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THE EXPERIENCE

We welcome back local filmmaker and producer Barbara Bernstein and her film Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions which tells the stories of people living in the crosshairs of the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions including renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewable natural gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage and carbon offsets. Following the film Barbara will lead a discussion. 

ON SCREEN: Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions

2025. Directed by Barbara Bernstein. Runtime: 55 minutes.

As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos, there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions, or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions—renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewable natural gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage and carbon offsets. Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions tells stories of people living in the crosshairs of these proposals, working to expose the dangers that these projects pose to their lives, homes, communities and the planet. In contrast to fossil fuel industry solutions, the documentary examines the need to implement verified and trusted renewable energy sources (wind, solar and geothermal), energy conservation and nature-based carbon capture and storage solutions that take advantage of natural carbon sinks such as old growth forests and wetlands.

ON STAGE: 

Barbara Bernstein (Director) – Producer Barbara Bernstein is a musician, composer, performance artist, radio producer and filmmaker. Besides her recent documentaries “Chasing Chimeras” and “Once a Braided River,” her award-winning radio documentaries, internationally broadcast on public radio stations, include two pieces about the struggle to stop the Pacific Northwest from becoming a fossil fuel export hub: Holding the Thin Green Line and Sacrifice Zones; Sculpted By Fire (the role of fire in shaping western forests and sustaining healthy forest ecosystems); Salmonlands (the cultural significance of diminishing salmon runs in the Northwest) and Rivers That Were (the industrialization of the Colorado and Columbia Rivers). She is currently working on a new documentary about liberating the culverted creeks that flow under Portland’s Industrial sacrifice zone along the Willamette River.

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