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June 16, 2025 to June 19, 2025

Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress 2025 [1]

SRI2025 in Chicago will provide keynote sessions, cutting-edge innovation showcases, community-driven excursions and cross-sector collaborations designed to drive meaningful change. Interested in a story ahead of SRI2025? Interviews can be arranged.

Professional Meetings [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]

Life on Mars and Other Space Oddities [7]

When an ecologist and a cartoonist team up to explore the realities of colonizing Mars, the result is a humorous and highly informative book on whether humans are truly up to settling space. They detour into the intimacies of zero-gravity intimacy and the challenges of ensuring a food supply. From BookShelf contributing editor Melody Kemp, a review of “A City on Mars.”

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [8]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [4]
Science [9]
Technology [10]
Transportation [11]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
International [12]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
June 18, 2025

DEADLINE: Catalyst 2025 — Simulation of Working Through a Water Crisis [13]

Rogue Water Lab invites applications from journalists to attend this high-intensity, immersive event to simulate working through a water crisis — complete with misinformation, stakeholder conflict, press pressure and policy implications. Sep 22–24, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisc. Apply by June 18.

Other Events [14]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [15]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
May 20, 2025

The Climate Crisis on Our Plates: Rethinking Food and Farming [18]

Project Drawdown's next Drawdown Ignite webinar will engage outside experts in a far-ranging discussion focused on food, agriculture and land use. 2:00 p.m. ET.

Other Events [14]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [20]
Food [21]
Planning & Growth [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
International [12]

Rare Glimpse Inside Mountain Tunnel That Carries Water To Southern California [22]

"In the 1930s, workers using explosives and machinery excavated a 13-mile tunnel beneath Mt. San Jacinto to bring Colorado River water to Southern California. The Metropolitan Water District recently offered visitors a look inside the tunnel, an engineering feat that is a key piece of the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct."

Infrastructure [23]
Journalism & Media [24]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [5]
California [25]
Source: LA Times [26], 04/29/2025

"FDA Moves To Phase Out Petroleum-Based Food Dyes" [27]

"Federal health officials announced plans Tuesday to phase out synthetic food dyes made from petroleum, marking a significant shift in how the U.S. regulates chemical additives in food."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [31]
Food [21]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: The New Lede [33], 04/29/2025

"Which Cities Have The Most Trees? See How Yours Stacks Up." [34]

"Why some U.S. cities are so much greener than others." Includes lookup map.

Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [20]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [36]
Forests [37]
Infrastructure [23]
Planning & Growth [4]
Wildlife [38]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Washington Post [39], 04/28/2025

Trump Axed Rule Designed To Spare Taxpayers The Burden Of Future Flooding [40]

"The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [15]
Environmental Politics [31]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [41]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Grist/BPR [42], 04/15/2025

#SEJ2025 — Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future [43]

Next week, hundreds of environmental journalists are expected to gather in Arizona for #SEJ2025, the Society of Environmental Journalists’ expansive annual conference. Co-chair Kendal Blust has highlights of the four-day event, plus how the challenges facing the Southwest are those of communities across the United States, and why now is a critical time for journalists to come together. Read her rundown [43] and register now [44], before the April 16 midnight deadline.

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [45]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [19]
Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [31]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Food [21]
Government [48]
Health [49]
Journalism & Media [24]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [41]
Planning & Growth [4]
Policy [51]
Pollution [16]
Science [9]
Water & Oceans [17]
Wildlife [38]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
International [12]
Mexico [53]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"Calif. Snowpack Is Near-Average — What Does This Mean For Water Supplies?" [54]

"At 90% of the state historical average, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is nothing like record-smashing 2023. But it ‘s the third year in the row with near-average or above-average snowpack."

Agriculture [19]
Infrastructure [23]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [41]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [3]
California [25]
Source: CalMatters [55], 04/01/2025

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