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For Tu B'shvat, Green Team to Screen "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's Film on Global Warming
The Green Team, Temple Micah's new environmental group, will sponsor a screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary that highlights former Vice President Al Gore's efforts to draw attention to global warming, on the evening of Feb. 3. The viewing will be part of a special Tu B'shvat Havdalah service for the whole family.
The film, which was nominated for two Academy Awards, is based on a slideshow presentation that Gore developed as part of an educational campaign about the dangers of climate change. It contains what Gore describes as visual evidence of global warming, such as melting glaciers and ice caps, and scientific research to demonstrate that human activity has helped increase temperatures to their highest levels in hundreds of thousands of years. Gore warns that action must be taken to prevent the temperature from rising even faster.
The film is interspersed with vignettes from Gore's personal odyssey: boyhood summers on his parents' bucolic farm in Tennessee; a college course that alerted him to climate change issues; family tragedies that led him to hold life more dearly; a doomed presidential bid that left him time to think about how he could make a difference, and, ultimately, his decision to deliver his multi-media presentation more than 1,000 times to people all over the world.
The film will be shown on Tu B'shvat, the Jewish holiday for planting trees. The Green Team is working to help Micah members make the connection between the Jewish holidays and the Jewish ethic of tikkun olam ("repairing the earth"). For example, for Hanukkah, the group sold compact fluorescent light bulbs as a way for Micah members to increase energy efficiency, prevent carbon dioxide emissions and save money. For Tu B'shvat, the group would like Micah members to plant trees locally and saving forests around the world.
The Tu B'shvat Havdalah service will start at 5 p.m., followed by pizza and salad ($5 per person) and the showing of the film. The Green Team plans to show a fun movie for younger children, who also may listen to a reading of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. Afterward, the group will moderate a short discussion of what individuals and a synagogue can do to help reduce global warming.
To attend the viewing, email greenteam and specify the number of people who will be on hand to eat pizza.
[from February 2007 Vine]
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