Films+&+Discussion

=Popcorn, Documentaries and Discussion =

==These films provide information about climate change, sustainability, and alternative energy sources. View the films yourself or gather a group to watch and consider how each film relates to our theme of sustainability.==


 * You can pick up a film from the "Sustainability Cart" in the Upper Library Office. Please keep films for no more than one week at a time. New films will be posted as they arrive.**

Filmmaker Jeff Barrie looks at energy use in the southeast and takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida.
 * • //Kilowatt Ours// (two versions on disk: 35 and 60 min.)**

Host Cameron Diaz explores the ways energy touches our daily lives and shows alternative energy in use around the world.
 * • //Power Shift// (30 min.)**

A primer on climate change, the first half of this HBO special features interviews from leading scientists about the potential effects of global warming; the second half shows what businesses, local governments, and citizens can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
 * • //Too Hot Not to Handle// (60 min.)**

This 1993 video covers Yadkin River history and early efforts to preserve the river corridor.
 * • //The Yadkin: Its Origins, Its History, Its Future// (30 min.)**

This 2002 video focuses on the Yadkin River as a significant source of drinking water for many counties; the harmful effects of sedimentation and erosion; and how we can protect the river.
 * • //The Yadkin River and You// (30 min.)**

Point/Countpoint? The first title is a humorous, but provocative PBS documentary about all we have, what we do with it, and how it makes us feel, and in the second, ABC's John Stossel presents a libertarian's view that greed is "one of the most important engines of human advancement and prosperity."
 * • //Affluenza// (60 min.) and //Greed// (50 min.)**

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