Conservation Movie Night & Brown Bag Discussion Group - February 11 (Monday)

Join EAS and Sierra Club members at our monthly movie and discussion group on Monday, February 11.  Enjoy a 6:15 dinner-in-the-round with people from both organizations (bring your own brown bag dinner; hot beverages will be provided). 

Our February movie will be Bird Song and Coffee: A Wake-up Call (Cine Golden Eagle Award )
Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn that they hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. In this film we hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers, and-most importantly-from coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are inextricably linked, economically and environmentally. 

We also learn some simple but effective solutions - that by changing our buying habits, we coffee consumers can not only guarantee farmers a fair price, but also protect the songbirds that visit our backyard feeders--all while enjoying the highest-quality coffee, sent directly to our homes by the farmers themselves.

Our brown-bag dinner topic will be “Hidden impacts of green power sources.”  There's a downside to everything. Recently, alternative energy sources are displayed in the best of terms, almost the proverbial silver bullet. Learn about some of the unpleasant truths about green power from Tim McGruder, EAS Conservation Chair, and let us in on some of your own observations.

Join us at 6:15 to be part of everything or at 7:15 for just the movie.

This event will be held at theNorthlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 308 4th Ave. S. (corner of 4th Ave. S. and State).

Directions:  Take I-405 exit 18 (NE 85th).  Drive west on Central Way to 3rd St. (stoplight). Turn left (south) on 3rd St. and follow it as it bears left and changes name to State St.  Turn left on 4th Ave S.