Updated Film Screening Events for December 2009

Film Screening Events for the Month of December
Sponsored by Sustainable Shenandoah

December 2nd
Screening of: “Food, Inc.”

Where does your food really come from?
In Food, Inc., Award winning film maker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the U.S. food industry – an industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment

Reviews of: Food, Inc.
“Average people are getting concerned. Amazingly, Wal-Mart signed up with the eco-conscious Stonyfield Farms, due to consumer demand….3½ stars” Roger Ebert
"Don't take another bite till you see Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Essential Viewing” - Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"See it. Bring your kids if you have them. Bring someone else's kids if you don't." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

December 16th - Sustainable Guest Speaker

Sustainable Shenandoah is delighted to host Mr. Charles Stephens of Portland, Oregon, as our guest speaker. Charlie and I ‘met’ on the internet four years ago when I found his brilliant presentation entitled ‘Peak Oil and Finite Resources’ and graciously gave quite generously of his time in helping me understand the possible global and local ramifications of finite resources, on a finite planet. Charlie’s involvement and successes with the Portland Peak Oil Task Force provided inspiration for many community localization efforts, including our own, and he joins us next Wednesday to share his experiences, particularly with respect to engaging the various agencies, groups, and local government in Page County.

Charlie will provide an overview of Pacific Northwest efforts to create a more sustainable bioregion of thriving communities, in spite of the looming triple threat of declining fossil fuel supplies, global climate change and world financial system meltdown. This will be followed by a conversation about how the lessons learned in the Pacific Northwest might be applied in the Shenandoah bioregion and its communities, with a focus on working in local partnerships to create the changes we need on the ground.
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Biography: Charlie graduated from Dartmouth College in 1973 and Thayer School of Engineering in 1974. His graduate work in energy systems and renewable energy was done at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1986 and 1987. Charlie is also a retired Navy Commander with 22 years of active and reserve service.

Charlie is currently a consultant and advisor to people who wish to create high performance, sustainable homes and small commercial buildings. He is also a senior associate in the Energy Services Group at the Cadmus Group, a research and analytics firm with practice areas in Water, Energy Services, Social Marketing and Communications, Green Building, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Strategic Environmental Management, and International Development.

He recently completed 17 years of service at the Oregon Department of Energy. His focus areas there were residential energy efficiency and renewable energy applications, new technology development, sustainable building and community development, and energy policy for the State of Oregon. In 1999 he created the first U.S. incentive program for green building, Oregon’s Sustainable Building Tax Credit Program, and was a design team member for a significant number of sustainable building projects. In 2001, he began the Department’s work on high performance homes, designed to generate as much energy annually as they use.of Energy’s Advisory Committee on Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards.
Other areas of current work involve sustainable community development, the regional, national and international energy future, the economic impacts of energy use, the relationship between energy and food, prospects for various alternatives to fossil fuels, and the relationship between energy and American foreign policy.

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