissa, India, where the coastal village of Kanhapura has vanished, and Tuvalu, a South Pacific island that is slowly sinking and where thousands of people will soon be displaced. Nash has discovered that many of the world’s intractable civil wars, instead being tribal or religious as they appear, are instead based on water rights and diminishing croplands. Nash is not a Cassandra, but a realist, and he discusses the security ramifications of massive human displacements with such diverse political leaders as John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. Sunday, February 14, 3:00 p.m., Boulder Theater.

“Split Estate“- Imagine discovering that, like 85 percent of property owners, you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas 200 feet from your front door. Thanks to deregulation left by the Bush administration, the oil and gas companies can do this without permission or compensation, even in urban areas. Exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act, the industry has left the Rocky Mountains pockmarked with abandoned homes and polluted waters. One Garfield County, Colorado, resident demonstrates benzene contamination in a mountain stream by setting it on fire with a match. Many others, gravely ill, fight for their health and for the health of their children. All the while, the industry assures us it is a “good neighbor.” Split Estate is a devastating documentary about an emerging environmental catastrophe. Friday, February 12, 5:00 p.m., Boulder Public Library.

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