Showtime series on climate change features WNCA’s Joyner; premiers in April

“Climate Disruption is not a political issue, it’s a moral issue.” – WNCA’s campaign coordinator Anna Jane Joyner, as featured in the Years of Living Dangerously trailer . The new Showtime docu-series, “Years of Living Dangerously,” is set to premiere on April 13. Filming took place at Duke Energy’s Asheville coal plant and the Asheville Beyond Coal rally. Also, watch for conversations with Ian Somerhalder (“Lost,” “Vampire Diaries”), Western North Carolina Alliance Organizer Anna Jane Joyner, and Beyond Coal Director Mary Anne Hitt. We’ll keep you posted on further details as the premier approaches. The Western North Carolina Alliance, North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light, Southwings, Riverkeeper, and the Sierra Club are the proud founding members of theAsheville Beyond Coalcoalition.We seek to:

• Lead a transition from the use of fossil fuel energy to a reliance on clean, safe and renewable energy sources
• Make energy conservation and efficiency a priority in reducing energy demand in Western North Carolina
• Replace jobs dependent on fossil fuels with jobs centered on conservation, efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
• Secure retirement of the Asheville coal plant and clean-up of any legacy pollution, including the coal ash lagoons.

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