Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Special Film on Earth Day Arp. 22

A Sense of Wonder
A Sense of Wonder, a film about the life of Rachel Carson will screen on Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at Vancouver Island University Nanaimo Campus, Building 200, Room 203. Admission is by donation.

The film concerns Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it. A passionate advocate for the natural world and author of the book Silent Spring (1962), Scientist Rachel Carson's work marked the beginning of contemporary society's awareness that human actions can have inadvertant environmental consequences on a global scale.

Special guest speaker will be Dr. Jane Watson, from the Biology Department at Vancouver Island University, who career has focussed on Marine Ecology and Community Ecology.

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