Vancouver Peak Oil Meetup Group:

SNEAK PREVIEW - Don't miss this focus group screening of the rough cut
of the new eco-comedy, How to Boil a Frog.

Vancouver Peak Oil, Village Vancouver, and New City Institute, present this screening of How To Boil A Frog.

VANCOUVER ( July 23, 2009) — Meet Vancouver director, writer, Jon Cooksey, laugh, worry, and give us your opinion. The gist of the film is 5 problems around peak oil and climate change, and 5 solutions. It's fun, funny, and seriously worth watching.

Sat. Aug. 8, 1:30pm – 3:30pm - Doors open at 12:30pm

Pacific Cinémathèque
#200 - 1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 2L7

Admission is free
http://www.howtoboila...

How to Boil a Frog is an eco-comedy (documentary feature film) that mixes rapid-fire humor with hard-hitting facts to show the consequences of “overshoot” – too many people using up too little planet – and what it means for our future. With its upfront Everyman approach, world-class experts, and iconoclastic humor, How to Boil a Frog gives us the scoop on the imminent end of the world as we know it and 5 surprising ways that regular people like you and me can save civilization, while making our own lives better now.

HTBAF tells the story of a guy, who decided that he had to do something personally to make sure his 12-year-old daughter was going to have a future beyond living on a raft with the last polar bear. Being a pretty smart guy, and a successful TV writer/producer, he knew just what he wanted to say, how he wanted to say it, and where it would lead him…and turned out to be completely wrong about all of it.

North Shore resident, Jon Cooksey, was that clueless man. He started out by tackling global warming, but research and interviews with top experts from around the world revealed a much bigger picture than the one he started with. What he heard about from these people was a world in overdrive, where global warming, overpopulation, peak oil, diminishing natural resources and a system where "the privileged few rule" are all hyper-linked to the point where we can no longer address any one problem without tackling the whole gnarly mess. And if we didn’t tackle it – like, starting today – well, let’s just say you shouldn’t bother putting any appointments in your calendar after about 2012.

Facing this imminent catastrophe, what could possibly turn things around so Jon’s daughter and other people's kids – hell, so you and I would have a future? Was there any hope? Were there any solutions that could actually address this big picture, rather than just solving one problem and making all the others worse? And more importantly, how was it going to be funny?

In the course of making HTBAF, Jon started to discover people who didn’t have all the answers, but were awake to the big picture and had great IDEAS. Jon’s task became figuring out which ones were real and meaningful – meaningful like they’ll make not just a difference, but the difference -- and more importantly which were ones that everybody could do, even if they couldn’t afford a Prius. Plus one more condition: they had to be things that would make people’s lives better, so they’d actually want to do them. Unlike its enviro-movie predecessors, How to Boil a Frog puts the whole package together – solutions, psychology of change, the bigger picture of potentiation and blowback…and of course humor. Like Supersize Me before it, HTBAF makes it all personal: it’s a movie about an average guy trying to give his kid a future, who got changed in the process of figuring it out, and wanted to pass it on because his life got better and he’d like yours to be better too. And in the process we’ll end up making sure we have a future after all.