Area residents are invited to a showing of the 2012 documentary Surviving Progress on Wednesday, March 6, at 7 PM in the library of the Andover Elementary/Middle School. The film is sponsored by the Kearsarge Area Transition Initiative and the Andover Energy Group.

Surviving Progress poses the challenge currently facing our world of how we best use finite resources to meet growing needs without destroying our environment or our civilization in the process. As Ronald Wright, whose best-selling A Short History of Progress inspired this film, says, “In the past, we could use up a region’s resources and move on. But if today’s global civilization collapses from over-consumption, that’s it. We have no back-up planet.”

The Andover Energy Group is an informal organization of volunteers interested in learning about renewable energy sources and energy-efficiency techniques for local homes, businesses, and institutions. The Kearsarge Area Transition Initiative encourages the nine towns in the Kearsarge area to develop a greater reliance on local resources – food, energy, and human resources in particular – to address the impacts of global issues such as economic insecurity, environmental instabilities, and dependence on non-renewable energy.

A discussion period will follow the film, and refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Susan Chase at 735-5135 or SRFChase@nullaol.com.