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EcoEagle Film & Lecture Series

The Office of Sustainability is working to bring the best films and speakers to campus to provide you with a great educational experience on various topics in Sustainability. Below is a list and synopsizes of the up and coming events.

OCTOBER

7th - EcoEagle Film Series, “A Crude Awakening,” PowerHouse Restaurant, 7 p.m.
“A Crude Awakening” tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. One year ago, in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, Robert L. Hirsch challenged the notion that the free market can solve the onrushing emergency: "The world has never faced a problem like Peak Oil. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary."

14th - EcoEagle Lecture Series, “Creation Care,” RC Cook Hall of Honors, 6 p.m. Lunch Provided
Colbey Sparkman will speak about the connection between Christian Theology and Environmental and social responsibility.

21nd - EcoEagle Lecture Series, “John de Graaf,” TCC Ballroom 11:30 a.m. –1 p.m.
De Graaf will present "Haste Makes Waste: The Connection between Time Pressure and Sustainability." The author of "Affluenza" and executive director of Take Back Your Time, de Graaf draws the connections between overwork and time pressure in America and our impact on the environment touching on the following themes: how longer working hours lead to bigger landfills; how shorter work time, a slower pace of life and more vacation time can improve our environment, our health, our families, our communities and even our productivity; environmental and other pros and cons of the four-day work week; government policy and the time/sustainability connections - the British "Blueprint for a Green Economy;" time and conscious choice through product labeling; the "simplicity" movement and the sustainable future.

NOVEMBER

11th - EcoEagle Film Series, “King Corn,” “Power House Restaurant, 7 p.m.
“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, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soild. 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.

JANUARY

27nd - EcoEagle Lecture Series, “The Climate Project,” TCC Ballroom 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Climate Project, a nonprofit organization based in Nashville, TN, began operations in June 2006 with the mission of increasing public awareness of the climate crisis at a grassroots level in the United States and abroad. By April 2007, a diverse group of 1,000 volunteers from throughout the U.S. had been trained by Al Gore himself to present a version of the slide show featured in the Academy Award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. As of September 2008, they had delivered nearly 20,000 presentations and reached a combined audience of 2 million people. In addition, TCP initiatives have resulted in the training of hundreds of equally committed individuals in Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK. TCP's 2,300 presenters have reached a worldwide audience of more than 4 million people.