Thursday, December 15, 2011 - The Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF) announced today that it will host a Sustainablity Expo and Call To Action programming in conjunction with the 6th annual festival which will be help February 23-25th in Golden, CO at the American Mountaineering Center.

CEFF celebrates the power of film to inspire, educate, and motivate audiences. CEFF presents thought-provoking films and dialogue that raise awareness of a wide variety of interconnected ecological, social, and economic themes. The Festival provides an experience for the audience that goes beyond passive film viewing: CEFF inspires audiences into awareness and action. Earth Protect is a sponsor of the Festival. 

“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over  in all facets of people’s lives  from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe including Tuvalu, Peru, England, Uganda,Kenya, Belgium, Denmark , Germany and the U.S., to expose the industry’s  practices of exerting their considerable influence and power to the benefit of themselves with no regard for the human or environmental impacts.

The film includes interviews with scientists, industry experts, international political delegates, climate change victims as well as deniers, and people affected by the practices of the fossil fuel industry. Among them: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon; Rep. Henry Waxman; former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman; leading climate science skeptics Myron Ebell, Christopher Lord Monckton, and Jay Lehr; Ken Wiwa, the son of the slain Nigerian environmentalist; farmers in Peru and Uganda; and Mike Robichaux, one of the few doctors willing to treat Gulf residents sick with chemical poisoning from the BP spill, Republican Presidential candidates, Texas governor Rick Perry and Minnesota representative Michele Bachman, as well as other prominent politicians like Senator James Inhofe, from oil-rich Oklahoma.

Got hope and change?

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger wrote an essay titled "The Death of Environmentalism" that shook the environmental community -- although probably not quite enough. Nordhaus and Shellenberger (N and S) have gone on to form The Breakthrough Institute, arguing that we need technological breakthroughs in order to solve our biggest environmental problem, global warming, as well as advocating for what they see as innovative solutions to various other problems.

A SCHOOL packed with hungry students is sure to generate a lot of waste from all those plastic bottles and sandwich wrappers. Urrbrae Agricultural High School wants to recycle as much of that as possible. The school is developing a waste/recycling facility using a $10,000 “Zero Waste” grant from the State Government, which was announced on World Environment Day, June 5.