Green Campus Film Series Double Feature

CU-Bloomsburg's Green Campus Spring Film Series will offer screenings of new environmental films.

All will be screened in 218 Centennial Hall on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 10 (double feature)

Coral Gardeners: In the Maldives coral reefs are being damaged by climate change, leading to warming seawater and acidification, in the same ways coral reefs are being harmed globally. The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that if they are not rescued now 90 percent of them will disappear by 2050. But in the Maldives the island nation depends on the reefs for protection from the open ocean, for food and the businesses that revolve around them. Finding ways to regrow them throughout the chain of 1,200 islands is essential.

Entangled: Efforts over past decades to restrict or ban whaling have been successful in helping whale populations recover from near extinction. But right whales' numbers have dwindled today to about 350 individuals. A federal mandate has propelled the National Marine Fisheries Service into a balancing act. They must protect the whales from the massive numbers of lobster lines that entangle them while protecting, promoting, and regulating the lobster fishery.

Thursday, April 24

Becoming Animal: Becoming Animal's filmmakers challenge viewers to explore our relationships to the "more than human" world and "recognize it for what it is: an exquisitely intricate system in which everything is alive and expressive; humans, animals and landscapes are inextricably interdependent, and there is no such thing as empty space." The film was shot in and around Grand Teton National Park and features its beauty as well as "diversity of wildlife, trails of curious humans in RVs and billion-year-old geology.

The film shares a focus on animals with the Earth Day celebration on the quad, "Wild About Earth Day," on Tuesday, April 22.