Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
Film Screening and Conversation
15.11.2024 at 14:00
Organizers: Ufuk Özdağ
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
Join our screening of the Emmy-award winning documentary Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. The documentary focuses on twentieth-century American conservationist Aldo Leopold, who is often seen as the father of wilderness preservation, wildlife management, and ecological restoration, as well as an influential figure in modern environmental ethics.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with the executive director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Buddy Huffaker, who will join the event online from Wisconsin, and RCC Visiting Scholar Ufuk Özdağ. Ufuk is also the Turkish translator of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There.
Event Schedule:
| 14:00 | Screening of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time |
| 15:00 | Conversation About the Movie and the Life and Legacy of Aldo Leopold |
About the Movie:
On 27 October 2024, the Aldo Leopold Foundation celebrated the 75th birthday of A Sand County Almanac, a timeless book translated into sixteen languages and read by millions of people around the world. The poetic documentary Green Fire, based on Aldo Leopold’s life and his groundbreaking book A Sand County Almanac, explores Leopold's experiences as he builds a “land ethic” and visits key people and places. As the first full-length, high definition documentary ever made about the legendary conservationist, the film explores Leopold’s life in the first part of the twentieth century and the many ways his land ethic idea continues to be applied all over the world today.