#coveringclimatenow

[the-victor-leonardi-blondet]

#Repost @324cat • • • • • • Quan el veus, crida l’atenció. És un edifici tot de fusta al mig del barri de la Bordeta de Barcelona. És el més alt d’Espanya fet amb aquest material: té sis plantes i més de 25 metres d’altura. Però la singularitat d’aquest lloc va més enllà de l’edifici. La Borda, @bordacoop, és una cooperativa d’habitatge digne i ambientalment sostenible, que fomenta nous estils de vida. ​ ​Hi viuen 28 famílies que, juntes, han aconseguit reduir la petjada ecològica un 70%. Aposten per la vida comunitària amb espais i serveis comuns. Comparteixen, per exemple, les rentadores. En tenen quatre d’industrials, que reserven a través d’una aplicació. També hi ha una habitació per a convidats que fa servir qui la necessita, prèvia reserva en un calendari compartit. Els nens i nenes han convertit en espai de jocs la sala polivalent. ​ ​La cistella de la compra s’omple a l’economat, on els productes són ecològics i de proximitat. La neteja de l’edifici és fa entre tots i hi ha un pot comú per si algú no arriba a final de mes. ​ ​Les famílies de La Borda són sòcies d’una cooperativa que gestiona els pisos. Paguen una entrada de 18.500 €, que es retorna si deixen l’habitatge, i una quota mensual d’entre 400 i 600 €. Els pisos tenen 40, 50 o 76 metres quadrats. Són de protecció social, l’Ajuntament de Barcelona és el propietari del solar i en cedeix l’ús per un temps. ​ ​L’edifici és obra de la cooperativa d’arquitectes La Col, @lacolarq. El van dissenyar amb la participació dels futurs veïns I aplicant criteris bioclimàtics. És tot de fusta, els nivells d’aïllament són més alts del que estableix la normativa, el sol s’aprofita al màxim i hi ha ventilació creuada. Els pisos són al voltant d’un pati central: cada planta té un passadís en forma de balconada que envolta el pati. En la majoria dels pisos no cal ni calefacció ni aire condicionat. A més, les aigües grises de la dutxa i els rentamans es reaprofiten per als vàters i per netejar l’edifici. ​ ​Amb tot plegat, La Borda fomenta una nova forma de convivència més ecològica i sostenible. Una fórmula per combatre la crisi climàtica. ​ ​#Play324 #CrisiClimàtica #CoveringClimateNow #324cat https://www.instagram.com/p/B2j-Fg1FwFy/?igshid=4hbquqcw2i0t

[womenandcompanypost]

Hey Family we first want to send our condolences to @realpopsmoke family and his love ones. In extend to that we are going live tonight at 7PM on this platform and Facebook so please make sure you are following us and tuning in. We have a few of our hittas speaking on this agenda. From artist, business owners, dj’s, and people who just are disgusted with this matter and want to voice their opinions. Family we will see you tonight at 7PM. . . . . . #peoplepower #coveringclimatenow #aclu #rapper #inmigrantrights #vote2020 #inspirationquotes #socialjusticewarrior #popsmoke #healthcareforall #socialjustice #socialactivism #racialjustice #climatechange #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #berniesanders #closethecamps #positivenergy #climatechangeisreal #planttrees🌱 #familiesbelongtogether #berniesanders2020 #voteblue #impeachtrumpnow #registertovote #rippopsmoke #greta #politicalartist #gonetoosoon #politicalrevolution https://www.instagram.com/p/B8w1viopUaB/?igshid=1fujsn2g0p69d

[alternatywaofficial-blog]

Portal Alternatywa dołącza do największej na świecie koalicji mediów złożonej z ponad 300 redakcji z całego świata, które zaangażowały się na rzecz wspólnej walki ze zmianami klimatycznymi zagrażającymi naszej planecie.

Projekt, który został zainicjowany przez Columbia Journalism Review oraz The Nation, jest istotnym krokiem w stronę skutecznego informowania społeczeństw na całym świecie na temat kryzysu klimatycznego oraz wspierania inicjatyw na rzecz klimatu. Do koalicji dołączyły m.in. takie organizacje, jak Bloomberg, The Guardian czy też The Intercept. Alternatywa ma przyjemność bycia pierwszym, polskim portalem w koalicji.

