"This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home" is focus of lecture and film series


A series of lectures on "This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home," will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 319 S. 5th St., Grand Forks, 775-7955.

Lectures are:
* "Environmental Change: The Perfect Moral Storm," 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, International Earth Day, with George Seielstad, director, Northern Great Plains Center for People and the Environment, and senior advisor to the UND president.

* "Global Warming: Global Problem and Personal Actions," 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 27, Dexter Perkins, professor of geology, 2006 Sierra Club national honoree and environmental advocate.

Films are:
* "An Inconvenient Truth, A Global Warning," 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 3.
* "Kilowatt Ours, A Plan to Re-Energize America," 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 10.

All events are free and open to the public.
-- Linda Gunderson, Development, NDMOA, lmgunderson@ndmoa.com, 777-5377