Events at the Beacon Institute

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries | Sunday Author Series
Sun, July 31, 4 p.m.
Elizabeth “Perk” Stalter: Doodletown: Hiking Through History in a Vanished Hamlet on the HudsonShare a literary ramble through the vanished hamlet nestled in the mountains. Register online at www.bire.org/events. FREE.

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries | Forest Walk
Sat, Aug 13, 10 a.m.
Center for Environmental Innovation and Education
199 Dennings Ave, Beacon, NYBeacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries invites you to join forester Paul Blaszak on Saturday, August 13 at 10 a.m. for an informative morning of tree identification, and a discussion of the human impact on forest succession at Denning's Point in Beacon. Please register online for this FREE event by visiting www.bire.org/events.

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries | Film: “Liquid Assets”

Thurs, Aug 18, 7pm
Center for Environmental Innovation and Education
199 Dennings Ave, Beacon, NY

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries presents the documentary "Liquid Assets" on Thursday, August 18th at 7pm at the Center for Environmental Innovation and Education at Denning's Point. Exploring the history, engineering challenges, and political and economic realities in urban and rural locations, the documentary provides an understanding of the hidden assets - our ill-maintained underground water systems - that may present the single largest public works project in our national history. FREE. Please register online at www. bire.org/events.

"Bag It" comes to Dutchess County as part of Watershed Awareness Month

Date: Thursday, July 7^th

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Farm and Home Center, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook, NY

The Dutchess Watershed Coalition is hosting a screening of the new, award-winning environmental documentary Bag ItThursday, July 7^th at 7:00pm at the Farm and Home Center in Millbrook, NY as part of Dutchess Watershed Awareness Month.  This will be the first screening of the 2010 documentary hosted in Dutchess County and the surrounding area.

Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he tries to make sense of our dependence on plastic bags. Although his quest starts out small, Jeb soon learns that the problem extends past landfills to oceans, rivers and ultimately human health. The average American uses about 500 plastic bags each year, for about twelve minutes each. This single-use mentality has led to the formation of a floating island of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Texas. The film explores these issues and identifies how our daily reliance on plastic threatens not only waterways and marine life, but human health, too.

At the film screening, Girl Scout Troop 10205 from Hyde Park will be on hand to discuss their gift card recycling project and how the community can get involved.

Bag It is one of three films being shown on Thursdays throughout July as part of the Dutchess Watershed Awareness Month film series. Carbon Nation a documentary examining solutions to global climate change will be shown on July 14^th at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum Pavilion in Poughkeepsie. Gasland, a timely documentary on the surprising consequences of natural gas drilling, will be shown on July 21^st at the Lathrop Building at Lakeside Park in the Town of Pawling. All WAM film screenings are free, open to the public, begin at 7pm and will have light refreshments.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information about WAM or the film screening, contact Carolyn Klocker at 845-677-8223, ext. 135 orcak97@cornell.edu.

Two Screenings of "Gasland"

This documentary film by Josh Fox explores the disastrous environmental impacts he discovered while researching the effects of drilling for natural gas through the method known as hydraulic fracturing, or "hydrofracking", which has been proposed for many areas in New York State. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was a nominee for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. 

The Mid-Hudson Group Sierra Club will present the film, "Gasland",  at 7 pm on Wed., April 20, 2011, upstairs at the Hudson River Rowing Association boathouse, 270 N. Water St., Poughkeepsie.  A brief discussion and refreshments will follow the screening. (Directions can be found at http://www.hudsonriverrowing.org .)  Admission is free. For more information, call Group Chair Joanne Steele at 845-338-0300 or see the website: http://www.newyork.sierraclub.org/midhudson .

The film will also be shown by the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, April 27th at 7 pm, at the Unitarian Fellowship, 67 South Randolph Ave in Poughkeepsie. All welcome. Admission is free. For more information, email: office@uupok.org or call (845) 471-6580.

Screening of "Carbon Nation" at Bard College

Carbon Nation

A climate change solutions movie [that doesn't even care if you don't believe in climate change]

DATE: Monday, April 11th
Film: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema, Bard College
Watch the Trailer

"This is a truly inspiring film- documenting how going green can actually help or even save our economy. It showcases some innovators that will have you marveling at their creativity. You’ll wonder why government and industry isn’t championing their lead." – Shelli Sonestein, Q104- Clear Channel

"...the excellent documentary "Carbon Nation" is an inspiring look at the many recent advances in clean energy and green technologies." - Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"This is not just a film worth seeing, but it is one that is well worth sharing—as widely as possible."—Huffington Post
"The film gives good reasons for hope" - William Schlesinger, Onearth.org

Sponsors: Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Office of Sustainability, and Red Hook Educational Foundation.

Download: CarbonNationPoster.pdf
For more information: contact Molly Williams at 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cep/news/events.php#id113209.

Screening of "Tapped"

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water.

From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water.

Tapped

Sunday, Feb. 6th, 2:30 PM

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)

521 No. Broadway, Nyack

Suggested Donation: $10

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