Years of Living Dangerously: The Biggest Story of Our Time

Our third showing in our Environmental Film Series is actually the first episode from the critically-acclaimed television series, Years of Living Dangerously.

Years of Living Dangerously: Episode 1, The Dry Season

Harrison Ford and endangered orangutan baby.

The showing is scheduled for Thursday, June 5th, 2014 at 6:30pm  at Trent River Coffee Company, 208 Craven Street, New Bern.

This groundbreaking documentary event series explores the human impact of climate change. Years of Living Dangerously combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of top Hollywood movemakers with the reporting expertise of Hollywood's brightest starts and today's most respected journalist.

Don Cheadle meets with residents of Planview, TX.

In Episode One: The Dry Season, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, and Thomas Friedman travel the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy. Beginning in Plainview, Texas where the town's meat-packing plant closes due to drought reducing the number of available cattle. Then traveling around the world to the rainforest of Indonesia where the demand for palm oil has resulted in massive deforestation, turning that country into one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Finally ending with an exploration of the wars in Syria and the Middle East, where the Pentagon has long seen climate change as a "threat multiplier," a "stressor" that can take a volatile political situation and push it over the edge.

Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Thomas Friedman discussing the war in Syria.

Following the film, will be a short presentation on the effects of climate change in the southeastern United States and specially eastern North Carolina based on the latest scientific data presented in the National Climate Assessment. The event will conclude with a forum, discussing what can be done locally to combat the effects of climate change both in the political arena and on the ground.


Included in this post are the trailer for the series, Years of Living Dangerously  airing on Showtime, as well as information on the most recent National Climate Assessment.

Carolina Nature Coalition's General Interest Meeting

Our next General Interest Meeting on Sunday, June 1st at 4:00pm in the Starbucks at Target located at 3410 Martin Luther King Blvd, New Bern. Check out our map below!

Please join us for our second informational session about joining and volunteering with Carolina Nature Coalition. We have all of 3 passionate volunteers and we need YOU to assist us in our community-based projects that raise public awareness of environmental issues and result in meaningful public action.

Add your opinion and your voice. We are open to new ideas and projects, so please come to our meeting and tell us about it!



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Sincerely,

Stella Smith
Member of Carolina Nature Coalition

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