[getsmart-l] Doc & Talk next Tuesday

[Janet May]

>From the tenants list serve at 215 Spadina.  

 

The Centre for Social Innovation and Green Enterprise Toronto launch Doc &
Talk next Tuesday, our new monthly film series. We'll be screening Refugees
of the Blue Planet and spending a bit of time after the film discussing our
thoughts and impressions. 

 

Please join us!  And please forward the note below to your networks if
appropriate.

 

:-)

 

Eli 

 

Doc & Talk: "Refugees of the Blue Planet" kicks off a new monthly film
series from CSI and GET

Tuesday, November 6
5:30-7:00pm
Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400 (Alterna Boardroom)
PWYC ($5.00 recommended); No RSVP required

The Centre for Social Innovation and Green Enterprise Toronto
<http://www.greenenterprise.net/>  are delighted to present Doc & Talk - our
new monthly after-work series of great documentaries and lively
conversation. The series will showcase great films that explore the social,
cultural, economic and environmental themes of our time, with time for
post-movie discussion. Our first film is Refugees of the Blue Planet and is
brought to us by Planet in Focus <http://www.planetinfocus.org/> . 

Refugees of the Blue Planet; Canada, documentary, 2006; 52 mins;
Jean-Philippe Duval & Helene Moquette

A Canadian farmer, a fisherman in the Maldives and a Brazilian peasant: they
live poles apart, under widely varying socio-economic conditions. Yet they
are victims of the same tragedy. They are among the 25 million people forced
to move for environmental reasons - the new displaced persons, driven from
their homes by toxic gases linked to petroleum development, rising water
levels due to climate warming or intensive eucalyptus farming done for
economic reasons. Their land has become dangerous, flooded, or sterile.
While the number of ecological refugees now exceeds that of political
refugees, their existence is scarcely recognized. Yet by 2050 they may well
number a billion

 

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