Books and Films Available for Community Use
Laney College Library
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Al Gore. Run Time 96 minutes. Library call number: DVD 181. [Donated to Laney College through Labor Studies by AIT in the Classroom]
- Green: The New Red, White and Blue. (2007) DVD, Run time: 65 minutes. Join Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist who travels the globe in a quest to unravel the tangled web of energy consumption. Friedman visits the front lines of a ‘green’ revolution that is just taking shape – from the offices of Internet giant Google to a new Wal-Mart prototype green superstore. Then, learn why it makes good business sense to go green. On this environmentally friendly adventure, watch Friedman find solutions to global warming as America embraces the idea that green is the new red, white and blue. [Donated to Laney College through Labor Studies by California Interfaith Power & Light]
- Kilowatt Ours, (2005) two versions on the DVD, one 38 minutes the other 64 minutes. A documentary by Nashville filmmaker Jeff Barrie, about mountaintop removal mining and how we can all help save mountains (and money!) by simple energy conservation methods around the house and in our communities. Barrie personalizes this in his film by demonstrating how he and his wife, on a limited budget in a rented apartment, took these steps themselves. Barrie is modest, but the savings realized from just a few energy-saving measures are anything but: the average home can save more than 8,000 pounds of coal per year, and save $600 for themselves on energy costs. He shows several inovations in businesses and school districts in the Southeast. Thanks to a recent grant, Barrie will put an energy savings tracking feature on the website next spring.
From Andrée Thompson, Eco-Art Instructor,
From Karin Hart, Labor Studies, Laney College
