Film Screening – Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?

Event Details:
When: November 13, 2018 7:00 pm – November 13, 2018 9:00 pm
Location: Unity Hall at the Middlebury Congregational Church, 30 North Pleasant Street, Middlebury, VT

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Vermont Integrated Architecture PC is hosting a screening of the Vermont film Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? at 7 pm in Unity Hall at the Middlebury Congregational Church, 30 North Pleasant Street, Middlebury, VT. Filmmaker Lisa Merton and Associate Producer Chris Hardee will be present for questions and a discussion following the film. Light refreshments will be served.

“BURNED is a feature-length documentary, which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. The film tells the story of how woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior, and of the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use.

Through interviews with activists, experts, and citizens, along with verité-style footage shot across the U.S. and in the EU and UK, the film interweaves the science of climate change, the escalating energy-policy disputes, the dynamics of forest ecology, the biomass industry practices, the conflict between jobs and trees, and the actions of activists and citizens who are working to protect their own health, their communities, the forest, and the planet’s climate.

Woven together, the various stories present an intimate and visceral account of what is at this moment in time a critical, yet mostly unknown, national and international controversy.” (from www.burnedthemovie.com)