In California a new story of environmental change is emerging. It’s a story that tells how nature and civilization are no longer adversaries but partners, together creating healthy environments amid vibrant economies.

This hopeful vision is presented in Becoming California, a new public television documentary that will premiere on KQED 9 in San Francisco on Wednesday Sept 10 and then broadcast nationally on Wednesday Sept 24.

Produced by Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Kit Tyler and the California Environmental Legacy Project, Becoming California is part of an educational media project I created that was funded by a grant from National Science Foundation.

Narrated by Jane Fonda and with original music by the jazz musician Pat Metheny, the two-hour film takes audiences on an epic journey of change across 250 million years of natural history and examines Californians’ relationship with their environment.

Watch the trailer here.  See the PBS broadcast schedule here.

“Fundamentally and profoundly, we’ve changed the world.  We’ve actually re-engineered the earth’s ecosystems,” says Michael Rozensweig, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. “The question is not whether we should do that, because we are doing it. The question is whether we can do it better. The question is whether we can produce some of these new environments, some of these new ecosystems that not only are good for us, but are also good for the world of nature, and I say we can.”

For more information about the Becoming California, visit: www.calegacy.org/becoming-california.

For more information about the PBS broadcast, check out KQED’s pressroom page at: http://blogs.kqed.org/pressroom/becoming-california/

To learn more about the California Environmental Legacy Project, visit: www.calegacy.org.

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