[pf] Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, being shown in Auckland NZ

At 17:23 26/7/2001 +1200, Jeremy Hall <jhall@kiwilink.co.nz> wrote to
GV-NZ, with Subject: [GN]Public Screening: "Earth on Edge"  Wed 1 August :-

Ecoversity NZ invites you to an evening of networking for environmental
action, featuring the recent Bill Moyers project, "Earth on Edge". . .

WHEN:  Wednesday evening, August 1, 7:30pm
WHERE: SCAPA (School of Creative & Performing Arts), Shortland St, Auckland. 
Admission by koha [Mäori for gift/donation] to cover venue and video hire.

Acclaimed American journalist Bill Moyers and an award-winning team of
producers reveal recent scientific evidence that we are approaching a key
environmental threshold:

"Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge" showcases new data depicting the scale
of human impact on the planet's life-support systems. The two-hour
broadcast explores one of the the most important questions of the new
century: What is happening to Earth's capacity to support nature and
civilisation?

This recent Public Television broadcast coincided with the launch of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international effort to gauge the
health of the world's forests, grasslands, coastal and freshwater areas. 
Preliminary findings were featured in the World Resources Institute's World
Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life. [See: 
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr2000/pdf.html to download the PDF reports.]

The statistics from their preliminary findings are staggering: half the
world's wetlands lost in one century, half the world's forests chopped
down, 70 percent of the world's major marine fisheries depleted, the
world's reefs at risk.

But the broadcast pushes well past the numbers. Moyers and his team also
take us on a journey of hope to meet people from the American Midwest to
Mongolia who are pioneering sustainable solutions to ecological problems.
Each story takes place in one of five major ecosystems: forest,
agriculture, coastal, grassland, and fresh water. Reports from Kansas,
British Columbia, Brazil, South Africa, and Mongolia illuminate the ways in
which human demands over the past century have been wearing holes in the
fabric of life.

This broadcast profiles individuals who are confronting the challenge head
on, people who understand how their lives depend on Earth's ecosystems and
how their own energy and dedication might help restore them. Moyers tells
individual stories, in far-flung locations, but in the end it is strikingly
clear that the program is about all of us­ -- what we've done to the Earth
and what we can still do to turn things around, if we act quickly.

"Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge" is augmented by an extensive website: 
( http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/ ) as well as an education and outreach
campaign directed by WRI. The site provides in-depth information about
ecosystems as well as updates on their status and information about how you
can take action. WRI is also organizing a series of live events and panel
discussions promoting public dialogue around the issues raised by Earth on
Edge and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

For further details, contact Michael at 916-3817.


"To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in
the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to
try."                   --James Bertolino, poet

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