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Matt Damon Hosts "Plan B: Mobilizing To Save Civilization"
Mar 25th
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2011 –/WORLD-WIRE/– “Plan B:
Mobilizing to Save Civilization,” a documentary based on the book by environmental visionary Lester Brown, will be broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 10 p.m. Academy Award winner Matt Damon returns as on-camera host/narrator. Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Marilyn & Hal Weiner, “Plan B” is the 12th episode of the award-winning series Journey to Planet Earth, which reports on the most important environmental and sustainable development issues of the 21st century.
Matt Damon narrates Journey to Planet Earth
Appearing with Lester Brown are Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Friedman, former Governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, along with other scholars and scientists. Locations include: China, Japan, Korea, India, Italy, Turkey, Bangladesh, Zambia, Haiti, and the United States.
What makes “Plan B” significant and timely is that it provides audiences with hopeful solutions — a road map into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable sources plus realistic strategies to avoid the growing threat of global warming. View a clip at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLUEEGxlvlY
Journey to Planet Earth is one of the most successful environmental series in the world, with episodes broadcast in most major overseas television markets. The series currently yields a worldwide television audience of more than 75 million viewers per year. There are also more than 15,000 videos of the series in educational media libraries yielding an annual audience of approximately 1.2 million students. For information about corporate underwriting opportunities or the purchase of Journey to Planet Earth episodes for educational use please send an e-mail to screenscope@screenscope.com
or visit the series web site located at http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth
Here’s What’s Been Said About Journey To Planet Earth:
“The scope is wide, the photography compelling, the presentation is crisp. Take notice unless you’ve already booked passage to another galaxy.” LA Times
“Profoundly serious stuff, crucial information for us and our children and theirs. A continuing series that looks at the orb with fresh eyes, is unmistakably a wake-up call.” Newsday
“Don’t miss Journey to Planet Earth.” People Magazine
“Tonight’s Best TV – Journey To Planet Earth. Welcome back, Matt Damon! We’re glad to have you home again.” Entertainment Weekly
“Superbly illustrates the desperate need for a balance between the needs of people and the environment. An extraordinary production – a must buy for media libraries.” School Library Journal
“Lavishly shot, this series introduces worldwide environmental concerns to students and other interested viewers.” Booklist
“Plan B” is made possible by major grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Turner Foundation, and the Wallace Genetic Foundation, with additional funding from Park Foundation, Weeden Foundation, and the Campbell Foundation.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JourneytoPlanetEarth
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/journeytoplanetearth
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/j2planetearth
Downloadable photos at: http://www.pbs.org/pressroom
Contact:
Cara White
843.881.1480
mailto:cara.white@mac.com
Washington Village Progress Report for Nobo North Boulder
Mar 9th
-Steven Toot, VP of Construction
SENIOR COHOUSING:
Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation
by Chuck Durrett
Last year Americans drove 5 billion miles caring for seniors in their homes (Meals on Wheels, Whistle Stop Nurses, and so on). In our small, semi-rural county in the Sierra foothills, Telecare made 60,000 trips in massive, lumbering, polluting vans-buses – usually carrying only one senior at a time – schlepping a couple thousand seniors total over hill and dale to doctor’s appointments, to pick up medicine, or to see friends. In our cohousing community of 21 seniors, I have never seen a single Telecare bus in the driveway. In cohousing it happens organically by caring neighbors: “Can I catch a ride with you?”; “Are you headed to the drug store?”, etc. And this alternative is much more fun and inexpensive for all involved, and much less damaging to the environment. Wolf Creek Lodge, a new senior cohousing community under construction, has 30 units on 1 acre within walking distance of downtown Grass Valley, CA. population 12,000. Top of mind, one future household will be moving from a 20 acre lot, 9 miles from town, another from 15 acres, also 9 miles out of town, and another from 13 acres, 7 miles from town. These are young seniors planning not only to live more sustainably, but more fulfilling as well.
Bill Thomas, M.D. and prominent author on issues affecting seniors, describes our currently predominant scenario of caring for seniors as the “$3 trillion dollar dilemma.” The cost of care for the 78 million new senior/baby boomers “coming of age” in the next 20 years will be $3 trillion dollars more per year than it is now (and that is in a nation with a $13 trillion dollar GDP – to put it into perspective). It goes without saying, that the current pattern is not sustainable from an environmental, cultural or financial point of view.
President Obama has announced that for us to arrest global warming, we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 2% per year until 2050. It seems doable, but last year, carbon emissions increased by 1.4% – we are headed in the wrong direction. Given this situation, we’ve got to do something. We need to think collectively about how to set seniors up for success and to help them achieve their full potential into their last 20-30 years and how to set the environment up for success at the same time. Cohousing is for seniors who want to be a part of the solution.
SENIOR COHOUSING WORKSHOP APRIL 11-15, 2011
Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living, second edition published by New Society Publishers (www.newsociety.com) – and the type of communities it describes and helps to create – allows seniors to live lightly on the planet and to enhance their quality of life at the same time.
Boulder County gets ready for global warming
Jan 19th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Environmental News
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Public invited to comment on Climate Change Preparedness Plan
Draft to be discussed at meetings in Boulder and Longmont
Boulder County, Colo. – Boulder County is developing a Climate Change Preparedness Plan to help local residents and communities better prepare for changing environmental conditions.
A team of local consultants reviewed science pertinent to the Front Range and developed a list of recommendations for the community. The strategies outlined in the draft plan will be available for public review at two January meetings and for comment online until Feb. 24.
Anyone who lives or works in Boulder County is invited to provide feedback on the draft plan by mail, online, or at one of two public meetings:
Boulder
When: Tuesday, Jan. 24, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Boulder County Courthouse, third floor hearing room, 1325 Pearl St.
Longmont
When: Thursday, Jan. 26, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Boulder County Parks and Open Space, 5201 St. Vrain Road
A draft of the plan and a survey link are available on the plan’s webpage. Or visit www.BoulderCounty.org, click on the “Sustain” button and scroll to “Energy and Climate.”
For additional information, contact Sustainability Planner Lisa Friend at lfriend@bouldercounty.org or 303-441-3522.
Comments will also be accepted at P.O. Box 471, Boulder, CO 80306, Attn: BOCC Climate Change Preparedness Plan.
For assistance with accessibility, contact the Human Resources Division at 303-441-3508 at least 48 hours before either scheduled event.