Posted at 2:15 a.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Earth Day celebrated with movie, panel discussion
Advertiser Staff
The final events in the Windward Community College Common Book speaker series will include two showings of Al Gore's Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," a presentation on "The Climate Crisis and a panel discussion on "Global Warming and Globalization."The events are being held in conjunction with Earth Day and are free and open to the public.
Today and tomorrow, Gore's independent, insightful movie will be shown from 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. at the Hale Akoakoa, Room 105 on the Windward campus.
On Tuesday, "The Climate Crisis" will be presented by educator, environmentalist and Honolulu resident Stuart Scot at 2:30 p.m., in the Paliku Theatre. The presentation summarizes the science of global warming, establishes the reality of the human ecological footprint as a major causal factor in this phenomenon, and considers individual and collective solutions to this challenge, a UH news release stated.
The panel discussion on "Global Warming and Globalization" will also be held Tuesday at the Paliku Theatre, starting at 4 p.m.
Panel members will be Sarah Hadmack, WCC religion instructor, Erik Gardner, WCC philosophy instructor, Floyd McCoy, WCC associate professor of geology and oceanography, and Patricia Tummons of Environment Hawai'i. The panel will discuss the significance and implications of global warming for the future of humanity and the world. Refreshments will be served after the panel presentation.
