EDF Climate Corps Blog: News Commentary
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Bringing The Pope’s Climate Encyclical to Life, a Church at a Time
Nancy Buzby | June 24, 2015
Last week’s papal encyclical on climate change galvanized those of us who already see responsible stewardship for the earth as both a moral mandate and business imperative. In the 184-page document, Pope Francis calls for a sweeping overhaul of political, economic and individual practices to halt the degradation of the environment and protect our planet for the long term.
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Renewable Energy and Natural Gas: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy
Ellen Bell | May 23, 2014
The landscape of energy generation in the United States is transforming, although the necessity of this change and what the future of energy generation should look like are open to debate. This week’s episode of Years of Living Dangerously focused on America’s energy future, specifically natural gas and renewable energy as opportunities to move ourselves away from more carbon-intensive sources such as coal.
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Behind the Showtime Cameras with EDF Climate Corps Fellow Brendan Edgerton
Stephanie Kennard | May 23, 2014
EDF Climate Corps makes its small screen debut on Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series on climate change this Monday, May 26. All month, we’ve rounded up the three EDF Climate Corps fellows starring in the Showtime series for a behind the scenes look at filming with the Years Project. This time we're chatting with Brendan.
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Behind the Showtime Cameras with EDF Climate Corps Fellow Scott Miller
Stephanie Kennard | May 16, 2014
It’s almost time for EDF Climate Corps’ small screen debut on Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series on climate change. Leading up to the May 26th episode featuring three EDF Climate Corps fellows and host organizations, we’re rounding up the three EDF Climate Corps fellows starring in the Showtime series for a behind the scenes look at filming with the Years Project.
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We Can’t Address Economic Concerns Without Talking Climate Change
Jacob Robinson | May 15, 2014
The latest episode of Years of Living Dangerously takes a look at the political and often partisan constraints of advancing climate change policy and resiliency efforts. New York Times columnist Mark Bittman and actress Olivia Munn take the audience through thematically similar stories on opposite coasts of the U.S.
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Behind the Showtime Cameras with EDF Climate Corps Fellows
Stephanie Kennard | May 8, 2014
It’s almost time for EDF Climate Corps’ small screen debut on Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series on climate change. Leading up to the May 26th episode featuring three EDF Climate Corps fellows and host organizations, we’re rounding up the three EDF Climate Corps fellows starring in the Showtime series for a behind the scenes look at filming with the Years Project.
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Is your family divided on climate change?
Scott Wood | May 7, 2014
limate change skepticism and reality faced off in Sunday night’s (4th) episode of the Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously. While Leslie Stall, of 60 Minutes, toured the Arctic and witnessed firsthand the receding glaciers and melting sea ice, Anna Jane Joyner worked tirelessly to convince her father, a prominent Evangelical pastor, that climate change is real, happening now and driven by human activity.
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Stories from Two Islands Explain the Science and Politics of Climate Change
Chris Riso | April 30, 2014
This week's episode of Years of Living Dangerously featured reporting from two islands central to the debate on climate change. In Staten Island, New York, one of the communities hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy, MSNBC correspondent Chris Hayes followed in the wake of the storm to share a story of personal tragedy and political reality.
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Terminating Climate Change
Serena Mau | April 23, 2014
Deforestation was the focus of Sunday night’s episode of Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime series highlighting the biggest story of our time – climate change. In the episode, we followed Harrison Ford to different regions of Indonesia, including Tesso Nilo National Park, where forests are being destroyed to grow palm oil plantations.
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Want to Market the Realities of Climate Change? Get a Handsome Vampire
Nancy Buzby | April 16, 2014
If you don’t get where I’m going with this thread, you may have been under a rock for the past week, because when Hollywood talks about climate change, all kinds of new audiences listen.