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Thursday May 24, 2012: Sierra Club Yolano Group Spring Potluck and Film
The Sierra Club Yolano Group will hold our spring potluck dinner at 7 PM on Thursday, May 24 in the Blanchard Community Room at the Yolo County Library, 314 E. 14th St., Davis. The evening’s film presentation will be the highly acclaimed documentary movie, “Mother…Caring for 7 billion”.
This film gently brings to light a tough issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian and social crises - population growth. In 2011 the world population reached 7 billion, a startling seven-fold increase since the first billion occurred 200 years ago and a doubling since the 1960s.
The film illustrates both the overconsumption and the gender inequity side of the population issue by following Beth who comes from a large American family of 12 and has adopted an African-born daughter. Beth travels to Ethiopia where she meets Zinet, the oldest daughter of a desperately poor family of 12. Zinet has found the courage to break free from thousand-year-old-cultural barriers, and their encounter will change Beth forever.
Please bring your favorite dish to share and, to help us strive to make this a “zero waste” event, please bring your own plates, cups, utensils, and a cloth napkin. The Yolano group will provide beverages.
The meeting is open to the public. For more info contact Alan Pryor, 530-758-5173 or
(Please note we will not meet on the 3rd Thursday this month)
