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"Wheat, Corn Prices Climb as Heat Takes Toll on Crops" [1]

"Wheat prices rose Wednesday as the hot, dry summer continued to take its toll on crops in the U.S. and Russia."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Public [5]
International [6]
Source: AP [7], 06/28/2012

SEJ Member Spotlight: Stefano Valentino [8]

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New member Stefano Valentino, a freelance investigative and entrepreneurial journalist based in Brussels, is developing an innovative, independent web platform for news dissemination, marketing and crowdsourcing, dedicated to "green globalization."

Visibility: 
Public [5]
Europe [9]
Technology [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Climate Change [3]

Senate Stifles Amendment on Crop Insurance Disclosure [13]

That left journalists and the taxpayers — for now — at least partly in the dark about where tax dollars subsidizing agriculture are really going. But disclosure advocates think they may get another opportunity when the House takes up its own version of the Farm Bill.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat: 
Policy [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Economy & Business [4]
Agriculture [2]
Visibility: 
Public [5]

GSA Changes To Green Building Standards Rile Chemical, Vinyl Lobbies [18]

"Twenty trade groups representing the plastics, vinyl and chemical industries are lobbying to stop the General Services Administration from adopting proposed new standards for green building construction, saying the changes could eliminate the use of hundreds of their products in construction projects."

Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Politics [17]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Wash Post [20], 06/27/2012

SEJ's 22nd Annual Conference Agenda — Friday [21]

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Breakfast and Opening Plenaries
Concurrent Sessions
Network Lunch and Breakouts
SEJ Membership Meeting
Dinner, Satellites and the Dust Bowl

 

Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [17]
Food [24]
Health [25]
Natural Resources [11]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [27]
Policy [15]
Technology [10]
Water & Oceans [28]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]

SEJ's 22nd Annual Conference Agenda — Saturday [30]


Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [28]
Technology [10]
Planning & Growth [27]
People & Population [26]
Environmental Politics [17]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Biodiversity [31]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]

22ava Conferencia Anual de SEJ en Lubbock, Texas, Oct. 17-21, 2012 [32]

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Ya están abiertas las inscripciones a la conferencia de SEJ de 2012. No espere. Inscríbase ya para escoger entre los siempre populares tours, el excelente taller para escritores freelance, y otros eventos de asistencia limitada. Nuestro anfitrión este año es Texas Tech University, y el director de la conferencia es Randy Lee Loftis, veterano escritor del diario Dallas Morning News. Lea el borrador de la agenda, las opciones de alojamiento y transporte, halle con quién compartir la habitación, y más. © Foto: Palo Duro Canyon State Park (apodado “el Gran Cañón de Texas”, y lugar del Tour 6 del jueves), cortesía de Earl Nottingham/Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

SEJ Espanol [33]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
Mexico [34]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Wildlife [35]
Science [36]
Planning & Growth [27]
People & Population [26]
Natural Resources [11]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Health [23]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Disasters [37]
Climate Change [3]
Biodiversity [31]
Agriculture [2]

"North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity" [38]

"Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller's formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses. But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity."

Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Pollution [39]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [40]
Source: ProPublica [41], 06/08/2012

"Oil Below $83 After Fed Gives No Stimulus Hint" [42]

"LONDON -- The price of oil fell to below $83 a barrel on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave no hint that the central bank is planning stimulus measures to revive a faltering recovery."

Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Public [5]
International [6]
Source: AP [43], 06/08/2012

SEJ Member Spotlight: Jacob Park [44]

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Jacob Park, associate professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability at Green Mountain College in Vermont, researches the complex relationship between business and global environmental issues. He writes for the "Sustainable Planet" column of OurWorld 2.0, published by the UN University in Tokyo. Jacob welcomes questions and comments from the SEJ community on his multi-year project exploring social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.

Visibility: 
Public [5]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Planning & Growth [27]
People & Population [26]
Economy & Business [4]
Climate Change [3]

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