Regenerating Life takes a fresh look at solving the climate crisis
On Thursday April 25th at 7pm, Newtown Earth Day & WPKN 89.5-FM will host a screening of the new documentary film Regenerating Life at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, CT.
Immediately following the movie, there will be a special appearance by the director John Feldman. He will participate in an open question and answer discussion with the audience.
Regenerating Life takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis. It challenges the prevailing idea that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the primary cause of this crisis and offers a new narrative. The film proposes that it is humankind’s relentless destruction of the natural world that has caused the climate crisis. This is because nature – the vast biodiversity that exists on our planet – regulates and balances Earth’s climate.
Filmmaker John Feldman dives into the economic and political systems that have encouraged this destruction of Earth through the relentless quest for wealth and dominion, but stresses that we can reverse this destructive process by Regenerating Life.
John visits people who are developing solutions. By working with nature, they are restoring the forests, fields, wetlands, and oceans. They are regenerating soils to grow healthy food and build healthy communities. This is the solution to the climate crisis.
Regenerating Life invites audiences to rethink their assumptions about climate change and humankind’s relationship to nature. Through community screenings and discussions, people may be inspired to come together to make changes in their own communities to help restore regional forests, parks and waterways and support the emergence of community gardens and locally grown nutritious food.
A special thank you to our special Earth Day sponsors- Newtown Earth Day, WPKN 89.5-FM, Holmes Fine Gardens, Long Island Organics Council, Northeast Natural Medicine, Segura Viudas & Rewild Long Island.
For more information about the film go to http://hummingbirdfilms.com/regeneratinglife/
About WPKN 89.5 Community Radio
WPKN, rated “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, recently completed its long-awaited move to 277 Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport—walking distance to Read’s Artspace and other arts venues. Founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunteers, WPKN offers a unique and eclectic mix of live and recorded music, news, public affairs, spoken word, arts and culture and other free-form programming which defy genre. WPKN is proud to be listener-supported, commercial-free, community-driven radio available to the public at no cost, any time, day or night.