tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627566859727378268.post5590255335188098076..comments2023-10-16T04:38:29.980-07:00Comments on Climate Crisis Chicago: Is It Time for a Climate Crisis Summit in Chicago?Joe Scarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02622018908879921573noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627566859727378268.post-61382984349750777242012-09-13T17:20:17.767-07:002012-09-13T17:20:17.767-07:00Fighting Bob Fest: Featured Speaker Bill McKibben...Fighting Bob Fest: Featured Speaker Bill McKibben<br /><br />This Sat., Sept. 15th, is Fighting Bob Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. This is an annual event for progressives. One of the featured speakers will be Bill McKibben. He will also be doing a breakout session on climate change. For details go to www.fightingbob.org<br />About 10,000 are expected this year.<br />Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246100331676128328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627566859727378268.post-13994986283502957092012-09-11T16:51:08.500-07:002012-09-11T16:51:08.500-07:00The award winning documentary "Chasing Ice&qu...The award winning documentary "Chasing Ice" will be playing at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, Nov. 16-20. This film confronts the climate crisis. Its producer made the award winning documentary "The Cove". Below is a synopsis.<br /><br />Betsy<br /><br />Chasing Ice<br /><br />SYNOPSIS<br />In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.<br /><br />Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.<br /><br />As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.<br /><br />Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246100331676128328noreply@blogger.com