Green Film Series at the Ferndale Public Library April 11, 2011

Monday Movies Continue! This month: Green Films

Free admission, popcorn and beverages.

April 11 @ 7:30 PM - Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009) - 105 minutes. Not Rated
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon. Winner of many film festival awards for Best Documentary.

April 18 @ 7:30 PM - DIRTY BUSINESS: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future (2009) - 90 minutes. Not rated
Documentary produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting that investigates the true cost of our dependence on coal for electricity in the age of climate change. Presented by the Ferndale Environmental Sustainability Commission.
http://dirtybusinessthefilm.com/about-the-film

April 25 @ 7:30 PM - Soylent Green (1973) - 97 minutes. Rated PG
It is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. A tough homicide detective stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.