As the Kyoto Accord comes into effect, a great documentary about how the West's high-energy lifestyle is coming to roost is finally hitting the airwaves.
Mark your calendars, set your VCRs, prepare to TiVO. The broadcast premiere of Gregory Greene's The End Of Suburbia is coming to Canadian broadcaster VisionTV on March 9th, 2005.
It's the flipside of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11: the scientific, social, economic and political background to why we're in the Middle East now -- and the implications of oil depletion for our low-density, high-energy civilization.
The film has played at several festivals, and in a grassroots education effort, has been available on DVD for some time now, with buyers encouraged to hold screenings for the public. For more information, check out the official website.
Take the Peak Oil Poll and learn more on the film after the jump.
The documentary features interviews with Post Carbon Institute founder Julian Darley, journalist Michael Ruppert, energy investment banker and White House advisor Matthew Simmons, political scientist and author Michael Klare, New Urbanist architect Peter Calthorpe, sustainable-ecology educator Richard Heinberg, commentator and gadfly James Howard Kunstler, petroleum geologists and leading Peak Oil theorists Colin Campbell and Kenneth Deffeyes, Iranian senior oil expert Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, and NREL researcher Steve Andrews
Gregory Greene is a Toronto-based filmmaker with a background in social and political documentaries. His television credits include BRAVO!'s acclaimed arts series Arts & Minds, MuchMusic's documentary series Musicians in the War Zone and more recently Suhail's Jihad. He is working on a sequel, Escape From Suburbia.
www.endofsuburbia.com
VisionTV (http://www.visiontv.ca/)
Of related note: Kunstler's new and yes, optimistic book about life in a post-oil world, The Long Emergency, is available for pre-order through Amazon.com.