Neighborhood Notes

Attend a FREE First Thursday screening of two locally-produced documentaries about air pollution and health.... Filmmakers will be there to answer questions.

On July 3rd see a showing of Savannah Teller Brown's new documentary, "Living Diesel" and Sharon Genasci's documentary, "What's In Our Air?" at the Screening Room on NW 19th Street (925 nw 19th) with snacks and a no-host bar. This is an opportunity to learn about and discuss the problems we have with air pollution in our neighborhoods.

Living Diesel is a new 18-minute documentary about pollution in the air we breathe from the common diesel engine. Diesel is used in most commercial trucks, and in a variety of vehicles, including school busses and stationary diesel engines on heavy equipment. The EPA identified these engines as a source of serious chemical and particulate pollution. Living Diesel explores the effects of this pollution on human health and the resolutions being explored and implemented, with the help of new government policies and the good will of some private companies.

What's in our Air? is a half-hour program filmed in the Seattle, Portland and San Francisco areas. It looks at the health impacts of air pollution in residential neighborhoods and documents neighbors' activism to counter the effects of air pollution. It won a gold medal at the Houston International Film Festival.

A wine and beer bar will provide no-host refreshments and snacks. The program is presented by the Health & Environment Committee, a subcommittee of the Northwest District Association. For more information, contact Neighbors West Northwest at (503) 823-4288.