Education
Films
Movie Offerings From GWIPL's Leading Library
• Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars
"Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars" is a 34 minute documentary film that follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air, healthy children and affordable energy. It introduces unlikely partners -- mayors, ranchers, faith groups, CEOs, legislators, and citizens. They joined together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants.
Host a screening in your congregation to raise awareness, inspire action, and create meaningful dialogue about how to overcome one of the greatest threats to public health and contributors to global warming -- conventional coal-fired power plants -- and how to find the cleanest, safest solutions to our global energy challenge. The film is available for screening in your congregation at no cost. To sign up to host a screening and resources for your showing, contact Allison.
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Renewal: This film features eight different stories about what different faith communities are doing to protect creation. This film can be shown as a 90 minute feature documentary or in segments for an education class. Allison recommends that you show the follwing four segemnts for an adult education class:
| A Crime Against Creation |
Evangelicals bear wittness to mountain top removal |
| Food for Faith |
Eco-Hallal |
| Ancient Roots |
On the Teva Learning Center and Jewish experiental environmental education. |
| Eco-Justice |
Environmental justice and racism regarding post-Hurricane Katrina industrial contamination. |
For more on the film go to RenewalProject.net.
To order the film at a 50% discount, go to http://renewalproject.net.s17607.gridserver.com/ and enter coupon code: IPLIV0608. The offer expires on 9/30/08. Or contact Allison to borrow a copy.
• An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s Academy Award winning documentary about the climate crisis.
• Too Hot Not To Handle: This cautionary documentary offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States.
• The Great Warming: This documentary examines evidence that human activities are provoking an unprecedented era of atmospheric warming and climatic events.
• Kilowatt Ours: A documentary film that invites viewers to help build a net zero nation, by conserving energy to the greatest extent possible at home, then using clean renewable energy to provide the electricity used.
• We Are All Smith Islanders: CCAN’s documentary film demonstrates how global warming is changing the Chesapeake Bay region, using the waning livelihoods of Smith Island watermen as its main example.
• Fighting Global Warming One House At a Time: CCAN’s documentary about the story of Maryland's first 90% renewable energy home. It explains how one Takoma Park family is fighting global warming on a budget, and how you can do it too.
• From Global Warming to God’s Peace: Mike Tidwell, CCAN’s director, delivers a lecture about global warming from a faith perspective.
You can arrange for Allison Fisher or another GWIPL speaker to come to your congregation to present the video, lead a discussion, and help engage your congregation on energy concerns.
God's Creation and Global Warming
God's Creation and Global Warming was originally produced for use by the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working Group and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life for their ongoing interfaith work combating global warming. This important video describes God’s call to be stewards of creation, the threat of global warming and why this issue is so important to many people of faith. It is a great 12 minutes introduction to this issue for people of faith.
A variety of study guides from different faith traditions have been produced to accompany this video. Copies of God’s Creation and Global Warming can be ordered from Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light for $5, by calling 202-885-8684 or sending an email to info@gwipl.org (please put “God’s Creation and Global Warming Video” in the subject line, and indicate which faith(s) you would like addressed in the study guide).
Lighten Up! A Religious Reponse to Global Warming
This video, produced by the Regeneration Project, seeks to engage a religious response by showing the devastating effects of global climate change and highlight why and how faith communities should respond. The twenty-minute video is an excellent resource for a workshop or other type of educational event at your congregation. It provides an overview of a faith response to global warming and simple ways to cut energy use in your congregation. Each copy of the video comes with a brief Facilitator’s Study Guide.
Copies of Lighten Up! can be ordered from Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light for $5, by calling 202-885-8684 or sending an email to info@gwipl.org (please put 'Lighten Up Video' in the subject line). It is also available in Spanish.
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