Explore the wonders of our planet with this free weekly environmental film series celebrating our blue and green home: planet Earth. As part of our Color Our World summer library program, each Sunday we’ll screen a film that highlights the beauty of our world, the challenges it faces, and the inspiring efforts to protect it.

Whether you're passionate about oceans, forests, wildlife, or climate action, there’s something for everyone in this thought-provoking and family-friendly series. Come discover why our world is worth protecting—and how we all can help.

No registration required.

June 15: Ripples of Plastic– Sponsored by Gannon University’s Project NePTWNE

Guided by Dr. Sherri Mason and other regional voices, witness the vast extent of contamination pathways, effects of microplastics, and the unexpected toll on human health.

June 22: 1:30 PM SHOWING - Kiss The Ground – Sponsored by The Lake Erie Group (LKE) of the Sierra Club

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.

June 29: The Biggest Little Farm 

Filmmaker and novice farmer John Chester chronicles the eight-year quest he and Molly Chester went on when they traded city living for 200 acres of barren farmland in the foothills of Ventura County and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester's unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

July 13: Ripples of Plastic – Sponsored by Gannon University’s Project NePTWNE

Guided by Dr. Sherri Mason and other regional voices, witness the vast extent of contamination pathways, effects of microplastics, and the unexpected toll on human health.

July 20: Native seeds: supplying restoration

Filmed over four seasons, this documentary explores the people working to scale up the supply of native seeds to meet the growing restoration demand, weaving together footage with seed collectors, farmers, researchers, and land managers across the Western United States. We see the extensive scale of damage to vast landscapes and meet tenacious people who are finding creative, scrappy solutions to restore ecosystems.

July 27: The Need to Grow 

With only sixty years of farmable soil left on Earth the need to rethink how we use earth’s natural resources has never been more important. The Need to Grow takes an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement who are redesigning our future; an eight-year-old girl who challenges the ethics of a beloved organisation, a renegade farmer struggling to keep his land as he revolutionises resource-efficient agriculture, and an accomplished visionary inventor facing catastrophe in the midst of developing a game changing technology.

August 3: Ripples of Plastic – Sponsored by Gannon University’s Project NePTWNE

Guided by Dr. Sherri Mason and other regional voices, witness the vast extent of contamination pathways, effects of microplastics, and the unexpected toll on human health.

August 10: Chasing Coral – Provided by Exposure Labs
Chasing Coral follows a team of divers, photographers and scientists out to photograph the elusive process of coral bleaching, a phenomenon happening at an unprecedented rate around the world from warming ocean temperatures. The film took 3.5 years to make and features 500 hours of underwater footage and submissions from over 30 countries.

August 17: The Need to Grow 

With only sixty years of farmable soil left on Earth the need to rethink how we use earth’s natural resources has never been more important. The Need to Grow takes an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement who are redesigning our future; an eight-year-old girl who challenges the ethics of a beloved organisation, a renegade farmer struggling to keep his land as he revolutionises resource-efficient agriculture, and an accomplished visionary inventor facing catastrophe in the midst of developing a game changing technology.