Join The Land trust of Virginia, Goose Creek Association, and the Virginia League of Conservation Voters at this viewing of Plastic Paradise on March 6, 7pm at The Hill School, Sheila C. Johnson Performing Arts Center , 130 S. Madison Street, Middleburg. Doors open at 6:30.RSVP to info@goosecreek.org
With so many people involved in Loudoun County’s Monarch efforts, it’s a delight to shine a spotlight on some of them, so we thought it would be purposeful to share a few exciting and diverse efforts coming out of Loudoun county. Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy joined in the extraordinary citizen science and conservation effort for the […]
If you haven’t, I highly recommend it – in fact, everyone I know (adults, kids and everyone in between) who has gone to see it raves about it! It’s more than a movie, it’s a really cool 3D experience – like floating with the butterflies! The story and the facts you come away with are […]
Wonderful new movie made through Disney by Louie Schwartzberg on pollinators that features Meryl Streep. This is not animation, it is exquisite real time lapse video of flowers, bees, hummingbirds. Monarch butterflies are featured too — simply amazing footage! Read about it here. Watch clips and teasers here. WINGS OF LIFE presents the unsung heroes […]
Join us for a free showing of Secret Pond! Secret Pond: A Fairy Shrimp Documentary — Thursday, March 7, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Naturalist and filmmaker Brian La Fountain has been fascinated with fairy shrimp – tiny crustaceans that live in seasonal ponds – since he was a boy. With Sweet Briar’s naturalist-in-residence, Mike Hayslett, […]
On Friday, October 12, at 7:00 p.m., the Goose Creek Association (GCA), the Land Trust of Virginia (LTV), the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust (NVCT), and the Hill School Alumni Association will host a free screening of a new film called Green Fire, the first full-length, high definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo […]
GreenFlik: Truck Farm ― Wednesday, June 13, 7:30 p.m. at the Tally Ho Theatre in Leesburg. Truck Farm tells the story of a new generation of quirky urban farmers. Using green roof technology and heirloom seeds, filmmaker Ian Cheney plants a vegetable garden on the only land he’s got: his Granddad’s old pickup. Once the mobile […]
Gasland ― Wednesday, April 11 at the Tally Ho Theatre in Leesburg. The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox […]
I wish I could embed this video on the blog but it’s not that kind of link so….. here’s the website: http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html This is an exquisite 7-minute clip on so much more than pollination. The presenter, Louie Schwartzberg, asks the question, “What motivates the pollinators?” Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch offered the explaination, “Nothing lasts […]
Have you seen it? It’s EXCELLENT!! I barely know how to describe what it’s about because there’s so much to it. It’s about dirt. It’s about society and religions. It’s about forests, trees and fields, farming, and community. It’s international and national. It’s about war and peace, poverty and contentment. It’s about connections. It’s about sustainability. […]