[Scpg] A Fierce Green Fire Film Premier/MON May 7/SBCC Center for Sustainability Co-Sponsors

[Margie Bushman, Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability]

A Fierce Green Fire will screen at 7 p.m. Monday, 
May 7 in the Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota 
St. in Santa Barbara. Appearing will be Kitchell 
and Paul Relis, founding director of the 
<http://www.cecsb.org>Santa Barbara Community 
Environmental Council and is interviewed in the film.
Emacs!


A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture 
exploration of the environmental movement ­ 
grassroots and global activism spanning 50 years 
from conservation to climate change. From halting 
dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons 
of toxic waste at Love Canal; from 
<http://www.greenpeace.org>Greenpeace saving the 
whales to 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Mendes>Chico 
Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; 
from climate change to the promise of 
transforming our civilization, the film tells 
vivid stories about people fighting ­ and succeeding ­ against enormous odds.

Featured in the film are the incomparable 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Gibbs>Lois 
Gibbs; alternative ecology visionaries 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hawken>Paul 
Hawken and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand>Stewart 
Brand; Bob Bullard, environmental justice 
advocate and author; 
<http://www.billmckibben.com/bio.html>Bill 
McKibben, author and founder of 
<http://www.350.org>350.org; Paul Watson and Rex 
Weyler, both early Greenpeace activists; Amory 
Lovins, guru of the “soft path”; Martin Litton, 
at 92 still thundering about how you’ve got to 
have “hatred in your heart”; John Adams, 
co-founder of the <http://www.nrdc.org/>Natural 
Resources Defense Council; and many more. A 
wealth of archival material captures the events 
in all their immediacy and passion.

The film’s title, A Fierce Green Fire, is derived 
from a powerful quote from American conservation 
scientist 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold>Aldo 
Leopold, who wrote of a particularly 
transformative experience as a supervisor of a 
national forest for the 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/>U.S. Forest Service when 
he was responsible for reducing the wolf 
population: “We reached the old wolf in time to 
watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I 
realized then, and have known ever since, that 
there was something new to me in those eyes ­ 
something known only to her and to the mountain.”

Local sponsors include the 
<http://www.sbnature.org/>Santa Barbara Museum of 
Natural History, the Community Environmental 
Council, the Environmental Defense Center, the 
<http://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/>Sustainability 
Project, the <http://www.sblandtrust.org/>Land 
Trust for Santa Barbara County, the 
<http://sustainability.sbcc.edu/>SBCC Center for 
Sustainability, the 
<http://www.gballiance.com/>Green Building 
Alliance, <http://www.artfromscrap.org/>Art From 
Scrap, <http://www.thompsonnaylor.com/>Thompson 
Naylor Architects and the 
<http://www.greenshortsfilmfest.org/>Green Shorts 
Film Festival. This event is funded in part by a 
grant from the Marjorie Luke Theatre’s Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Act.


General tickets are $22.50 and Student/Senior 
tickets are $12.50, tickets available at Lobero ticket office.

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