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Switch - Film Screening

Premier Rhode Island Showing of the Environmental Film Switch


Jane Pickens Theater, 49 Touro Street Newport
6:00 pm film – 5:30 reception

No charge, but registration suggested:  aipc.eventbrite.com or sarah@aquidneckplanning.org.

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The AIPC, with support from rTerra and Rhode Island Wind Power, is hosting the premier Rhode Island screening of the 2012 environmental documentary Switch. 

Switch is co-produced by Dr. Scott Tinker, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, Director of the Advanced Energy Consortium and the State Geologist of Texas.  Join Dr. Tinker as he visits the world’s leading energy sites and gets straight answers from international energy leaders in 11 countries on 26 energy sites, including over 50 interviews from energy experts in renewables, fossil fuels, government, international companies and others.

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In the end, he lays out a path to our energy future that is both surprising and remarkably pragmatic.

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