“Shifting Sands” at the Field Museum

“Shifting Sands” at the Field Museum

Don’t miss a special screening of the much anticipated documentary film Shifting Sands: On the Path to Sustainability followed by a panel discussion at The Field Museum on Saturday, May 7, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM. Field Museum collections from the Calumet region will...
Film Shares Vision of Region’s Sustainability

Film Shares Vision of Region’s Sustainability

“Every time I see the lake and the Indiana Dunes, they are breathtaking,” says Lee Botts, a leading environmentalist who has lived in the region for more than six decades. “It’s just so beautiful.” So beautiful, and so important, Botts says, that the region’s...
Shifting Sands Documentary Rocks Indiana Dunes Area

Shifting Sands Documentary Rocks Indiana Dunes Area

April 24, 2016, Chicago Suntimes, by Dale Bowman GARY, Ind.–Lee Botts got right to it Thursday evening at the world premiere of “Shifting Sands on the Path to Sustainability.’’ After producer-director Pat Wisniewski pulled 19 people on stage to thank them before the...

Environmental doc on Indiana Dunes premiering

April 21, 2016 | Kankakee Valley Daily Journal | by Robert Themer | “On the south shore of Lake Michigan, stunning natural beauty collides with heavy industry like nowhere else in the country,” Herscher native Tom Desch wrote as an introduction to a new...

Film explores the saving of Indiana Dunes

April 20, 2016 | South Bend Tribune | By Joseph Dits | As Chicago warded off industry from its Lake Michigan shore more than a century ago, oil companies looked east to the biologically diverse sand dunes of Indiana to build their refineries. John D. Rockefeller, the...