Hot Water is the fourth (and final) film of our annual Better World Film Series.

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When you were growing up, how many people did you know who had cancer?

How many do you know today?

Filmmakers Lizabeth Rogers and Kevin Flinttravel to South Dakota following a story about uranium contamination—only to discover that the problem flows much farther and runs much deeper than they could have imagined.

Three years and thousands of miles later, Hot Water tells the story of those impacted by uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the subsequent contamination that runs through our air, soil and—even more dramatically—our water.

From Fat Man and Little Boy to Duck and Cover, we believed it was safe to eat, drink and breathe in the shadow of the atomic age.

Hot Water offers this question: Are the thirty-eight million people in the American Southwest aware that their water supply is filtered through 16 million tons of radioactive waste lying on the banks of the Colorado River?

Our ground water, air and soil are contaminated with some of the most toxic heavy metals known to man, and the subsequent health and environmental damage will take generations and 100's of billions of dollars to heal.

Follow Liz, Kevin and their team as they travel the American West and expose uranium mining and our nuclear legacy for what it is, and for what it's left behind.

Hosted in partnership with the NAU Sustainable Communities Masters Program.

The third movie in our annual Better World Film Series.

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The new documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water.

The film is a tribute to people like Justin Knopf, a fifth-generation Kansas farmer revolutionizing industrial scale agriculture to rebuild the fertility, biodiversity and resilience of his soil, and Dusty Crary, a fourth-generation Montana rancher who forged alliances between cattlemen, federal agencies, hunters and environmental groups to protect the Rocky Mountain Front.

Based on a book by best-selling author Miriam Horn of Environmental Defense Fund, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman was directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Susan Froemke and Emmy winner John Hoffman, and narrated by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw.

The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and debuted on the Discovery Channel in August 2017.

Hosted in partnership with Diablo Trust.

GMO OMG is the second film of our annual Better World Film Series.

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Want to know more about the ongoing GMO debate? Join us for the second film of this year's annual Better World Film Series to learn about it! This is in hopes to prepare everyone for the GMO Community Debate that will follow on Oct. 23! Are GMO's good? Bad? Dangerous? Safe? Decide for yourself!

GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his family’s table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of agra-giant Monsanto, from which he is unceremoniously ejected. Along the way we gain insight into a question that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what's on your plate?

Hosted by the NAU Green Jacks and Green NAU

Food Evolution is the first film of our annual Better World Film Series.

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Prepare for the Oct 23rd debate on GMOs by watching some documentaries on the subject! This is one of two takes we will be showing on GMOs.

". . . Food Evolution is set amidst a brutally polarized debate marked by fear, distrust and confusion: the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves, to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, Food Evolution wrestles with the emotions and the evidence driving one of the most heated arguments of our time."

Food Evolution shows how easily misinformation, confusion and fear can overwhelm objective analysis. How do we ensure that our food supply is safe, and that everyone has enough to eat? How do we feed the world while also protecting the planet? Has genetic engineering increased or decreased pesticide use? Are GMO foods bad for your health? And, most importantly, what data, evidence and sources are we using to approach these important questions?

Hosted by the NAU Green Jacks & Green NAU

EC Meeting

Thursday, September 21:  1:00 – 2:15 @ ARD (Bldg. #56) Large Pod

Come to our first official Environmental Caucus meeting of the year.  We’ll take some time for introductions and get to know each another, discuss upcoming events and announcements, and some goals for the year. Take your lunch break with us! All faculty, staff, students, and community members are welcome.

First Meeting of the Year

Tuesday, September 5: 6-7 p.m. @ Kaibab Room in the Fieldhouse 

Hosted by the Green Jacks

Come and meet some of the students involved in the Green Jacks- the student-run environmental club on campus! The Green Jacks are consistently involved in the Culture of Sustainability that NAU. Learn how to get involved and meet some new people!

Green NAU is excited to announce an evening with Dr. Vandana Shiva!

In 2003, Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental ‘hero’, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators in Asia. In November 2010, Forbes Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as one of the Seven Most Powerful Women on the Globe. 

Dr. Vandana Shiva is an author, activist and scientific advisor who focuses on global food security and environmental sustainability. Dr. Shiva combines intellectual enquiry with activism, and her work spans teaching at universities worldwide to working with farmers in rural India. Her books The Violence of the Green Revolution and Monocultures of the Mind, pose essential challenges to the dominant paradigm of non-sustainable, industrial agriculture. Through her books Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest and Water Wars, Dr. Shiva outlines the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate-led globalization. 

This event is open to all NAU students, faculty, staff and the general Flagstaff community.

Debate for a Better World is part of the Better World Seminar Series. These are hosted by the NAU Green Jacks with the purpose of spreading awareness, sparking discussion, and formulation solutions to the multitude of environmental issues we face.

Title: Diet for a Small Planet: Is eating meat ethical? 

• Affirmative defends the topic. Affirmative supports, “Yes, eating meat is unethical.”
• Negative disputes the topic. Negative support, “No, eating meat is not unethical.”
• Kim Curtis, Alison Adams, and the NAU Speech and Debate Team

Bring your opinions, questions, and curiosity to this debate! 

This is a free event with free pizza! 

Hosted by the Green Jacks and the NAU Speech and Debate Team.

The SESES Seminar #9 will be presented by Rebecca Best from the Northern Arizona University. She will present a talk titled:

Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Trait Variation In Aquatic Communities

The seminars are held in Building 19, Physical Sciences, Room 103. Refreshments will begin at 3:45pm. Please try to bring your own mug for coffee or tea.

Abstract:

Biological diversity has important consequences for the ways that ecosystems function, but we are only beginning to understand how to effectively measure the specific differences among and within species that control their ecological impacts. This understanding is especially critical in light of global change scenarios, as some species will be much more likely than others to sustain ecosystem functioning under rapid changes in the temperature and distribution of aquatic habitats. Importantly, the ability to understand, predict, and conserve future biodiversity is rooted in the past, as both deep-time and rapid contemporary evolution shape the functional contributions and ecological resilience of key species. I will explore ways ecology and evolution can be combined to improve our understanding of aquatic systems now and in the future using work on invertebrates and fish in both marine and freshwater systems. 

The Better Word Seminars are a lecture series that the NAU Green Jacks, sustainability club, put together with the purpose of spreading awareness, sparking discussion, and inventing solutions to the multitude of environmental issues we as society face. For this particular seminar the topic is Environmentalism in Art, Film, and Entertainment.

• There will be a mini art show displaying student artwork before and after the seminar.
• Free food and beverages provided. 
• This is a free event.

Our Speakers for this seminar are: 

• Tom Patin (Director of the School of Art and Professor of Art History) -speaking about, "the design of national parks and the implications that has for park visitors as well as for environmental advocacy."

• tephen Shuster (Professor of Invertebrate Zoology Department of Biological Sciences) - speaking about, "the consistent theme of horror movies about enraged invertebrates, giant or otherwise; that theme is, that humans have injured or infuriated Nature by their insensitivity toward the environment."
• Sean Parson (Professor in Politics and International Affairs and Sustainable Communities) - speaking about, "Post-Apocolpytic Film/TV and the relationship between these works and contemporary cultural anxieties plus the fear around collapse, ecological crises, etc."