Earlier this week, I argued that a fundamental shift was needed in climate change communication strategy and that the shift meant refocusing news coverage on urban areas rather than arctic regions:
Climate change needs to be repackaged around core ideas and values that a majority of Americans already care about. This means shifting the public lens away from distant arctic regions, socially remote people and places, or consequences far off in the future, and instead recasting climate change as an urban problem with local impacts and solutions.
Now comes this report from Cristine Russell at Columbia Journalism Review online. Russell, a fellow at Harvard University, details a conference that brought together environmental and land use reporters to discuss how these important urban dimensions and angles can be effectively covered.
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Nicole, I like your blog and found it via Seed magazine. Re EARTH DAY comments. It's good you have a place to go to relax and reflect, near nature. Nature is everywherem yes.
i live in Taiwan, south island, and go to a nearby temple shrine where it's quiet, a park nearby, and read the paper and think about polar cities in the future, which is what my work revolves around now:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
Did you ever hear of my project? GOoglge "polar cities" and u will see lots of info. The New York Times blogged about polar cities idea on march 29. still archived at Dot Earth.
I wonder if you can look at images of polar cities here and tell me if you think it might happen or not, and maybe even blog about the idea, pro or con? I am interested in hearing all views, from all sides. i am no longer interested in mitigation. I feel we need to focus on adaptation now. NOW!
Agree? Disagree?
Email me at danbloom GMAIL
Danny
Tufts 1971
Posted by: danny | April 24, 2008 9:23 PM