Bedford Playhouse Earth Week: The Bedford Playhouse celebrates Earth Week with these three virtual events.

Tues, April 20: 7pm: Saving Life on Earth: A Global Safety Net to Reverse Biodiversity Loss, Stabilize the Climate, and Prevent Future Pandemics with 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.

Wed, April 21: 7pm: Greenlight/Youth Climate Action with Sarah Douglis:

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Moderated by Sarah Douglis, 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.

Thurs, April 22: 7pm: 

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In his talk, 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.