HERE'S THE PLAN. We will meet at 6:00 PM at the SALT LAKE ROASTING COMPANY CAFE IN the Library's Urban Room (the atrium entrance) before the Movie, which begins at 7:00 PM. There is parking beneath the library and TRAX has a drop off at the library.
The SLRCompany cafe is located on the east end of the Urban Room. Here's a picture
I couldn't wait, so I previewed the movie last Friday at the District Megaplex. It's an amazing compilation of years of work with breathtaking photography.
The Screening will be followed by a Q+A with director Jeff Orlowski, moderated by Doug Fabrizio, host of KUER’s RadioWest.*
Here's a trailer for this Sundance Film Festival, 2011 award winning show:
AMAZING TESTIMONY FROM AN O'REILLY DEVOTEE. This is a great article about Chasing Ice
The new documentary "Chasing Ice" is life changing. The following video was included in the Alternet article.
Listen to this Bill O'Reilly devotee's reaction after seeing the movie. She is literally heart broken to learn of earth's dire circumstances. Psst Bill, you just lost a viewer/climate change denier:
Through the Lens: CHASING ICE
Event: Through the Lens: CHASING ICE
Start: December 5, 2012 7:00 PM
Cost:Free
Venue: The City Library
Address: 210 E. 400 S., Salt Lake City, UT, 84111
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
75 min. | 2011 | USA
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
In this breathtakingly beautiful documentary, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski follows the indomitable photographer as he brings to life the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)—a massive photography project that placed 30 cameras across three continents to gather visual evidence of the Earth’s melting ice. Chasing Ice tells the story of a visionary artist who, in facing his own mortality, bequeaths the magic of photography and the adventure of the expedition to a new generation and captures the most visible sign of climate change on the planet today.
- Sundance Film Festival 2012 Film Guide
UDOT Trax goes right to the Library. See
Map here.
The website says TRAX runs until 11:30 PM.
You can call 1-888-RIDE-UTA if you need further information.
TRAX fares can be found here.
I will definitely be attending and shopping this week for an orange scarf.
* The library hours are listed as:
Phone: (801) 524-8200
Hours:
Mon-Thu 9am–9pm**
Fri-Sat 9am–6pm
Sun 1–5pm
So I wonder if the Q+A session will run later? And, if so, what does that means for those using the parking guarage.
Here's a phone number for the Salt Lake City Library if you have any questions - (801) 524-8200
See you there!
Without knowledge and an example, I think too may are dismayed about converting from 19th century energy to 21st century energy sources. Even the President and Congress seem stuck in the claws of the antique energy moguls.
I find this snippet from the article cited above to be full of hope. Perhaps we can follow Germany's model, town by town, city by city, state by state. Sadly, as we try, America's water sources are being drained and polluted by this decades energy fix de jour: Fracking
In an interview last week with Osha Gray Davidson, author of Clean Break, Davidson chronicles how Germany went from 6 percent renewable energy in their country’s portfolio in 2000 to 26 percent today (and they’re headed to 80 percent by 2050). The key, he learned while traveling around the country, was citizens breaking free from large energy corporations that refused to change and igniting a clean energy revolution that went from the grassroots to the halls of power. In the process, they made everyone in Germany able to participate in the financial rewards of switching from dirty to clean energy.
Hope to see you at the movies. How will we know each other? Well, after the movie perhaps I can post a diary and we can share our experience here.
