Kishwaukee College will be offering two films on April 18 that give community members a unique opportunity to celebrate Earth Day. YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip will be shown on April 18 at 2:00p.m. and Green Fire will be shown that same evening at 7:00p.m. Both films will be screened in the Student Lounge in the Kishwaukee College Student Center and are free and open to the public.
YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip follows three friends who traveled all 50 states in one year to explore how individuals face environmental challenges and crises…and kept all their garbage with them! Along the way, they find the wonderful and the weird and document it all with humor and a sense of hope. This is billed as a “docu-comedy” and has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world.
Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time is a production of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service and the Center for Humans and Nature. The film shares highlights from Leopold’s life and extraordinary career, explaining how his work shaped conservation in the 20th century and still inspires people today. Prior to the film, beginning at 6:30, there will be a public reading of excerpts from Leopold’s seminal conservation work, A Sand County Almanac.
The screenings of YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip and Green Fire are co-sponsored by the Kishwaukee College Continuing Education Department, the Biology Department, and the Student Government Association. For more information on either films or the readings, contact Terese Dudek at 815-825-2086 , ext. 3640. For more information about YERT, visit www.yert.com; for more information on Green Fire, visit www.aldoleopold.org.
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