Film: Gasland July 13, 2012

Film immediately follows the Growing Hope Monthly Community Potluck -- all are welcome! Please bring a dish to pass.

The Sustainability Film Series is a collaboration between Growing Hope, Transition Ypsi, the downtown Ypsilanti Library and the Ypsi Food Coop. Every 2nd Friday, we screen films on topics related to community resilience, energy, sustainable food, clean water, transportation, justice, and other topics relevant to a world with more expensive, less available energy, a warming climate, and economic instability.

Gasland examines environmental and political implications of the process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" in regards to natural gas extraction. The film follows Josh Fox, the filmmaker, around the country, stopping in small towns and big cities, looking at how problems with hydraulic fracturing has contaminated drinking water supplies on the personal and small community level and investigates the threat to larger cities by hydraulic fracturing near streams that feed into larger rivers that supply water for cities such as New York and Philadelphia. All with his banjo in tow. 103 minutes.

Special Guest speaker: Nancy Schiffler of the Huron Valley Group of the Sierra Club.