LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, November 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Loyola Marymount University on Wednesday, Nov. 16, offered a discussion and free public screening of the documentary “California’s Watershed Healing,” which examines the precarious conditions of the state’s forests, and offers solutions for sustainable land management and restoration of the Sierra Nevada watershed.


Trailer: https://vimeo.com/721597803


The National Integrated Drought Information System reports that 99.76% of California is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought. The Sierra Nevada watershed, which supplies water to more than 75% of California, has been neglected and mismanaged for decades, according to the Little Hoover Commission. Further compounding these issues is the climate crisis that has impacted the forest ecosystem and snowpack.


https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/california-nevada-drought-status-update-8-19-22


“The critical nature of water stewardship in California is central – to our economy, our communities and to our health and well-being,” said Jeffrey Thies, director of LMU College of Business Administration’s Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainability. “It is an honor to showcase this compelling documentary from James Thebaut and The Chronicles Group on the condition of California’s most precious resource and highlight pathways to its stewardship and healing.”


Guests watched “California’s Watershed Healing” and participate in a conversation immediately afterward with Thebaut, the film’s executive producer and president and founder of the international nonprofit The Chronicles Group; Doug Walters, chief sustainability officer and chief resiliency officer for the city of Los Angeles; and LMU President's Professor of Biology Eric Strauss, executive director of the Center for Urban Resilience, or CURes.


The Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainability co-sponsored the event with LMU CURes.


WHAT: LMU hosted a screening of “California’s Watershed Healing,” followed by a discussion with the film’s executive producer, James Thebaut, and climate experts.
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. A reception followed.


WHERE: LMU’s Hilton Center for Business, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045. The screening took place in Hilton 100 Auditorium.


MORE INFO: Attendees RSVP'd for the free event here. View a trailer of “California’s Watershed Healing” here.
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LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The State of Florida clearly had no idea that Hurricane IAN would result in a worst-case situation. Lessons from the catastrophe include accepting the existence and severity of the climate crisis as well as the fact that Florida's current urban development is haphazard, fragmented, and at odds with the reality of the world's ecological system.
The majority of construction in the United States has been built to withstand earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. But as we've discovered recently construction has not been adaptable to the evolving impact of the climate crisis.

The majority of housing development firms have discovered that it is absolutely foolish to construct in a floodplain, and all landowners should follow the same reasoning. But many people who have experienced a flooding disaster and lost everything opt to rebuild in the same area because they believe it couldn't happen there again.
The reality of the concept and approach of regional environmental planning and design is mostly rejected or disregarded by regions across the nation and around the world, and they never give it a second consideration. Many urban communities in the United State, including Houston, Texas, take great satisfaction in rejecting the concept of planning as a whole.

A thorough grasp of the ecological system, the geographic and topographical landscape, the terrain, and the territory and design of the urban landscape that must be created accordingly are necessary for regional environmental planning and design. It is clear that during the IAN flooding, numerous streets in southern Florida became rivers, and alligators and snakes from the Everglades dangerously overflowed into the neighborhoods.

James Thebaut, award-winning Executive Producer states, "I've been advised by citizens of India that when the annual Monsoons sweep through the country dangerous snakes and other unwanted species flourish in the urban areas. Until the industrial world excepts reality and seriously begins to eliminate the dangerous, dire, hazardous life-threatening existence of fossil fuels the intensity of the Climate Crisis will continue to be a threat to the existence of humanity, and ultimately the planet will need to exist without its human population."

Thebaut concludes, "Government officials must act quickly to acknowledge the crucial relevance of regional environmental planning and design and to incorporate the process into efforts to prepare for the unavoidably catastrophic effects of the climate crisis. Florida is amidst a tragedy, but Babcock Ranch is an oasis. It is a community that was planned and built using "renewable energy," and Environmental planning and design and it completely withstood the IAN disaster."
Please see the link to a 60-Minutes in-depth news piece on the development which is an example of current and future rational designing with nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDe_UPznxk
In addition to the Babcock Ranch example, all of the Los Angeles region water Utilities are working together to implement Water Reuse throughout the region. This is critical because of LA Region's evolving crisis to receive imported water from the Colorado River and Northern California. These critical water sources will soon be unavailable to the LA Region because of the climate crisis, drought, evolving population growth, lack of adequate infrastructure, and other factors.

