CU-Bloomsburg to Host Green Campus Film Series
Bloomsburg, PA (03/14/2025) — Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg's Green Campus Spring Film Series will offer three evening sessions with five new environmental films.
Two double-feature nights will showcase shorter films. All will be screened in 218 Centennial Hall on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 27 (double feature)
Fixing Food 2: Fixing Food 2 features four short stories that focus on new ways of producing food without the environmental impacts of traditional agriculture.
Ever Green: In Ever Green, the story of two people who spent 40 years working to protect the environment of their Island in Puget Sound unfolds. They created a small organization that "mobilized their island community to protect forests, farmlands, and shorelines from development to preserve a healthy rural way of life," the filmmakers explain.
Thursday, April 10 (double feature)
Coral Gardeners: In the Maldives coral reefs are being damaged by climate change, leading to warming seawater and acidification, in the same ways coral reefs are being harmed globally. The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that if they are not rescued now 90 percent of them will disappear by 2050. But in the Maldives the island nation depends on the reefs for protection from the open ocean, for food and the businesses that revolve around them. Finding ways to regrow them throughout the chain of 1,200 islands is essential.
Entangled: Efforts over past decades to restrict or ban whaling have been successful in helping whale populations recover from near extinction. But right whales' numbers have dwindled today to about 350 individuals. A federal mandate has propelled the National Marine Fisheries Service into a balancing act. They must protect the whales from the massive numbers of lobster lines that entangle them while protecting, promoting, and the regulating the lobster fishery.
Thursday, April 24
Becoming Animal: Becoming Animal's filmmakers challenge viewers to explore our relationships to the "more than human" world and "recognize it for what it is: an exquisitely intricate system in which everything is alive and expressive; humans, animals and landscapes are inextricably interdependent, and there is no such thing as empty space." The film was shot in and around Grand Teton National Park and features its beauty as well as "diversity of wildlife, trails of curious humans in RVs and billion-year-old geology.
The film shares a focus on animals with the Earth Day celebration on the quad, "Wild About Earth Day," on Tuesday, April 22.
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