April 10, 2011:
On Tuesday April 26th, Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and the upcoming Revenge of the Electric Car will speak in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. The talk begins at 8:00pm and doors open at 7:30. A question & answer session and will follow, also in the Chapel. The talk is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

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"How many lightbulbs does it take to plug in an electric car?"

Chris Paine will give an address that glides through the politics, personalities, and cold hard cash involved in the return of the electric car. Paine will speak about his role as the filmmaker who caught GM and others destroying thousands of cars with this "disruptive technology" in 2003. Eight years later, he's documenting the incredible return of electric cars for Revenge of the Electric Car, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on Earth Day 2011. This presentation will recap the challenges of the electric car industry then chart the reasons for its comeback.

Greenfire will screen Who Killed the Electric Car? in the Warch Campus Center cinema on Tuesday, April 19th at 8:30pm and on Sunday, April 24th at 6:30pm. For a map and directions to the venue, please click here.

Bio: Chris Paine is the writer/director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 before its release by Sony Pictures Classics, to become one of the most successful documentaries of the last five years. Revenge of the Electric Car is his latest film.

Chris has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now, and Science Friday on NPR. He has toured nationally to speak about electric cars and sustainable transportation at international venues including Princeton, Brown, Stanford, the Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, the James Baker III Institute in Houston, Google, and more.

On the entrepreneurial front, his technology company, Internet Outfitters, went public in 1999 as part of AppNet/CommerceOne and his firm Mondo-tronics provided materials for the Mars Pathfinder mission. Chris's activist work has included campaigns to stop nuclear testing in Nevada, freeway expansions in California, and preventing deforestation. His 21st century demonstration home "Marrakesh House" in Los Angeles hosts green events and charges its electric cars (and bikes) exclusively using solar power.

This event is sponsored by Greenfire, the Class of 1968 Peace and Social Activism Fund, the Class of 1965 Student Activities Grant, and the ERC Environmental Initiative Grant.

Please contact Patrick Miner for press inquiries.
patrick.b.miner@lawrence.edu. 616-813-2238.

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