The Chronicles Groupjust created the following: https://vimeo.com/761155635/e28efe4b53
James "Jim" Thebaut is the President/Founder, Executive Producer/Director of The Chronicles Group. The Chronicles Group is an international nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization comprised of communicators, scientists, policy leaders, professionals, and academics whose mission is to accurately convey the existential threats confronting Earth, in the 21st century. The Chronicles Group began in 2000, and operates as a tool for public advocacy, and takes an aggressive, issue, and solution- based approach to documenting wide-ranging and urgent challenges humankind is currently facing, including climate crisis, overpopulation, human rights violations, biodiversity loss, pandemics, weapons of mass destruction, and the water/ energy/ food security nexus.
James is a frequent speaker at conferences, the United Nations and the US Congress; and continues his drive to inform the world and initiate positive movement where his work continues to shape holistic global sustainability policies.

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Jim Thebaut, Acclaimed Director and Executive Producer, says Southern California Watershed Areas will, without needed healing, run out of the water people need.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, October 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Los Angeles will soon be host to the important documentary on the problems with California’s watershed areas and how to fix them, ‘California Watershed Healing’. On October 15th at 4pm there will be a free screening of ‘California Watershed Healing’. Audiences will be enlightened about the conditions of Southern California’s forests and watersheds and how to heal them.

The Warner Grand Theatre at 478 West 6th Street in San Pedro, California will be showing the insightful documentary.

Activist, Director, and Executive Producer, Jim Thebault says this about ‘California Watershed Healing’:
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“Water Utilities and the Sanitation District within the LA region have recognized the reality imported water from Northern California and the Colorado River will soon be unavailable. (The reasons transcend drought, Climate Crisis, population growth and lack of adequate infrastructure and regional planning).
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Facing existential environmental threats, California is “the canary in the coal mine”

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A special screening of the highly anticipated sequel “California’s Watershed Healing” is set for Sept. 8, according to James Thebaut (pronounced “tee-bow”), whose latest documentary goes beyond reporting the dark and dangerous state of the world’s environment to shine a light on some reasonable solutions.

Thebaut is the president, founder, executive producer, and director of The Chronicles Group, an international non-profit that “takes an aggressive, issue- and solution-based approach to documenting these wide-ranging and urgent challenges humankind is currently facing,” according to its website. Thebaut’s latest work is the sequel to a documentary that was broadcast on PBS and explained watersheds, why they are vitally important, and the serious environmental problems they are facing.

​“My approach to doing documentaries is to take the audience to some place they’ve never been before, and educate and inform them,” says Thebaut, whose public speaking engagements have included the United Nations and the US Congress.
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LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 1, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The world is currently experiencing a global climate emergency. This is predominately caused by vehicle emissions, fuel oils, natural gas to heat homes, and importantly a worldwide spread of fossil fuels in providing energy for the nonrenewable energy sectors which are causing atmospheric pollution and profound public health impacts and causing millions of deaths. Concurrently it is causing violent unpredicted weather patterns across the globe including heat stress, wildfires, flooding, famine, poverty, and unprecedented degradation of the worlds ecological system.

​On June 30th the Supreme Court made a perilous and extremely consequential decision that will have severe public health and climate crisis impacts throughout the planet.

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, June 23, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- James “Jim” Thebaut, Executive Producer of Turning Back the Doomsday Clock Project, is urging action on immediate solutions to the world’s numerous global crises.

WHY ACTION IS CRUCIAL NOW
Thebaut explains, “The significant alteration of the earth's ecological system and intense global conflict reflect the dangerous state of the planet. Severe ecological transformations are compromising and impacting the earth's land, air, and water systems as well as humanity's very existence. These interconnected perilous geopolitical issues have created an evolving probable global catastrophe and the possibility of humanity facing mass extinction.

Currently, according to Thebaut, the planet is confronted with the following specific realities which are dramatically impacting international security.”

James "Jim" Thebaut, President/Founder, Executive Producer/Director