Escape from Affluenza, January 13

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Escape from Affluenza is a one-hour PBS special providing practical solutions to the problem of “affluenza” — an epidemic of stress, waste, over consumption and environmental decay. Escape from Affluenza shows how some Americans are calling a halt to keeping up with the Joneses and abandoning the consumer chase. The program is a sequel to the popular special, Affluenza which premiered on PBS in September, 1997.

Free local showing
Sunday, January 13
5:00 pm
Oregon Village Hall
117 Spring Street, Oregon, WI
(Enter at lower level across street from Oregon Bowl)
Free refreshments including local fare.

The discussion that follows the one-hour viewing of the DVD will include an opportunity for attendees to write down personal goals for living more sustainably in the coming year.

Sponsored by OWLS - Oregonians Working and Living Sustainably