Local filmmakers launched a new blog on April 1 entitled “How I Talked About Climate Change Today” to stimulate conversation about the global environmental challenge. The producers of Earth Day 2030, a mockumentary shooting in Albany County this summer, will be hosting the daily blog at www.earthday2030.com/blog-1.

“We are aiming to get people talking more about climate change, which can be a difficult and even scary topic for a lot of people,” Joe Murphy, writer and director of Earth Day 2030, said in a release. “In order to do something about it, we first need to talk about it. That’s why we’re launching this blog, and why we’re making the movie,” he added.

Initial blog posts will be from:

— Ríobart Breen, executive director of the Clarksville-based Anam Earth Center for Sustainability and Culture and a lecturer in theBiodiversity, Conservation and Policy Program at the University of Albany;

— Meghan Breen, assistant director of the Anam Earth Center and developer of Síolta, a nature-based homeschool cooperative; and

— Brandon James Costelloe-Kuehn, an anthropologist of media, science, and the environment and a lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The blog will include curated posts from academics, journalists, advocates, educators, and others with a background in climate-change communications.

The public is also encouraged to submit posts. The producers are looking for submissions of a few sentences or paragraphs describing discussions with friends, relatives, kids, colleagues, groups or strangers, formally or informally, at home or at work.

Blog posts may be submitted to earthdaymovie@gmail.com.
Earth Day 2030 is a short-and-feature film mockumentary project about a small-town community dealing with the social effects of climate change in the year 2030. It will be produced as a short film this summer, and the producers plan to make a feature-length version in the next two years. The filmmakers describe the goal of the project as stimulating dialogue about climate change through humor and narrative.