BIG IDEAS
There is no better way to understand the world than
by keeping an eye on environmental awareness and action. Environmental
issues are front and center for much of the world. People actually
care about biodiversity
and climate change
that were unheard of five years ago. Sustainability
is less and less of a buzzword
The question is ... are we engaged in pushing the envelope of environmental awareness, research and action?
How are we active participants in making our lives more sustainable?
Environmental journalism is actually doing quite well.
The challenge, though, is learning what is being done. Books
available in Australia in New Zealand are not easily found in
the USA. Likewise there is a lag in getting books across the Atlantic.
While there are a number of environmental
reporting websites, there are no comprehensive search engines
or wikis that showcase the best in global environmental reporting.
PRACTICAL TIPS
1) Readers who respect environmental reporting need
to write letters to the editor, digg, tag, fave, blog, whatever
the option is to show their support of the coverage. This needs
to be done now!
2) Readers passionate about environmental issues need
to become reporters, citizen
journalism, informing us of the news.
3) Publishers committed to environmental
reporting need to feature the coverage on the front page or
the home page, not buried on page 35 or three links down on a website.
4) Donors wishing to support environmental journalism
workshops need to ask whether the training they finance anwers the
needs of the reporters. There is a great deal of 'philanthropic'
work that does not stick simply because it is not requested.
5) All conferences, trade shows and 'events' should
be evaluated in terms of their eco-, people- and place-friendliness.
6) Environmental events and environmental journalism
conferences need to be leaders in using online forums and conferences
to proceed and follow-up the events in the natural world.
7) More inclusive, rather than exclusive meetings.
8) More Flickrmeets!
More BarCamps. Be creative and find ways to connect the natural
and virtual worlds.
ACTION PLANS
1) Edit Wikipedia's entry on environmental
journalism
2) Develop environmental features on the Planeta
Wikispace.
3) Contribute to Flickr's environmental photography
groups.
FEATURES
Environmental
Reporting
Fair
Trade in Travel Writing and Photography
Sustainable
Development Index
Green
Events
PLANETA FORUM
Climate
Energy
Parks
Wildlife
GUIDELINES
FLICKR
Árboles
Históricos y Notables de la Ciudad de Oaxaca
CJ
Árboles
de Oaxaca
Forum
on Latin American Forests
World
Trees
Recommended
Reading - Tom Walter
SEJ
2007
ONLINE
FLICKR
WIKI
Healing the Disconnect:
An Overview of Ecotourism Reporting
Toward Effective
Communication
Web
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ONLINE
WIKI
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
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