Publication Items

US Vulnerability To Heat Waves Varies Substantially by Location [1]

A new analysis of about 40,000 census tracts in the larger US metropolitan areas can help you cover how well your community is preparing for heat-related risk.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Health [4]
People & Population [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Green Social Networks: It's Not Easy Being Green Alone [8]

Do green social networks actually increase coherence in the environmentalist community, or are they a distraction? Are they sincere or opportunistic? Can they be used for greenwashing? All of the above?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [9]
People & Population [5]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
International [11]
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Report: Hints of Substantial Urban Residential Infill [12]

Researchers with EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation has found that residential development in some metro areas has moved from suburbs and exurbs to infill development within urban areas.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [13]
Consumer [14]
People & Population [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Food Deserts: Where The Food Isn't [15]

Areas lacking easy access to affordable staple foods can signal larger long-term problems, including environmental ones. Simple interactive maps can play a key role in engaging your community.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [14]
Food [16]
People & Population [5]
Technology [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations" [18]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [20]
People & Population [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations" [18]
Reporter's Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in your Area Become the Next Slums? [21]

Are Peak Oil, the subprime mortgage mess and generational shifts ending Americans' love affair with the suburbs? That's what some high-profile urban planning types are postulating.
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [22]
Planning & Growth [13]
Transportation [23]
People & Population [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Reporter's Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in your Area Become the Next Slums? [21]
Due Out Soon: TTI Mobility Study [24]

If you cover transportation or urban sprawl, keep an eye out for this year's Texas Transportation Institute mobility study.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [13]
Transportation [23]
People & Population [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Due Out Soon: TTI Mobility Study [24]
Border Fence Environmental Concerns Heat Up [25]

Mexico released a report condemning the border fence along the U.S. border as environmentally destructive.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [26]
Biodiversity [20]
Government [27]
Policy [28]
People & Population [5]
Environmental Politics [29]
Region:
Mexico [30]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Environmental Refugees: Demographic and Other Resources [31]

Key resources of studies and statistics for human angles on environmental stories.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Planning & Growth [13]
Disasters [32]
People & Population [5]
Environmental Politics [29]
Region:
International [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Environmental Refugees: Demographic and Other Resources [31]
Environmental Refugees: U.S. and World Examples [33]

Disasters create hundreds of thousands of environmental refugees in U.S and the World.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Planning & Growth [13]
Disasters [32]
People & Population [5]
Region:
International [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Environmental Refugees: U.S. and World Examples [33]

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