CU-Bloomsburg Green Campus Initiative to Screen Documentaries

Three documentaries will be presented in the Green Campus Initiative Fall Film Series at Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg

All of the 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” examines our complex relationship with oil and petroleum products. President George W. Bush said in his 2006 State of the 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, and pension fund managers and considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed, its filmmakers say. The documentary also looks at the drama of global climate action, using North Sea oil exploration as an example.

Thursday, Oct. 10

“Single Use Planet” explores the extensive use of plastic that increases yearly and has great environmental impacts, such as a mammoth Pacific Ocean patch containing miles of floating waste. But plastic is also vital for uses in medicine and other applications.

“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. “We see the economic and political realities that have boosted the new industry—realities reaching to rural Louisiana, where plans are laid to build the biggest plastic plant in the world.”

Thursday, Nov. 7

The term “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.