Earth Days - New Film About the History of the Modern Environmental Movement
Published 20 Aug 2009, 9:38 am -
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A new documentary by Robert Stone, traces the history of the modern environmental movement through the lives of nine pioneering Americans. Titled Earth Days, the film reaches as far back as the post-war America of the 1950s, the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal book Silent Spring, and the first ever Earth Day marked in 1970. With vintage footage and stunning visual panoramas, Earth Days follows the vision and fate of people like one-time Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, futurist Steward Brand, former Congressman Pete McCloskey, non-profit leader Hunter Lovins. It highlights the successes but also the failures of the movement. The New York Times reviewed Earth Days, calling it a “beautifully composed tribute to visionary thinking and political ingenuity, a timeline of peaks and valleys stretching from the early initiatives of the 1950s to the legislative successes of the ’70s.”
GUEST: Robert Stone, writer, producer, and director of Earth Days, film credits include Oswald’s Ghost, and Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Find out more at www.earthdaysmovie.com.
Earth Days opens August 21st in Southern California at the following venues:
Regal Westpark 8 in Irvine, Rancho Niguel in Laguna Niguel, Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, Laemmle Monica 4 in Santa Monica, Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, UC Santa Barbara (November 17th only), Hillcrest Cinemas in San Diego (starts September 11th).
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Bilmoryersestruecommision on 20 Aug 2009 at 11:40 am: 1
We didn’t wait around for the Senate to find Earth Day–we discovered it on our own!!!
Carless Since April '08 on 20 Aug 2009 at 3:10 pm: 2
I don’t think that people who choose to (and are able to) drop out of society and live in the wilderness should be dismissed.
The alternative that was suggested on this morning’s show was to make systemic changes in our society, but in my opinion, it’s “civilization” that’s the problem. It’s corrupt beyond repair. I’ve been to L.A. City Hall enough times to know that. As Ralph Nader recently said on Democracy Now (in regards to health care), “You do not cut deals with the system that has to be replaced.”
I’m aware of the problems that tend to come up in co-ops, but there’s a documentary called Commune available on DVD about an isolated commune in Northern
California that lasted quite a while (and as far as I know is still around).