Affiliated Events
The Hopkins Center for the Arts Summer Films Series presents The White House Effect, an award-winning documentary that reveals how a pivotal moment in George H.W. Bush's presidency altered the course of US climate-change policy.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College
Loew Auditorium (4 E. Wheelock Street, Hanover NH)
THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT (2024) explores the gripping drama that unfolded inside the George H.W. Bush White House after scientists warned the country for the first time that global warming was real and underway. Bush, who in 1988 ran as an environmental candidate, finds himself caught in the middle when his chief of staff John Sununu locks horns with EPA chief Bill Reilly over how to respond to the public’s growing environmental concerns. Ideological conservatives and industry power brokers line up behind Sununu as the forward-minded Reilly looks increasingly isolated. Meanwhile Bush faces mounting pressure to make a decision that will change the course of history.
Using only archival materials, the film tells a harrowing political story about the consequences of presidential power and its impact on how we deal with the climate crisis today.
THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT film does have a particular New Hampshire connection with the depiction of the undue influence of White House Chief of Staff John Sununu on national and global climate inaction at a time that was an inflection point in environmental history, especially in hindsight!
Join us for a 6:00 PM reception, 7:00 PM film screening, & a post film discussion panel, featuring:
Derek Walker, Executive Director of the Irving Institute for Energy & Society (moderator)
Sam Evans-Brown, Executive Director of Clean Energy New Hampshire
Erin Mayfield, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Co-hosted by the League of Conservation Voters, the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, the Dartmouth Sustainability Office and The Hopkins Center for the Arts’ Osher Summer Lecture Series.
Join UNH’s Sustainability Institute and Health & Wellness on September 26 for the 2025 Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series, ‘Human Health, Planetary Health, and What Sustains Us.’
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2025 Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series:
Human Health, Planetary Health, and What Sustains Us
Friday, September 26 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
UNH Memorial Union Building, Strafford Room, Durham NH
Free and open to all; attendees must register.
The Sustainability Institute and Health & Wellness are grateful to partner with the UNH Center for the Humanities to bring this event to our community. The Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer the University community and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. The University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities sponsors the programs. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Join Dartmouth College, NOAA, and Antioch University for, “Local Solutions: Bouncing Forward to Create Resilient Communities” on September 18 - 19 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
