Green Works in Kansas City

2008 Film Series Green Works in Kansas City was one of several sponsors of a month-long series of environmental films (April '08) that were shown at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in midtown. For sewer and water quality resources related to the films, click here .

	Tuesday April 1st, 7 pm. A Convenient Truth. A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil is an informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world.

	Tuesday April 8th, 7 pm. Everything's Cool Everything's Cool is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy.

	Tuesday April 15th, 7 pm. Crapshoot. A hazardous mix of solid and liquid waste is flushed into the sewer every day. With literally billions of gallons of water passing through municipal sewer systems - composed of unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste, and food - the question becomes: where does it all go? And what effect does that have on us?

	Tuesday April 22nd, 7 pm. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of the Empire A middle class white guy comes to grips with peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot and the demise of the american lifestyle.

	Tuesday April 29th, 7 pm. How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet How to save the world exposes globalization and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the biocolonialism of multinational corporations.