GCC's "Green Efforts" Committee Offers Free Film to Community
October 29, 2008
Contacts:
Suzanne Higgins
suzanne.higgins@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3808
Patricia Rhodes Vogel
pr.vogel@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3014
Did you know that scientists say many marine animals are on the brink of extinction? If you are concerned and would like to know more, Glendale Community College will host a free showing of the PBS documentary State of the Ocean's Animals on Friday, Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. in the GCC Student Union, room SU-104E. This film is the tenth episode of a ten-part PBS series, Journey to Planet Earth.
As stated on the Journey to Planet Earth website, "Today, our oceans are fast becoming dead zones, and marine animals are telling us that something is going terribly wrong. Their mute pleas speak volumes about the unfolding drama. What was once ablaze with color, is rapidly becoming a world without life. The urgency to avoid the loss of the world's ocean animals presents us with enormous challenges. What we need now are the efforts of people everywhere–all those who are willing to find ways to strike the right balance between what we want and what nature can provide."
Animal protein for 1.8 billion people on our planet comes from the sea. And many scientists believe that we have already depleted 90% of the life therein. Deep Ocean Exploration and Research Scientist Sylvia Earle says, "in half a century we have lost on the order of 90% of the big fish in the ocean. We've eaten them. What we are really seeing now is the consumption of the final 10% of the world's fisheries."
State of the Ocean's Animals provides abundant evidence for the plight of the oceans and solutions being pursued. For more information, please see http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth/sop_oceans/index.html
For more information, contact Dr. Erik Gergus, GCC Biology, at erik.gergus@gcmail.maricopa.edu or at 623.845.3614.
The GCC Green Efforts Committee, Environmental Club, and STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) club are co-sponsoring this free film.
GCC is located at 6000 W. Olive Avenue in Glendale. The Student Union is on the south side of the campus, off Olive Avenue. Parking is free.
