‘Earth Days’ – the film, music and discussion on Thursday, April 22 begins at 7 PM at OTCA, 5th and Main, Cottonwood.  Admission is free, donations for Sustainable Arizona.  More info: (928) 634-0940   www.oldtowncenter.org  

The ‘Earth Days’ Film Looks Back at Environmental Movement.

 The celebration of Earth Day is a call to action. Can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green.” Come enjoy a special film, music and discussion about the beginning of the environmental movement as John Neville and Sustainable Arizona present “Earth Days” at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood.   Author-poet James Bishop, an environmental advocate since the 1960’s, will be a special guest.  Mr. Bishop wrote the cover story for Newsweek Magazine on the first Earth Day in 1970 and worked in Washington for several presidential administrations. The event is part of the “Spice of Life” series at OTCA and admission is free, with donations accepted for Sustainable Arizona, a non-profit 501 C3 organization.   

Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring the film, Earth Days, looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement, from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. After the film, we talk together about what Earth Day means to us today as we face issues of global and local impacts.