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CEO SPOTLIGHT
by gpbdigital
PBS Launches Unprecedented Environmental and Climate Programming Initiative.
by GPB CEO Teya Ryan
PBS has announced the launch of an unprecedented environmental and climate programming initiative kicking off in April for Earth Month that promises to bring together the very best in science, history and news programming in 2023 and beyond. Program highlights include:
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “THE SUN QUEEN” | APRIL
Chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes designed and built the world’s first successfully solar-heated home in 1948. Along the way she was undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues at MIT.
CHANGING PLANET II | APRIL
In its second season, Changing Planet revisits six of our planet’s most vulnerable ecosystems and catches up with the inspiring people introduced in the first series — scientists and local experts fighting to safeguard their communities and wildlife, charting the progress of their game-changing environmental projects.
NOVA “CLIMATE ACROSS AMERICA” CAMPAIGN | APRIL
This spring, NOVA will lead a national campaign spotlighting how climate change is affecting communities across the country and the innovative solutions being implemented to address the climate crisis. The campaign includes two programs. The first, “Weathering the Future,” explores the impacts on the U.S. from a changing global climate, from longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafires and multiyear droughts. The second, “Chasing Carbon Zero,” identifies the most likely real-world technologies that can help the U.S. attain its climate change goal of achieving 100% zero carbon pollution by 2050.
HUMAN FOOTPRINT | JULY
This six-part documentary series hosted by biologist and Princeton University professor Shane CampbellStaton, explores how humans have transformed the planet.
EVOLUTION EARTH | FALL
Traveling to extreme locations, this fivepart series meets animals and people on the front lines of climate change and look at how Earth is evolving at superspeed.
Look for these programs and more on GPB, including returning series such as Season Two of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston, climate-focused programs from NATURE and journalistic storytelling from Frontline and PBS Newshour
