Date: Tuesday, September 14
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Place: Monona Public Library, Media/Community Room

Green Tuesdays kicks off its Monona season with screenings of  the feature-length documentary Yes Men Fix the World and UW student short More Jam, More Jobs. 

In Yes Men Fix the World, two daring political activists, posing as top executives, infiltrate conferences and pull off pranks designed to provoke better business practices. The first hoax in the film has one of the Yes Men posing as a corporate executive for Dow Chemical who is invited to appear on BBC for a live interview. He announces that Dow, which purchased Union Carbide in 2001, was taking full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal disaster at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in India by offering $12 billion for a victims-compensation fund and for site clean-up. The fallout is amazing.

The last hoax of the film is too delicious to share in words. You must enjoy it with all your senses, like a fine chocolate, not with mere description. Know that it is a heart-hoping, idealists’ call for a better world — the kind of thing best seen in the company of those who feel compelled to work toward a better world – other Green Tuesday attendees!

More Jam, More Jobs, shows one woman’s attempt to convince twleve sororities to buy local. When Chi Omega sorority sister Jessica Halpern finds out that buying high quality, locally produced products can help create jobs for homeless people in her town, she takes matters into her own hands. Follow Jessica and her tray of crackers as she tries to change sorority consumption patterns, and the local commodity food chain, one sister at a time – by buying Porchlight jam. (Director/Camera: Jesse Mursky-Fuller; B.A., Neurobiology)

About Green Tuesdays in Monona

Green Tuesdays Films & Lectures is an ongoing community exchange of information and ideas on sustainable living brought to you by The Natural Step Monona and the Monona Public Library since 2008. Green Tuesdays in Monona are on the second and fifth Tuesdays of the month, from September through May. They start at 6:30 and go to about 8:00, with engaging and fun conversations often pushing the conclusion a bit past that hour. The series is free and open to the public. The Monona Public Library is at 1000 Nichols Road.

Whole Foods serves treats. Attendees are encouraged to come early for delightful food and drink.

Green Tuesdays films are supported by the Dane County Environmental Council.

About Green Tuesdays

This September Green Tuesdays expands to become a circuit of offerings, reaching four additional communities: Mt. Horeb, Cross Plains, Oregon, and Middleton, with Cottage Grove likely joining the circuit in January. The expansion allows more people to attend Green Tuesdays, more to attend closer to home rather than coming into Monona, and gives everyone more choices of when to attend. The films shown in each community will be the same, but presentations will differ, depending on the interests of the citizens of each community. With the assistance of film festival planners and curators from the Nelson Institute and in partnership with sustainability leaders from each community, TNS Monona facilitates this joint effort.

www.tnsmonona.org
www.mononalibrary.org
www.countyofdane.com/commissions/environmentalcouncil
www.nelson.wisc.edu/