Forces of Nature
FREE EVENTS
Jan 14 PUBLIC LECTURE: Katharine Hayhoe (p. 13) Science in a Fact-Free World 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Jan 27 FILM: This Changes Everything 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Related Event: Naomi Klein public lecture, Apr. 29
Jan 29 PUBLIC LECTURE: Kenneth Rosenberg
Three Billion Birds Lost: The Disappearance of North American Birds and What We Can Do About It 7:30 PM / SB Museum of Natural History, Fleischmann Auditorium Presented with the Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Feb 3 FILM: A Fierce Green Fire:
The Battle for a Living Planet
4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery*
Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, the film connects the major causes of environmentalism, from conservation to climate change, through vivid archival footage and interviews that shed light on the battle for a living planet.
Presented with the Santa Barbara Central Library
Feb 27 FILM: Jane
7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Drawing from more than 100 hours of never-before-seen footage from the National Geographic archives, this film tells the story of Jane Goodall, whose chimpanzee research challenged the male-dominated scientific consensus of her time and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.
Related Event: Dr. Jane Goodall public lecture, Mar. 31
Mar 10 FILM: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch 7:30 PM / UCSB Pollock Theater
The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group, who are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth. Includes post-screening Q&A.
Presented with the Carsey-Wolf Center in conjunction with UCSB Reads *Online registration recommended: www.Thematic-Learning.org
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