Film on climate change adaption screening in April - Coastal Review Online

Film on climate change adaption screening in April | Coastal Review

PBS North Carolina is holding a special screening of a film featuring residents who are adapting to the changing climate.

“State of Change: Seeds of Hope” will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4. There is no charge to attend the event to be held in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh and virtually, but registration is required.

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Part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative, the film set to premier on PBS NC April 22 shows how “these innovators are facing the challenges of climate change with perseverance and ingenuity,” the release states.

Frank Graff, producer and host of PBS North Carolina’s “ Sci NC,” is to moderate a discussion with the following panelists to provide an up close look at climate change issues after the screening:

- Michelle Lotker, executive producer, “State of Change: Seeds of Hope.”
- Kathie Dello, director, NC State Climate Office, co-director, NOAA’s Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership.
- Mary Alice Holley, director of community innovation, Conservation Trust of North Carolina.
- Steve Kalland, executive director, NC Energy Collaborative.
- Ajulo Othow, founder and CEO of EnerWealth Solutions, attorney and board member, Center for Progressive Reform.
- Jacob Rutz, lecturer of agroecology, Department of Environmental Studies, Elon University.

The showing is being supported by the North Carolina Science Festival and in partnership with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.