{"id":559,"date":"2009-03-17T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:31:55","slug":"planet-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/03\/17\/planet-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-572\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/03\/planet_forward_logo.gif\" alt=\"planet_forward_logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>The creators of a new PBS program want your opinions about the future of energy and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Part online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/yourviews\">interactive discussion<\/a>, and\u00a0part television broadcast, <em>Planet Forward<\/em> is looking for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/contributors\">regular folks<\/a> as well as experts\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/pages\/submissions-guidelines\">submit <\/a>written and video commentaries making a case for how the United States should deal with its current and future energy challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Emmy-award winning CNN reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/sesno.frank.html\">Frank Sesno<\/a>, the television broadcast, which airs April 15, will feature the best online submissions and a panel of\u00a0scientists, policymakers, and business leaders\u00a0debating the issues they raise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Planet Forward<\/em> began accepting submissions on March 6, and they are available\u00a0for viewing\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/yourviews\">program&#8217;s website<\/a>.\u00a0 Luminaries such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/users\/christine-todd-whitman\">Christine Todd Whitman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/videos\/green-conservatism\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, and actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/videos\/the-off-shore-debate\">Ted Dansen<\/a> have already submitted videos.\u00a0 So has UC Berkeley\u00a0renewable energy professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/videos\/economics-and-clean-technology\">Dan Kammen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetforward.org\/user\/register\">Register here<\/a> to join the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of a new PBS program want your opinions about the future of energy and climate change (check out that box to the right).<br \/>\nPlanet Forward wants your written and video commentaries making a case for how to tackle the energy challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[418,468],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power","tag-pbs","tag-renewable-energy"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planet Forward | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/03\/17\/planet-forward\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planet Forward | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The creators of a new PBS program want your opinions about the future of energy and climate change (check out that box to the right). 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