Publication Items

Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [1]

Fast fashion’s lack of sustainability has long been the subject of news media coverage. But now the realities of climate change mean that fashion reporting must be reimagined to include the lived environmental and human rights realities of workers making what we wear, writes contributor Yessenia Funes in the new Voices of Environmental Justice column. Ideas and resources for getting past simplistic fashion industry narratives.

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Voices of Environmental Justice [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Waste [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Asia [16]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Solar Power, the Community Way [18]

The energy transition imperative to move from fossil fuels toward renewable energies could leave out individual homeowners unable to install rooftop solar. But as the latest TipSheet points out, there’s an alternative: community solar. Good local reporting is needed to demystify it though. The backstory, plus more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [22]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Policy [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [24]

Animal agriculture is a massive industry with a vast environmental footprint, so there are plenty of reporting opportunities for journalists on the “eat beat.” In the second of two parts [25], following last week’s examination of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, food-and-climate journalist Jenny Splitter serves up a variety of story ideas and information sources, plus some thoughts on solutions journalism.

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Features [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Air [27]
Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [21]
Environmental Studies [30]
Food [31]
Forests [32]
Government [33]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Pollution [34]
Waste [13]
Water & Oceans [35]
Wildlife [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [25]

Many people who want to reduce their carbon footprint consider the climate impacts of diet, but their efforts may be misdirected. When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, it turns out what we eat is often more important than where it comes from. Sentient Media’s Jenny Splitter unpacks the locavore myth and explains methane burps, carbon opportunity costs and more. First of two parts [24].

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Environmental Studies [30]
Food [31]
Forests [32]
Government [33]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Pollution [34]
Transportation [37]
Waste [13]
Water & Oceans [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Why Parking, Long Term, Presents a Lot of Problems [38]

A new book makes the case that U.S. cities have had their environments, their housing and their businesses warped by parking policies. BookShelf contributor Jennifer Weeks, who shares her own parking-related frustrations, explores the arguments made in “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World,” and also takes a look at what the author sees as “parking-light” solutions.

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BookShelf [39]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [33]
Health [9]
Infrastructure [22]
Planning & Growth [40]
Policy [12]
Pollution [34]
Transportation [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
California [41]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [42]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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On the Hunt To Know More About Chronic Wasting Disease [43]

A relative of mad cow disease is working its way across the population of deer and related cervids in North America. And the latest TipSheet cautions that it remains unclear whether this chronic wasting disease can make the leap to humans, such as millions of deer and elk hunters. What environmental journalists need to know about possible risks and precautions.

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TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Consumer [6]
Environmental Health [29]
Food [31]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Wildlife [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Canada [44]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [45]

The climate change debate is often so focused on fossil fuels and mining that it ignores impacts in economic, political, neo-colonial and social terms, writes BookShelf’s Melody Kemp in her review of “Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown.” Why concepts like corporate social responsibility do little to stem the losses that come with such development.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [39]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [21]
Forests [32]
Health [9]
Natural Resources [46]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Pollution [34]
Region:
International [15]
Asia [16]
Europe [47]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Personal Care Products — Bringing the Problems Home [48]

Health and environmental concerns about some beauty items — like the use of formaldehyde in certain hair straighteners — have started to emerge as a focus for federal regulation. But as the latest TipSheet points out, the response has been slow and fitful. Meanwhile, here are story ideas and resources to help reporters find local angles for this environmental and public health hazard.

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TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [49]
Consumer [6]
Government [33]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [50]

Freelance food systems reporter Thin Lei Win believes that if the world doesn’t change the way it produces, processes, transports, consumes and discards food, climate change will worsen and hunger levels will spike. But she also worries that powerful interests want to keep the status quo and cites parallels with the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. More in Freelance Files, including places for freelancers to pitch climate-food stories.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [51]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Food [31]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Pollution [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [52]

In the second of a two-parter for our 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [53], the latest TipSheet considers how local environmental journalists can make news out of the state-by-state patchwork of flood risk disclosure laws amid rising climate extremes. A dozen-and-a-half story ideas and reporting resources on the topic. Plus, see part one [54] on climate and insurance.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Disasters [55]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [22]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Planning & Growth [40]
Policy [12]
Water & Oceans [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [17]
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