Green Campus Initiative Fall Film Series
Three documentaries will be presented in the Green Campus Initiative Fall Film Series on campus at CU - 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, Sept. 26
The Oil Machine looks at the complex relationship we have with oil and petroleum products. It explores the often-contradicting viewpoints and actions surrounding them. Even George W. Bush said in his 2006 State if Union speech that alternative energy sources are needed and said, “America is addicted to oil.”
“The Oil Machine brings together a wide range of voices from oil company executives, economists, young activists, pension fund managers and considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed,” its filmmakers say.
“We have five to ten years to control our oil addiction, and yet the licensing of new oil fields continues in direct contradiction with the Paris Climate Agreement. This documentary looks at how the drama of global climate action is playing out,” using North Sea oil exploration as an example, according to filmmakers.
It’s especially timely as the U.S. is now producing more oil than any time in history under the Joe Biden administration, and more than any other nation. Yet the Donald Trump campaign is complaining that it isn’t enough with the slogan, “Drill, baby drill.”
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.