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Reporter’s Guide to Climate Adaptation [1]

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This new, mobile-friendly, digital guide from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, produced by longtime SEJ member Adam Glenn, features an extensive resource database and a series of backgrounders to help improve coverage of society’s preparation for the impacts of climate change.

Useful Links [2]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Climate Change [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Planning & Growth [6]

"Minigrids Seen as Fix for 620 Million Africans Without Power" [7]

"Power grids that work at a fraction of the scale of a traditional utility have gained support from banks and developers as a way to bring power to the 620 million people across Africa that lack access to electricity."

Energy & Fuel [8]
Planning & Growth [6]
Public [3]
Africa [9]
Source: Bloomberg [10], 11/17/2015
November 18, 2015 to November 20, 2015

Greenbuild International Summit [11]

At the 2015 International Summit, representatives from over 80 nations will come together to discuss common challenges. We see our ideas as valuable, applicable, replicable and worth sharing.  This year, the Summit is the place where we connect the dots between climate change, finance, policy, industry, resource security, practice and innovation.

Other Events [12]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Planning & Growth [6]
Policy [14]
Transportation [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]

"Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives" [18]

"In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction"

Economy & Business [13]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [6]
Public [3]
International [20]
Source: ICIJ [21], 10/12/2015

"No Poverty, Hunger in 15 Years? UN Sets Sweeping New Goals" [22]

"A season of goal-setting begins this month as the United Nations launches a new 15-year plan to fight grinding world poverty, improve health and education and quell climate change."

Planning & Growth [6]
Policy [14]
Public [3]
International [20]
Source: AP [23], 09/22/2015
September 17, 2015

DEADLINE: Metcalf Seminar "Climate Change and the News: Planning for Sea Level Rise & Extreme Weather" [24]

As policy discussions heat up in advance of the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in December, journalists are invited to apply for a free seminar exploring U.S. responses to coastal climate change impacts. This Metcalf Institute seminar will be held in Cambridge, MA on Nov 4, at the 2015 Rising Seas Summit.

Workshops and Fellowships [25]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [4]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [6]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]

Ten Years After Katrina: Lessons, Warnings, Rebuilding [27]

As the 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe approaches, many news media are doing stories that try to make sense of it. For journalists, it's an inexhaustible subject because it's about people's lives and the moral perils of the governments we choose. It's about the looming catastrophes we deny.

Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Health [30]
Planning & Growth [6]
Water & Oceans [16]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"'They Figured Our Neighborhood Is Black, So They'll Do It'" [31]

"Residents of Southside Syracuse put up a fierce, well-organized fight to stop construction of a sewage plant and still lost".

Government [32]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [6]
Public [3]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [33], 08/13/2015

"Florida Leads Nation in Property at Risk From Climate Change" [34]

"Florida has more private property at risk from flooding linked to climate change than any other state, an amount that could double in the next four decades, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project."

Climate Change [4]
Planning & Growth [6]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: Miami Herald [36], 07/28/2015
August 12, 2015

DEADLINE: IJNR Chesapeake Bay Institute [37]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will take journalists to Maryland, Sep 15-20, 2015, to explore threats to the Chesapeake Bay region, including nonpoint source pollution, depleted fisheries, and a population that grows by 100,000 residents each year. Apply by Aug 12.

Workshops and Fellowships [25]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [38]
Chemicals [39]
Climate Change [4]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [6]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]

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