EDF Climate Corps Blog: EDF Climate Corps in the News
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EDF Climate Corps fellows – right where they need to be
Victoria Mills | May 22, 2014
When the producers of Years of Living Dangerously – Showtime’s groundbreaking new series about climate change – were looking for a story of hope, they turned to EDF Climate Corps.
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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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Half of Top Green HBCUs Linked to EDF Climate Corps
Stephanie Kennard | April 23, 2014
This week, the world celebrated Earth Day with thousands of campaigns calling to sustain and save our planet galvanizing the world. The Building Green Initiative’s Top 10 Green Historically Black Colleges and Universities is one that caught our eye as half of the HBCUs on the list have engaged EDF Climate Corps fellows.
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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.
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A Summer of Living Dangerously: Showtime, Office Depot, Climate Corps, and Yale
Guest Author | February 20, 2014
Brendan Edgerton (Yale MBA/MEM ’15) didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he accepted the offer to be an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellowin the summer of 2013. In addition to the challenge of uncovering the right set of investment opportunities in energy efficiency for Office Depot, Edgerton’s every move would also be documented by Director James Cameron’s Showtime camera crews.