Environmental Documentaries - SHU Sustainability: Tomorrow, 17-Feb, The 11th Environmental Documentary Series will show: Watson

Tomorrow, 17-Feb, The 11^th Environmental Documentary Series will show: Watson, 100:14 minutes: 

https://participant.com/2019/09/animal-planet-acquires-worldwide-tv-rights-documentary-watson 

About the film: Captain Watson and his crews have confronted whaling vessels from Europe to the Southern Ocean, seal hunters in Canada, and shark finners in Central America. WATSON blends revealing contemporary interviews with Captain Watson, archival clips of Sea Shepherd’s dramatic encounters, and spectacular underwater nature footage, as award-winning documentarian Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman”) paints a fascinating portrait of a man willing to put his own life at risk in a relentless quest to protect the oceans and the marine life within.

Attendees will have to provide themselves for the film which is available for $2.99 e.g. on Amazon, iTunes. We will connect at 6:30 PM via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83391076365?pwd=djZQa3hvQklncDlTdTdjbnBPdDcxdz09) and everybody will start the film soon after. After the film we will hold a discussion on Zoom.

Full schedule for this semester: Environmental Documentaries - SHU Sustainability

Tomorrow, 10-Feb, The 11th Environmental Documentary Series will show: Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

Tomorrow, 10-Feb, The 11^th Environmental Documentary Series will show: Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, 76:16 minutes: http://www.mossvilleproject.com/

About the film: Mossville, Louisiana: A once-thriving community founded by formerly enslaved and free people of color, and an economically flourishing safe haven for generations of African American families. Today it’s a breeding ground for petrochemical plants and their toxic black clouds.  Many residents are forced from their homes, and those that stay suffer from prolonged exposure to contamination and pollution. Amid this chaos and injustice stands one man who refuses to abandon his family’s land - and his community.

Attendees will have to provide themselves for the film which is available for $3.99 e.g. on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play. We will connect at 6:30 PM via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83391076365?pwd=djZQa3hvQklncDlTdTdjbnBPdDcxdz09) and everybody will start the film soon after. After the film we will hold a discussion on Zoom.

Full schedule: Environmental Documentaries - SHU Sustainability

Tomorrow, 3-Feb, The 11th Environmental Documentary Series will show: The Social Dilemma

Tomorrow, 3-Feb, The 11th Environmental Documentary Series will show: The Social Dilemma, 94:30 minutes: https://www.thesocialdilemma.com

About the film: Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our lives. The technology that connects us – Also manipulates us, Also polarizes us, Also distracts us, Also monetizes us, Also divides us, Also controls us.

Attendees will have to provide themselves for the film which is available on Netflix. We will connect at 6:30 PM via Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83391076365?pwd=djZQa3hvQklncDlTdTdjbnBPdDcxdz09 and everybody will start the film soon after. After the film we will hold a discussion on Zoom.

Full schedule: https://sustainability.sienaheights.edu/environmental-documentaries.html

Tomorrow, 27-Jan, The 11th Environmental Documentary Series will show: The Story of Plastic

 Tomorrow, 27-Jan, The 11^th Environmental Documentary Series will show: The Story of Plastic, 83:49 minutes: https://www.storyofplastic.org 

Attendees will have to provide themselves for the film but it is available for little money: Amazon $2.99 also on Apple TV, Xfinity video-on-demand. We will connect at 6:30 PM via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83391076365?pwd=djZQa3hvQklncDlTdTdjbnBPdDcxdz09) and everybody will start the film soon after. After the film we will hold a discussion on Zoom.

Environmental Documentaries - SHU Sustainability showing Entangled

20-Jan Entangled, runtime 75:07 Topics: Species extinction, oceans, policy

Vimeo free access link will be provided at 6:30 PM via Zoom

David Abel, filmmaker and Boston Globe reporter will attend the discussion

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/408553571

ENTANGLED is an award-winning, feature-length film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between the nation’s most valuable fishery, one of the world's most endangered species, and a federal agency mandated to protect both. The film chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the impacts of those efforts on the lobster industry, and how the National Marine Fisheries Service has struggled to balance the vying interests. Entangled, from the makers of Lobster War and Sacred Cod, won a 2020 Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films. It also won Best Conservation Film at the Mystic Film Festival.

Learn more at http://Entangled-Film.com 

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State issues consumption warning for Lake Superior smelt over PFAS contamination | Science & Environment | madison.com

Poison everywhere - and who pays for the cleanup? Hint: Not those who profited from it.

State issues consumption warning for Lake Superior smelt over PFAS contamination | Science & Environment | madison.com

Step up climate change adaptation or face serious human and economic damage – UN report

• Almost three-quarters of nations have some adaptation plans in place, but financing and implementation fall far short of what is needed
• Annual adaptation costs in developing countries are estimated at USD 70 billion. This figure is expected to reach USD 140-300 billion in 2030 and USD 280-500 billion in 2050.
• Nature-based solutions, critical for adaptation, need to receive more attention

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Nairobi, 14 January 2021 – As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds.

Adaptation – reducing countries’ and communities’ vulnerability to climate change by increasing their ability to absorb impacts – is a key pillar of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The agreement requires its signatories to implement adaptation measures through national plans, climate information systems, early warning, protective measures and investments in a green future.

The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020 finds that while nations have advanced in planning, huge gaps remain in finance for developing countries and bringing adaptation projects to the stage where they bring real protection against climate impacts such as droughts, floods and sea-level rise.

Public and private finance for adaptation must be stepped up urgently, along with faster implementation. Nature-based solutions – locally appropriate actions that address societal challenges, such as climate change, and provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits by protecting, sustainably managing and restoring natural or modified ecosystems – must also become a priority.

Continue reading at: Step up climate change adaptation or face serious human and economic damage – UN report