A Planet Under Pressure:
Citizens and Scientists Taking Action on
Global Warming and Other Threats
A 2011 Film and Lecture Series
APlanetUnderPressure:
A Free Special Screening
Citizens and Scientists
Taking Action on
Global Warming and
Other Threats
A Film & Lectures Series
Hosted by SFU Environmental Sciences Students Union
Thursday March 10, 7–9 pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre,
515 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC
presented by Continuing Studies
in Science and Environment at
Simon Fraser University
After the film there will be an opportunity for
questions and dialogue.
For more information visit:
www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science
Introduction and Discussion Leaders:
Alex Chen, Representative, Environmental Science
Student Union, Simon Fraser University
Andrew Weaver, Canada Research Chair in
Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Ocean
Science, University of Victoria
Jon Cooksey, Writer, Director, Actor, How to Boil a Frog
Reservations
recommended as seating
is limited.
To reserve a seat visit,
www.sfu.ca/reserve
April 18
Building Low-Carbon
Cities: A Response to
Climate Change
Presented by Noel Brown,
President and CEO, Friends
of the United Nations, New
York
Coming soon
Generation Us: The
Challenge of Global
Warming
Andrew Weaver, Professor
and Canada Research Chair
in Atmospheric Science,
School of Earth and Ocean
Science, University of
Victoria
Details on back page.
Abstract:
How to Boil a Frog is a comedic documentary
that mixes rapid-fire humor with hard-hitting
facts to show the consequences of overshoot:
too many people using up too little planet. With
its upfront Everyman approach, world-class
experts, and iconoclastic humor, How to Boil a
Frog gives us the scoop on the imminent end of
the world as we know it and 5 surprising ways
that regular people like you and me can save
civilization, while making our own lives better
now.
How to Boil a Frog tells the story of a guy
who decided that he had to do something
personally to make sure his daughter was going
to have a future beyond living on a raft with
the last polar bear. All he had to do was stop
global warming, overpopulation, peak oil, social
and economic injustice, and Humanity’s war
on Nature, and get home in time for dinner.
Fortunately, he didn’t hesitate, because he was
clueless. But he got smarter.
How to Boil a Frog puts together the whole
package of solutions, psychology of change, the
bigger picture of environment, energy and economics, and
of course humor. How to Boil a Frog makes it all personal:
it’s a movie about an average guy trying to do the right
thing for his kid — a guy who got changed in the process,
and wanted to pass it on because his life got better and he’d
like yours to be better too. And it turns out…we get a future
out of it!
Awards:
FilmShift Film Festival, Boston, MA Oct 2010
• Best Environmental Film award
Mammoth International Film Festival, Mammoth, CA Dec 2010
• Best Green Film
Los Angeles Movie Awards, Dec 2010
• Best Documentary
• Best Director — Documentary
• Best Concept — Documentary
• Best Visual Effects - Documentary
Writer’s Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards (winner to
be announced at ceremony, April 2011)
• Finalist — best writing for a documentary
and others
Reservations: www.sfu.ca/reserve
A Planet under Pressure:
Citizens and Scientists Taking Action on Global Warming and Other Threats
Monday, April 18, 2011, 7–9 pm
Coming Soon
Building Low-Carbon Cities:
A Response to Climate Change
Generation Us: The Challenge of
Global Warming
Presented by Noel Brown, President and CEO, Friends of the
United Nations, New York
Segal Centre 1400, SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street
Free Public Lecture
Andrew Weaver, Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Ocean Science,
University of Victoria
Abstract:
Abstract:
Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge for the planet
and must be addressed by humankind as a whole. Over half of the
world’s population is now living in cities and this proportion is steadily
increasing. The building of model low-carbon cities is a critical step in
responding to this challenge.
This presentation will summarize the outcomes of the Sixth Global
Forum on Human Settlements (April 11, 2011) which will focus on the
theme, Building Low-Carbon Cities. The Forum will be held in New
York where participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges
for cities working towards low carbon status and exchange successful
experiences.
Bio:
Noel Brown is the President of the Friends of
the United Nations (UN), a non
governmental organization dedicated to
advancing the cause of the UN by building
public awareness of and mobilizing support
for its initiatives. Dr. Brown also serves on
the Board of Directors of several
organizations including the Climate Institute,
the Earth Communications Office, the
Rainforest Alliance, Roots for Peace, and International Sea-keepers
Society.
The former Director of the United Nations Environment
Programme, North American Regional office, Dr. Brown has
represented the UN at several major international conferences and
negotiations on environment and development issues, including
the historic Earth Summit in Rio, 1992. He has initiated numerous
innovations in the service of the earth’s environmental protection
and sustainable development. Through his work with Peace Child
International, he sponsored and encouraged a group of young
people to rewrite Agenda 21 (the Earth Summit’s Blueprint for
Sustainable Development) in a style and language that would be
meaningful to their generation and which resulted in Rescue Mission,
an international best-seller. In keeping with efforts to address the
moral dimension of the environmental crisis, Dr .Brown introduced
the Environmental Sabbath Programme to the UN, now celebrated
worldwide by thousands of congregations in connection with World
Environment Day. He holds a PhD. in International Relations from Yale
University, a M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Seattle
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This talk will focus on Andrew Weaver’s new book “Generation Us:
The Challenge of Global Warming”. In clear and accessible language,
Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming,
outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path
toward solutions to the problem.
The reality of global warming has long been accepted within the
scientific community, yet it remains a hotly debated topic at the
political and social level. Why is this? Is it the fact that the ultimate
effects of global warming will not be felt in our lifetimes? Do we
really feel no moral responsibility for future generations? Dr. Weaver,
one of the world’s leading experts in the field, contends that, just as
humans have been responsible for creating the problem of global
warming, we must also be the solution.
Bio:
Dr. Andrew J. Weaver received his B.Sc
(Mathematics and Physics) from the
University of Victoria in 1983, a Certificate
of Advanced Studies in Mathematics from
Cambridge University in 1984, and a PhD
in Applied Mathematics from the
University of British Columbia in 1987. He
is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in
climate modelling and analysis in the
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. He has
authored or coauthored over 190 peer-reviewed papers in climate,
meteorology, oceanography, earth science, policy, education and
anthropology journals. He was a Lead Author in the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2nd, 3rd and 4th
scientific assessments and is also a Lead Author in the ongoing 5th
scientific assessment. He was the Chief Editor of the Journal of
Climate from 2005-2009. Dr. Weaver is the past recipient of the
NSERC E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1997), Killam Research
Fellowship (2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008). He received
the CIAR Young Explorers award as one of the top 20 scientists in
Canada under the age of 40 (2003) and is an elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada (2001), the Canadian Meteorological and
Oceanographic Society (2007) and the American Meteorological
Society (2008). He was appointed to the to the Order of British
Columbia in 2008. His book Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming
World was published by Viking Canada in September 2008. His
second book Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming will be
published by Orca Books in April 2011.
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