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A list of films shown by Sustainable Rossmoor at Peacock Hall, in reverse chronological order.  Scroll down to find some treasures!

Invisible Hand

 

Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m.


Winner of three Best Documentary awards and the first film to explore the Rights of Nature movement,  “Invisible Hand” focuses on one of the defining battles of our time — where Nature, democracy and capitalism face off – and asks: “Who will speak for Nature?”


In 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist' in Grant Township, PA. The 700 inhabitants filed a suit to prevent a permit for a fracked waste water injection well that threatened their drinking water. Both the drilling corporation and the State counter-sued. “Invisible Hand” is a metaphor for how, in a free market economy, capitalists and other self-interested individuals operate to exploit nature for profit, and who loses along the way.


Executive produced by narrated by Mark Ruffalo. 85 minutes. A discussion follows. 


Mark Ruffalo Protests

Is your life too plastic?

August 10, 2022


What starts as a competition between two small towns to reduce plastic bag use, leads to a discovery of the many ways plastic impacts the planet and our health -- and some things we can do about it.

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