Our next Eco Film on Friday February 10th will be The Last Mountain.

Genre: Documentary. 2011.  English. 95 minutes. Director: Bill Haney

The fight for the last great mountain in America’s Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. With Bobby Kennedy Jr. enlisted as a passionate force for preserving Coal River Mountain and the economic power of the fossil fuel industry twisting democracy to its advantage The Last Mountain highlights a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.

Our next Eco Film on Friday February 3rd will be Marc Vella – The Sand Piano.

Marc Vella pianist, composer, writer, and poet has decided to travel around the world with his piano. In this journey he goes with his Loving Caravan to Mauritania, Marocco, Senegal and he plays his piano at the streets and in important stages, always connecting with the local people and musicians sharing his love for life and for an optimistic world. A really inspiring documentary that touch the heart of all.

Watch a video of him and his son from his Loving Caravan in 2008:

Join us after the film, as Marc Vella will personally explain his Loving Caravan and the possibility of having the next project in India!

Next Friday’s Eco Film, screening January 27th at 7 p.m., will be Cuba: The Accidental Eden.

Genre: Documentary. 2010. English. 52 minutes. PBS Nature

Cuba may have been restricted politically and economically for the past 50 years, but its borders have remained open to wildlife for which Cuba’s undeveloped islands are an irresistible draw. While many islands in the Caribbean have poisoned or paved over their ecological riches on land and in the sea in pursuit of a growing tourist industry, Cuba’s wild landscapes have remained virtually untouched, creating a safe haven for rare and intriguing indigenous animals, as well as for hundreds of species of migrating birds and marine creatures. Coral reefs have benefited, too. Independent research has shown that Cuba’s corals are doing much better than others both in the Caribbean and around the world.

Next Friday, January 13th, our Eco Film will be Force of Nature.

Genere: Documentary. 2010. English. 93 minutes. Director: Sturla Gunnarsson

Scientist Dr. David Suzuki, a leading environmentalist in Canada, tells many reasons why he and we should care about the environment. With the human population growing exponentially and humans having increasingly longer life expectancies, we as a species are having a larger footprint on the environment. Much of what is man made in the world, such as the economy, democracy and the dependence on fossil fuels, are treated as unchangeable forces of nature, when in reality they can and should be viewed critically, especially in their long term consequences on life on the planet. He also tells of the interconnectedness we are as a species without most really realizing it, and that we should have a stronger connection to place and what that means.