Earth Days: The Seeds of a Revolution première on Facebook
Geschreven op 16-3-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Agenda, Natuur
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”?
Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism.
The April 11 Facebook event, eight days ahead of the film’s television broadcast on April 19, will be the first time a major broadcaster has introduced a full-length documentary on the site, according to “American Experience” executives. NY Times
See also: Earth Days Probes the Roots of Environmentalism at Huffington Post
Earth Day 2010 – Earth Day 2010: International Show of Peace 2010 Bird’s Nest Beijing – Christie’s Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on Earth Day 2010 – Earth Day 2010: Faces of the Grassroots Environmental Justice Video Contest
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