Bedford Playhouse Announces Earth Week Lineup

By Greenwich Sentinel
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Bedford Playhouse is thrilled to announce Earth Week! This exciting lineup is aimed at inspiring our community to gain a deeper understanding of the environmental and ecological issues of the day and inspire action at a grassroots level and beyond to help preserve the planet

Saving Life on Earth: A Global Safety Net to Reserve Biodiversity Loss, Stabilize the Climate, and Prevent Future Pandemics
Tuesday, April 20 7:00PM

Presented by Dr. Eric Dinerstein

Since 2014, Dr. Eric Dinerstein has served as Director of the Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions program at RESOLVE and CEO of the WildTech@RESOLVE social impact enterprise. WildTech is producing innovative technologies by integrating AI into cryptic, low-power camera-based, near-real time alert systems to stop poaching, reduce illegal logging, and prevent human-wildlife conflict. Eric has helped create the conservation plans for many iconic places—including the Galapagos, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Himalayas, the panda mountains of China, and the northern Great Plains of Montana. He has conservation experience in many countries and has published widely on large mammal conservation. He is currently a co-author on a new paper to provide the scientific basis for a pragmatic approach to rewilding large mammal species to restore intact vertebrate assemblages globally. He is the author of several popular science books including: Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations; The Kingdom of Rarities (both Island press); The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Columbia University Press) and two middle-grade novels, What Elephants Know and A Circle of Elephants (both Disney*Hyperion).

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Greenlight/Youth Climate Action – Special Earth Day Program – Presented in Partnership with Bedford 2030
Wednesday, April 21, 7:00pm

Presented by Sarah Douglis, Bedford 2030

This special Earth Day event will uplift and highlight the youth of our community who are taking action on climate change. Through the lens of Bedford 2030’s Greenlight Award program, local high school students will share their climate action projects and talk about the future of the planet they are inheriting. The format for the event will be a short video introducing the Greenlight students and their projects followed by a student panel discussion with audience Q&A.

Bedford 2030’s Greenlight Award challenges students to brainstorm, plan, and execute advocacy or innovation ideas to catalyze behavior change and promote sustainability in their community.

Sarah Douglis is VP Board of Directors, Bedford2030 and is Chair of the Development Committee and also serves on the Greenlight Awards Committee. In addition, she received the honor from Bedford Magazine as one of the 2019 “ Bedford 25” celebrating residents who are dedicated, creative and influential in the community.

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Earth’s Development and the Need for Decarbonization
Thursday, April 22, 7:00pm

Q&A With Dr. Alex Halliday

Alex Halliday of the Earth Institute will discuss the development of the Earth and the critical need to decarbonize in order to address the climate challenge. Earth’s surface environment has changed dramatically over billions of years of development. Scientists have been modeling the climate for decades and sounding the alarm about global warming. The evidence now suggests that climate change is going to be worse than most scientists, let alone the wider public, had realized. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for decades. Therefore, much of this is effectively irreversible and will worsen without new technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere. This talk will finish with the challenges for the future of decarbonization, including the technologies and actions that are needed, and some of the reasons to be optimistic.

Alex Halliday is the Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He joined the Earth Institute in April 2018, after spending more than a decade at the University of Oxford, during which time he was dean of science and engineering.

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Outdoor Pop-Up Cinema: David Attenborough – A Life On Our Planet
Friday, April 23, 8:00pm

Join us on the Playhouse Lawn for one of two Earth Week screenings under the stars! Experience our al new 40 foot inflatable pop-up screen!