Green Works in Kansas City

2009 Film Series Green Works in Kansas City is one of several sponsors of a month-long series of environmental films that are being shown at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in midtown, 4501 Walnut, at 7:00 pm in the evening. A facilitated discussion follows each documentary. Admission is free, with donations appreciated. The documentaries on March 24, April 7, 14, and 21 and are cosponsored by Green Works in Kansas City and the All Souls Green Sanctuary Committee.

	Tuesday March 24th, 7 pm. Addicted to Plastic Directed and produced by Ian Connacher, 85 minutes For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. Addicted To Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up. For web resources relating to this video and issue, click here.

	Tuesday, April 7 - 7:00 pm Double Feature: "Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-energize America" and "Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars" Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-energize America Jeff Barrie . 2006 . 56 minutes The filmmaker asks himself how he can make a difference. He explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by coal-powered energy .The film provides simple, practical, affordable solutions to America's energy crisis and shows how we can save electricity, save money and make a difference for ourselves and the planet. Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars Mat Harnes & George Sledge • 2008 • 35 minutes This is the story of unlikely partners - mayors, ranchers, farmers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, and lawyers - that came together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants in Texas.

	Tuesday April 14th, 7 pm. King Corn Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curt Ellis . 2007 . 88 minutes Two recent college grads learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

	Tuesday April 21th, 7 pm. How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet Thomas and Barbara Burstyn . 2007 . 104 minutes What does an environmentally friendly biodynamic food system capable of feeding everyone actually look like? This film is a blueprint for a post-industrial future. It takes you into the heart of the world's most important renaissance. The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.