Green Campus Initiative Fall Film Series
Documentaries will be presented in the Green Campus Initiative Fall Film Series on campus at Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg
All of this semester’s films will be presented at 7 p.m. in 218 Centennial Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Thursday, Oct. 10
Single Use Planet explores the extensive use of plastic that increases each year and has great environmental impacts such as a mammoth patch of Pacific Ocean that has miles of the floating waste. But plastic is also vital for uses in medicine and other applications.
“In search of why more and more single-use plastic debris enters the ocean despite all efforts to recycle, Single Use Planet goes upstream to where millions of tons of raw plastic are being made amidst the ruins of America's bygone steel industry in Pennsylvania,” say its film producers. “Further upstream, we see the economic and political realities that have boosted the new industry—realities reaching all the way to rural Louisiana where plans are laid to build the biggest plastic plant in the world.”
The film asks if “the powerful industry (can) be persuaded to temper their production of single-use plastic?” From Washington D.C. to other nations solutions are being sought.
Thursday, Nov. 7
Ecosphia means ecological wisdom as was first used by French philosopher Félix Guttari and ecologist Arne Naess. The film Ecosphia looks at the “interrelationship between energy, the economy, resources, population, psychology, spirituality, the biosphere, the limits to growth and climate change in an honest appraisal of our civilization and sustainability,” say its producers. If a simpler world is coming “what's needed is as much a spiritual revolution as a physical one,” they say.