Spirit in the Desert's online climate theater continues with "Current Revolution"
Join facilitator Sheri Brown in viewing hopeful, encouraging, and soul-strengthening films, followed by group discussion and mutual support. Climate Theater meets online via Zoom on Thursdays, through August 24 (excluding July 6 & 13) at 4pm PDT/MST, 5pm MDT. Register here to receive a Zoom link.
CURRENT REVOLUTION
August 3: Part 1
Trailer to The Transformation Cannot Be Stopped
American Resilience Project’s new film series and associated outreach campaigns tackles the challenge of how the utility, auto, tech, and defense industries can help modernize the aging power grid to make it more secure and responsive to the needs of its users while enhancing environmental performance. With a focus on national security, economic prosperity, and environmental justice, the film shows how the nation can embrace smart policies and investments that support grid modernization through distributed renewable energy generation and the development of an electric vehicle infrastructure.
CURRENT REVOLUTION
August 10: Parts 2 and 3
Trailer to Nation in Transition
Nation in Transition explores the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona through the stories of workers, their families and communities, business and tribal leaders, utility executives, policy makers and environmental activists. The film offers a roadmap for accelerating and navigating just energy transitions for workers and communities everywhere.
Workforce Rising is a quick look at how rapid advancement of electric vehicles is disrupting numerous industries and workforces, and how the lack of charging infrastructure and grid capacity is lagging behind advances in automotive technology. The already-passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill provides the greatest opportunity to accelerate the transition, as long as the money is spent quickly and wisely.
Climate fatigue is real. We’re all worn out by the constant barrage of bad news. Climate anxiety is real. More than half of the population reports feeling somewhat-to-extremely anxious about global warming. Climate grief is real. Too many of us have turned that grief inward where it festers as despair.
Where are the voices of hope, of encouragement, of resilience?
They’re coming to you this summer! Following 12 weeks of her weekly series on climate awareness and education, facilitator Sheri Brown invites you to join her in viewing hopeful, encouraging, and soul-strengthening films, followed by group discussion and mutual support. Because none of us can deal with climate fatigue, anxiety, and grief alone. Well, Sheri can’t. And you shouldn’t have to.
Movies we'll watch and discuss this summer:
David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet
Kiss the Ground
The Ants & the Grasshopper
American Resilience Project's Current Revolution series
The Letter: A Message for Our Earth
See trailers for each exciting film here. We'll watch together ~ you can turn off your camera, munching your popcorn and Milk Duds offscreen if you like, then join the group on-camera for the discussion. Join us for one film, or for the entire summer series. This'll be fun!
Join the Spirit community this summer for an hour on Thursdays at 4:00 AZ (PDT) beginning June 8. Register here.
