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All forms of advocacy, esp. environmental groups.

"Health Groups Quit Baby Food Industry Effort To Limit Toxins" [1]

"Two environmental health groups have resigned from a council meant to lower the heavy metal content of baby foods due to what they say is a lack of cooperation from some of the nation’s biggest baby food brands."

Activism [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Food [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [9], 11/09/2021
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Eating (and Reporting) My Way Through the Foods of the Rainforest [10]

Conserving crop diversity is a key to maintaining global food security, especially in the face of climate change. To understand those efforts, Portland, Ore.-based freelancer Virginia Gewin traveled to South America, supported by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists, to find out how Peruvian chefs and Amazon dwellers hope to save the rainforest by sharing native and wild foods.

SEJ Publication Types: 
FEJ StoryLog [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Agriculture [12]
Biodiversity [13]
Climate Change [14]
Economy & Business [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [5]
Food [6]
Forests [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Planning & Growth [21]
Region: 
International [22]
South America [23]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [24]

After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [25]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Agriculture [12]
Biodiversity [13]
Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [14]
Consumer [3]
Disasters [27]
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [5]
Food [6]
Government [29]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [18]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Planning & Growth [21]
Policy [32]
Pollution [33]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Waste [36]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
California [37]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
International [22]
Canada [40]
Africa [41]
Europe [42]
Middle East [43]
South America [23]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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"More Eyes on Polluters: The Growth of Citizen Monitoring" [44]

"In pollution hotspots like western Pennsylvania — where petrochemical facilities are proliferating — local residents, distrustful of companies and government, are taking advantage of low-cost technologies to do their own monitoring of air, water, and noise pollution."

Activism [2]
Chemicals [26]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [33]
Science [34]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: YaleE360 [45], 11/08/2021
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"Frustrations Grow As Marchers Demand Faster Climate Action" [46]

"Tens of thousands of climate activists marched Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the U.N. climate summit, physically close to the global negotiators inside but separated by a vast gulf in expectations, with frustrated marchers increasingly dismissive of the talks and demanding immediate action instead to slow global warming."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [14]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [7]
International [22]
Source: AP [47], 11/08/2021
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"Greta Thunberg Says Climate Talks Are Becoming a ‘Greenwash Campaign’" [48]

"The United Nations climate conference in Scotland has become a venue for world leaders and business executives to pretend they are taking action on climate change without following through, the climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Thursday."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [14]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [7]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [49], 11/05/2021
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"World Leaders Are Met with Protests at COP26 Summit" [50]

"Protesters gathered around Glasgow, where the United Nations climate conference was held, calling for urgent actions from world leaders in the fight against the climate crisis."

The New York Times streamed the video from Reuter and the AP November 1, 2021. [51]

Activism [2]
Climate Change [14]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [7]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [51], 11/02/2021
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"The Divestment Movement’s Big Month" [52]

"Investors, foundations, universities and governments pulled their assets from fossil fuel companies in record numbers in October."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [14]
Economy & Business [15]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [22]
Source: The Revelator [53], 11/01/2021
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November 11, 2021 to November 13, 2021

Between Worlds: Emergence in an Emergency [54]

The Bioneers 2021 virtual conference features best-selling authors, MacArthur "geniuses," Goldman Prize recipients and others to discuss connections and projects drawing on Indigenous and nature-based knowledge to bridge the space between the world as it is, and what it could be. Also included: interactive sessions. 

Other Events [55]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Agriculture [12]
Climate Change [14]
Diversity [56]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [17]
Infrastructure [57]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [58]
Technology [35]

Will 2022 See the Start of Formal Negotiations Toward a Global Plastics Treaty? [59]

Plastic waste, already the subject of preliminary international talks, could be increasingly targeted after UN meetings in early 2022. Meanwhile, this ubiquitous product is polluting land, ocean and air in its various forms, as well as through little-understood microplastic particles. The latest TipSheet has the backstory on efforts to forge an international plastics treaty, as well as ideas for how to cover plastic pollution locally.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [60]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Air [61]
Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [14]
Consumer [3]
Economy & Business [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [62]
Food [6]
Government [29]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [18]
Policy [32]
Pollution [33]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [63]
Wildlife [64]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
International [22]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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