23rd Annual International Festival - “Protecting the Earth and Our Future”
Friday, April 6
International Career Opportunities Promoting the Environment10 - 11 a.m., Bonnell Building, Small Auditorium, BG-11
Think green in your job…and think the Career Services Center as a resource. Come learn how to search for an international position focused on sustaining environmental resources including:
- volunteer to do research on reptiles and amphibians in the Rainforest or on a Sea Turtle Conservation in Costa Rica
- intern for a London firm, P3Capital, whose products and services create social and environmental value
- and many more!
Student Research Presentations on Japan
1:15 p.m., Bonnell Building, Small Auditorium, BG-11
*Hosted by Professor David Prejsnar
Film: “An Inconvenient Truth” (100 min., 2006)
Film Showing and Discussion
2:30 p.m., Bonnell Building, Small Auditorium, BG-11
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer
heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, reset the course of his life to focus on a last ditch, all- out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change.
In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems
we may be reaching a tipping point and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective, to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most
important cause of his life convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smarts and hope, “An Inconvenient Truth” ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.
-from www.climatecrisis.net