Where there's a Will, there's a way

Sierra Club Sangamon Valley Group is hosting three energy movie screenings this month!

First, a campus screening of The Last Mountain, Wednesday, September 21, 7:00, at Lincoln Land Community College, Stephens Room.

The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. With Bobby Kennedy Jr. enlisted as a passionate force for preserving Coal River Mountain and the economic power of the fossil fuel industry twisting democracy to its advantage THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.

"Dirty Business: Clean Coal and the Battle for our Energy Future" will be shown in both Taylorville and Springfield.

In Taylorville Thursday, September 22, 6:00 at the Taylorville Public Library, 121 W. Vine St.

Then in Springfield Tuesday, September 27, 6:00 at Lincoln Library, Carnegie Room.

Half our electricity comes from coal, the largest single source of greenhouse gases. But it doesn't have to be that way. Featuring stories from China to West Virginia, Dirty Business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and explores the murky realities of "clean coal" technology. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film highlights the work of energy innovators and the viable, renewable alternatives they offer in an age of rapid climate change.