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| Global Focus III: The New Environmentalists: Press Release |
For more information, contact: The Mill Valley Film Group (415) 332-0300. mvfg@aol.com
Robert Redford narrates Global Focus III: The New Environmentalists, the third annual installment of a half hour program featuring intimate portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists. These are true environmental heroes who have put themselves between corrupt governments, greedy corporations and other intimidating adversaries. Their goal: safeguarding the Earth's natural resources from shortsighted exploitation and unbridled pollution. Global Focus III airs Sunday, April 22 at 5:30 pm on KQED 9 (check local listings for date and time).
This year's stories feature Liberia, a resource rich country devastated by 14 years of civil war and rampant corruption; Papua New Guinea, where industrial logging has severely depleted and damaged tropical forests; China, whose rapid industrialization can wreak havoc on its fragile environment; Brazil, where people of the tropical forest must coexist with their natural environment; Ukraine, whose government ignored environmental laws and began construction on the world's most valuable wetlands to create a canal; and Kentucky, where a local man successfully convinced the Pentagon not to incinerate stockpiles of chemical weapons stored in multiple locations around the United States.
Global Focus illustrates how ordinary people are affecting extraordinary change. The New Environmentalists go up against formidable opponents, but have remarkable success in their individual campaigns to better their local environments and the planet as a whole.
Global Focus is presented by KQED Public Broadcasting, San Francisco through NETA.
Global Focus is funded by the Goldman Environmental Prize, the international award for grassroots environmentalists. www.goldmanprize.org
About KQED
KQED (KQED.org) is a service of Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc. (NCPB). KQED Public Television 9, one of the nation's most-watched public television stations during primetime, is the producer of local and national series such as Quest; Check, Please! Bay Area; Jacques Pepin: Fast Food My Way; and Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures. KQED's digital television channels include KQED HD, KQED Encore, KQED World, KQED Life and KQED Kids, and are available 24/7 on Comcast. KQED Public Radio, home of Forum with Michael Krasny, Pacific Time, and The California Report, is the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation with an award-winning news and public affairs program service (88.5 FM in San Francisco and 89.3 FM in Sacramento). KQED Education Network brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and the general public through workshops, community screenings and multimedia resources. KQED Interactive offers video and audio podcasts and live radio stream at KQED.org, featuring unique content on one of the most-visited station sites in public broadcasting.
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