Sunday, January 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the Trumansburg Fire Hall
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.-- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Run time: 72 minutes.
Green Fire (2011) was produced in partnership between the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Center for Humans and Nature, and the US Forest Service.
This documentary focuses on the life and philosophy of the legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold. His son, Carl, was the founding president of the Finger Lakes Land Trust, based in Ithaca, NY. The film will be personally introduced at our showing by Lynn Leopold, Carl’s widow and Aldo's daughter-in-law. Ms. Leopold will also facilitate a community discussion after the film.
Green Fire explores the life of this early environmentalist, and describes the ways his land ethic philosophy endures in the people and organizations he inspired. His pioneering ideas about protecting and restoring wildernesses, watersheds and wildlife have influenced the stewardship of public and private lands around the world.
Back to Democracy believes that everyone can benefit from studying Leopold's land ethic. It provides a view of the relationship between humans and nature that contrasts with the capitalist view of nature as a commodity. It is especially important in these problematic times of extreme fossil fuel extraction, with industrial-scale gas drilling threatening our beautiful Finger Lakes region.
Sunday, January 29, 4:00 to 8 p.m.
Benefit to Support Local Frack Bans
The Rongovian Embassy (The Rongo) Trumansburg
It's a FUND RAISER!
- $20 donation for raffle ticket
- TEN raffle prizes of excellent, regional wines ranging from a case, to packs of 2, 3 or 4!
- All donations go to the Town of Ulysses fund for legal costs to fight fracking
It's a FUN RAISER, Too!
- Music by the Yaardvarks & Funky Frack-Free Radicals (Harry Aceto & Friends);
- Speakers
- Appetizers from the Rongo kitchen,
- Cash bar
- No cover charge
In September 2011, the Colorado-based oil & gas firm Anschutz Exploration Corporation, which owns numerous leases in Dryden, NY, sued the Town, claiming that New York municipalities are prempted from doing anything to prevent fracking in their communities. The case is pending, but whoever loses it will appeal, and it probably won't be resolved for at least a year. Since that decision will impact all NY towns, the Town of Ulysses is leading a coalition of municipalities to provide additional legal defense to the case. They've agreed to participate in an Amicus ("friend of the court") Brief. This legal action supports the notion that NY towns have the right under "Home Rule" laws to regulate land use, and CAN indeed ban fracking and other heavy industrial activities by enforcing local zoning laws.
EVENT ORGANIZERS:
Coalition volunteers of Concerned Citizens of Ulysses and Back To Democracy: Judy Abrams, Michelle Bamberger, Michael Dineen, Anne Furman, Robert Oswald, Jane Penrose, Jan Quarles, Ken Zeserson.
EMAIL CONTACT: ccu.ulysses@gmail.com
DONATE:
If you can't attend, but would like to support the right of NY towns to ban fracking, please send a check payable to "Town of Ulysses," noting "CCU" in the check memo. The mailing address is: Town of Ulysses, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg, NY, 14886. All donations will be much appreciated.
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Climate Change Denial: The Corporate System for Spreading the Lie
This diagram is from The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society By John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg
See this article in the NYT.