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Meaningful Movies Bellevue: Invisible Hand

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Please join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for the first film of our 2021 - 2022 season. We will be screening Invisible Hand for free! We will also be joined by a guest speaker immediately afterwards, so grab a drink and snack and get ready for a full 2 hour event.
Invisible Hand is the world’s first documentary film on the Rights of Nature Movement. Executive Producer, Mark Ruffalo, states “You hear time and time again that a corporation has the rights of a person. The idea that Nature has no rights whatsoever is absurd." This “paradigm shifting” story raises questions about the fate of capitalism and democracy and asks us all to consider the perspective of “Who speaks for Nature?" Invisible Hand documents front line communities that are providing a blueprint forward.

Meaningful Movies Bellevue: Kiss the Ground

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Kiss the Ground reveals that by regenerating the world’s soils, a farming process called “regenerative agriculture,” we have the potential to stabilize the climate! Soil is part of the solution to all our climate-related problems because of its ability to draw carbon from the atmosphere. By regenerating the soil, it’s possible to provide an abundance of food and restore ecosystems around the globe. Watching Kiss the Ground will inspire us all to get involved in ways that can rehabilitate the planet and heal ourselves in the process!

Listening to Water’s Wisdom

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

In the face of ecological heartache, how do we hold both grief and love together in a way that connects us to nature’s wisdom? Join us for our Earth Day service as we explore this question through nature’s rhythms, seasons and cycles of life.

Designing and Modifying Our Buildings to Reduce Climate Change

12700 Southeast 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

To learn more about what we, individually and collectively, must do, ECAM invites you to attend the April 20th meeting of 350/Eastside. Court Olson, former East Shore member, will be the featured speaker at this event followed by Q & A and discussion. He served as project manger for East Shore’s last capital building project when the sanctuary got a new electrical heating system and other energy efficiencies.

Oceana Presentation:  Protecting the World’s Oceans

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The oceans are currently facing unprecedented challenges due to pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction threatening marine and human life. ECAM invites you to attend the next 350/Eastside meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, June 15th, to learn about sustainable policies that can restore and protect the world’s oceans.

Meaningful Movies: Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line

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Please join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for the 2022 documentary Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line. Necessity is a powerful film following activists who enlist the “necessity” defense in a 2020 jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland, Oregon. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists, and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying highly inflammable products through protected waterways and treaty lands. In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along the Columbia River Gorge, the film revisits lessons of the New Deal era of building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era as they think about a Green New Deal.

Meaningful Movies: Overload: America’s Toxic Love Story

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Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for our third screening of the fall. We will be showing Overload: America’s Toxic Love Story, a powerful documentary about the toxic chemicals impacting our public health and our environment. Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them. With guidance from world-renowned physicians and environmental leaders, interviews with scientists and politicians, and stories of everyday Americans, Eastman uncovers how we got to be so overloaded with chemicals and explores whether there is anything we can do to take control of the exposure. She’s determined to find out: Can we hit the reset button, or is it too late?

Meaningful Movies: Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World

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Join us for a screening of Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World, a powerful documentary about five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfoot reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. We’ll have a lively discussion immediately after the film, so grab a snack and join this family-friendly screening! See you at the movies!

Lummi Totem Pole Prayer Journey

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Let us stand in solidarity with the Lummi as they undertake this Prayer journey on behalf of all of us. We will hear about previous totem pole journeys as well as this Prayer Journey and future events. All are welcome, including—especially—youth, families with children and anyone else concerned about justice and the future of our planet!

Meaningful Movies: Agritopia

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Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue as it screens Agritopia: Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food Forest Cohousing Village. Agritopia shows what imagining a new way of living can do as we learn how Ole and Maitri Ersson turned a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, into a permaculture co-living space and urban food forest. The Ersson’s and other community members transformed a parking lot and overgrown yard into Kailash EcoVillage, a model for sustainable living that includes cohousing and organic gardening. Come and learn about the inspiring steps Kailash EcoVillage has taken to develop a lifestyle that can heal our environment and provide people with an alternative way of living. This screening will be the last of our shows before we take a summer break, so don’t miss out. Be sure to attend this family-friendly event!

Meaningful Movies: DamNation

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Three years ago, Felt Soul Media filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel along with a Stoecker Ecological fish biologist and underwater photographer, Matt Stoecker, embarked on a journey to document the environmental impacts of dams across America. In their feature length documentary, they weave together stories of pristine rivers, age old salmon, cement walls and the people whose lives are bound together by the flowing water. Visually stunning and powerfully eye opening, DamNation documents the attempt to reverse a century's worth of land and water management mistakes. A powerful documentary from Bullfrog Films, DamNation is 87 minutes long, so grab a snack and drink. The film will be followed by a discussion session with attendees sharing their points of view about the film.

Covenant of the Salmon People: Film and Discussion

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Produced in collaboration with the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Tribe, Covenant of the Salmon People is a 60-minute film exploring how the Nimiipuu people’s relationship to salmon has shaped them. As the oldest documented civilization in North America, the Nimiipuu date back over 16,000 years to a creation story that is an agreement to protect salmon and speak on their behalf. The covenant with salmon is woven into Nimiipuu culture, history, and now their modern-day species restoration work. This covenant is being impacted by the widespread construction of dams across Nimiipuu traditional lands, prompting questions: Will the work of the Nimiipuu be enough? How can we help?

Meaningful Movies: Evergreen

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In February, Meaningful Movies Bellevue will screen Evergreen, from Bullfrog Films. In this film, we meet Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson, who have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. Through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), Edain and Erickson have monitored county applications for development and logging; challenged projects that violate state environmental law and led the way in science-based environmental public policymaking. In partnership with citizens and communities up and down Whidbey Island, they have helped keep trees standing and protected sensitive island ecosystems. Join us for this inspiring film and learn what is happening right here in Puget Sound to help protect our natural world. Plan to join via Zoom to find out what you can do to help support this work!

Earth Renewal Sharing Session

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Care about climate action, and what we at East Shore can do about it? Come share your ideas with us at the Earth & Climate Action Sharing session! The Earth and Climate Action Ministry is compiling input from all over our church communities on how we at East Shore can make an impact on our world in new, coordinated and powerful ways. We'll be having a general feedback sharing session after church on March 17. We want to hear from you, so it will be an interactive discussion. No presentations, just sharing common passions and purpose to heal the Earth

Climate Celebration

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

On April 21, after the Earth Day Service, the Earth and Climate Action Ministry invites you to join us for a Climate Action Celebration. This event will share our members' joint vision for East Shore climate action, intertwined with live original music and multimedia video of beautiful natural scenes. Music by John Chmaj and an all-East Shore ensemble. Come join us and help heal our planet!