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Topic: Robert Stone's Earth Days documentary features Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-13-2009 11:21 PM
   
The New York Times reports that well-known director Robert Stone's Earth Days, a film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States, was recently given the honor of being chosen as the closing film at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. In "Earth Days," Mr. Stone said he wanted to tell the story of how America awakened to the environmental crisis. The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, is considered by many to be the start of the environmental movement in the United States, and it galvanized ordinary people to get involved in saving the environment.He tells the story through the lives of nine people who made a major contribution to the environmental movement, including the entomologist Paul R. Ehrlich, whose teenage years were spent in Maplewood and who is known for his work on population growth, and Rusty Schweickart, a Neptune native and former astronaut who became California's energy commissioner. "Earth Days" will be released in theaters on Earth Day, April 22. After a yearlong theatrical run, it will be shown on "American Experience" on PBS. | |
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