By admin on August 27, 2010
As media attention focuses on New Orleans and Katrina anniversary observances, bloggers are massing in the city to demonstrate “Internet activism” at the Rising Tide Conference this weekend. The conference Saturday at the Howlin’ Wolf intends to bring bloggers together to “dispel myths, promote facts, highlight progress and regress, discuss recovery ideas, and promote sound [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Environmental costs, Gulf Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina | Tagged New Orleans, Rising Tide
By John McCusker on July 19, 2010
The comparisons of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to Katrina are inevitable. It makes for an easy, perhaps even lazy, narrative. As a journalist who covered both, I have tried to avoid these conversations. Katrina and the BP spill are analogous events affecting the same region, sure, but these were distinct events. Even where [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Environmental costs, Gulf Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina | Tagged John McCusker
By admin on July 6, 2010
2008 Fellow John Moore covered the disaster on the Louisiana coast during a two-week rotation in May. “This Gulf disaster was one of the hardest stories I’ve done this year, and with the Haiti earthquake, a month in southern Afghanistan, a trip to the prison in Guantanamo Bay and coverage of the new immigration law in Arizona, it’s [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Environmental costs, Gulf Oil Spill, Uncategorized
By The Dart Society on May 14, 2010
Clara Germani, the Christian Science Monitor editor who received the 2009 Mimi Award honorable mention, was the project editor on a four-month, five-continent investigative project on carbon offsets that just won the Sidney award for April. The project, a collaboration of The Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, blew the cover off scams and [...]
Posted in Awards, Environmental costs, News About Us | Tagged carbon offsets, Christian Science Monitor, Clara Germani
By Devin Robins on March 25, 2010
Listen to Devin’s report for Living on Earth A few months ago, I took some time off work and drove north from Los Angeles about four hours to an area known as the Central Valley. I was looking for an individual or grassroots group whose members remain loyal to their environmental mission despite the recession. [...]
Posted in Environmental costs | Tagged activism, central valley, Devin Robins, pollution
