Just got back from the eco film fest in Nevada City over the weekend and saw about 15 amazing documentaries. If you love film and ecopsychology, this is the place to go!

One of the films,made by a student at Stanford, was called, "There Once Was an Island"(http://www.thereoncewasanisland.com/). It featured a Polynesian community living on a small island (going back a thousand years) who are among the first places to experience the devastating effects of climate change.

The islanders know the water is rising and, in fact, when the film was being made nearly two years ago, experienced the first wave that reached all the way to some of their homes in the village, flooding them out and making them unlivable, and wiping out the school. These people have never lived anywhere else, don't know where else they would go to relocate, or how to live there once they got there. And, if memory resides in our cells, the island is the only home they know given their deep and lasting history there.

It's heartbreaking, and when I see what's happening in Brazil (and other places around the world), I am deeply saddened to feel the part I've played in this.

Check the website for the film and see the trailer--and the film if you get a chance. Highly recommended!