Sentences with phrase «local climate change stories»

The purpose of our survey of SEJ members, therefore, was to identify their interest in reporting local climate change stories — both impacts stories and solutions stories — and to illuminate any barriers that are currently inhibiting such reporting.

We conducted this survey in partnership with SEJ, which has joined the Climate Matters team in an effort to support a broader group of journalists in reporting local climate change stories.

The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.

It's also not surprising that nearly all SEJ members surveyed are interested in reporting local climate change stories.

Starting in 2018 Climate Communication is leading the development of workshops for journalists as part of the National Science Foundation funded project Climate Matters in the Newsroom — which helps journalists on every beat to tell timely, science - based, local climate change stories.

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In particular it might help to frame the story in terms not so much of potentially devastating consequences in distant parts of the world, but in terms of more local impacts of the climate changing and what people are doing about it.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

After a local newspaper reported a front - page news story of the Wicomico County schools» field trip to Assateague, readers accused the teachers of «brainwashing the kids with biased information» that climate change is occurring.

So we have the national «liberal» media, like the NYT and NBC, blowing this story, while the local, conservative media get it right, see «conservative San Diego Union knows climate change is killing Western forests» and «Oldest Utah newspaper: Bark - beetle driven wildfires are a vicious climate cycle.»

The second half of the Moveable Game Jams featured experts related to each content theme: employees of Current by GE for the future communities jam, NOAA and NASA staff for the climate change jam, and two New York City historical museum educators for the local stories and immigrant voices event.

Working together as a class with their teachers, their task is to explain to their 2017 selves what impact climate change has had on their local area, in whatever format they like — a 3 minute video, a quick story or letter, or an image.

Over 2,000 students participated in game design courses and game jams, and nearly 400 games were submitted about three themes: Climate Change (supported by NOAA), Future Communities (with Current by GE) and Local Stories & Immigrant Voices (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities).

These three themes are: Climate Change, Local Voices & Immigrant Stories, and Future Communities.

And of course, we set up banks of Chromebooks and laptops where students learned how to use Scratch and Gamestar Mechanic to design video games about the G4C Student Challenge themes (Future Communities, Climate Change and Local Stories and Immigrant Voices).

Compiled from the organization's biennial competitions of art videos that address climate change, these stories link the park's local plot of land to the global dialogue surrounding climate change, stewardship and sustainability.

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«The key to connecting to the larger climate change issue is to tell more unique, local stories,» he said.

I gave tips such as briefly sharing your own personal story, sharing common values with your audience, include your audience in you talk, use humor if you are comfortable, share local stories of the problem and solution to climate change.

We wanted to share this story because Surfer's Point is a perfect example of how local communities can work together to proactively fight coastal erosion and adapt to climate change impacts.

The decade - long program has worked with thousands of individuals, providing training in climate science, communications, and organizing to tell the story of climate change and inspire leaders to be agents of change in their local communities.

Climate Matters seeks to help correct that systematic misperception — by enabling journalists to tell local, science - based stories about climate change — because climate change is already causing harmful impacts in every region of our Climate Matters seeks to help correct that systematic misperception — by enabling journalists to tell local, science - based stories about climate change — because climate change is already causing harmful impacts in every region of our climate change — because climate change is already causing harmful impacts in every region of our climate change is already causing harmful impacts in every region of our nation.