Call It Home: Searching for Truth on Bolinas Lagoon

Call it Home: Searching for Truth on Bolinas Lagoon celebrates the beauty and importance of the world famous Bolinas Lagoon, explores the issues behind a decades-long community debate to understand the forces affecting its future, and seeks to inspire people everywhere to love and respect nature.

The lagoon has been silting up, getting noticeably shallower, and opinions on what to do about it range from large scale dredging to no action at all. The local community has struggled for many years to reach a consensus for action. The basic issue remains the same: what actions to take, if any, to effect change on the lagoon.




The rise of national environmental consciousness in the 70's literally began in Northern California, and to some degree, with efforts to preserve Bolinas Lagoon. Call it Home: Searching for Truth on Bolinas Lagoon, is a testament to the effectiveness of patient democratic debate and concerned activism. At first glance it's a small local story, but it is also clearly a microcosm that resonates with important environmental issues that are currently debated in local communities across our nation and around the world.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• lagoon
• environment
• activism
• democracy
• nature
• bolinas
• stinson
• beach
• coast
• coastal
• silt
• dredging
• community
• ocean
• california

[sandyabernathy]

My Uncle, Frank Pepper, said that the lagoon would eventually become a marshland in time. Already the waters are drying up. When I was there as a child, water was plentiful in the lagoon.

[OceanFilmFestival]

Catch this film on the big screen at the 6th San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, February 19-22,2009! More info at oceanfilmfest[dot]org.