Wierzymy w to, że wspólny wysiłek mediów pozwoli nie tylko informować społeczeństwa na całym świecie w sposób rzetelny, ale też zapewnić wsparcie inicjatywom na rzecz klimatu i znaleźć konkretne rozwiązania kryzysu, z jakim przyszło nam się zmierzyć w XXI wieku.

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[bristolforeurope]

"Central bankers are increasingly worried that climate change could sow the seeds of the next financial crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/no-laughing-matter-how-climate-change-is-scaring-central-banks #CoveringClimateNow " https://twitter.com/business/status/1177533352670310403 https://www.instagram.com/p/B27VZnBnzBp/?igshid=1iq4krjhezzh9

[secretpathseditions]

Thousands march for the climate in Lausanne. Photo:RTS. #climatechange #climatestrike #coveringclimatenow #lausanne #rts (at Lausanne, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B26bBCmBKIK/?igshid=tvmrepkujfgu

[sataniccapitalist]

The U.S.’s insistence on leveraging its economic and military power to have the final say on issues that affect the whole world is stifling international efforts to cool our burning planet. #CoveringClimateNow

[rjzimmerman]

I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in the number of stories and articles, both flat and interactive, boring and innovative, polls and infographics and so on over the past few weeks. A lot of the information is redundant, but sometimes the writers are showing us a different perspective on old information and data, and making us think. Why? I think part of it is the consequence of this new “Covering Climate Now” partnership.

Want to see a list of the participating media? Here’s the link to the list.

Excerpt from this story from The Nation/EcoWatch:

It's been 30 years since Bill McKibben rang the warning bells about the threat of man-made climate change — first in a piece in The New Yorker, and then in his book, The End of Nature.

For most of that time, the response from most quarters of the media, especially in the U.S., has been either silence or, worse, getting the story wrong. Reporters and their news organizations sidelined climate stories as too technical or too political or too depressing. Spun by the fossil fuel industry and vexed by their own business problems, media outlets often leaned on a false balance between the views of genuine scientists and those of paid corporate mouthpieces. The media's minimization of the looming disaster is one of our great journalistic failures.

It is heartening, then, to report that the press may at last be waking up to the defining story of our time. At the end of April, Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation launched Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at encouraging news organizations, here and abroad, to raise their game when it comes to climate coverage. We weren't going to tell people what to write or broadcast; we just wanted them to do more coverage, and to do it better. Close the gap, we urged them, between the size of the story and the ambition of your efforts. Try it for a week, then report back on what you learned.

We had a hunch that there was a critical mass of reporters and news outlets that wanted to do more climate coverage, and hoped that by highlighting that critical mass, we could also help to grow it. That's exactly what has happened. Our initiative has been embraced by more than 250 news outlets from across the U.S. and around the world — big outlets and small, print and digital, TV and radio — with a combined audience of well over 1 billion people. Their response has been amazing, and gratifying.

We believe that Covering Climate Now is the biggest effort ever undertaken to organize the world's press around a single topic. (You'll find a list of partners here, and you can follow all of us on Twitter at #CoveringClimateNow.)

Our week of focused climate coverage began Sunday and will continue through next Monday, Sept. 23, the day of the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. And there's more to come after this week is over; the climate story is not going away, so neither are we. We'll be talking to our newsroom partners about what they learned this week, what they need to continue the momentum, what they can learn from one another, and where we go from here.

[fishing-exposed]

@Meeratweets: Remember when conservatives were conservationists? This #Montana #flyfisherman does & wants those days to return. Another from my #FindingMiddleGround series for @insideclimate. @PrincetonPEI @sejorg #CoveringClimateNow https://t.co/kAFU5qNxCo https://t.co/cuSGQfKbtB

[science-criticaltheory]

Beleaguered Journalism Interests Seek to Aid Ailing Planet by Bud Ward

A new collaboration of news media interests seeks to right the ship of climate reporting to help combat global warming.

Let’s buy for a moment the well-traveled viewpoint that the news media like nothing better than a good crisis. Nothing like a crisis, and better yet two, to kick reporters’ and editors’, let alone media bean counters’, adrenaline into overdrive. Bring on the banner headlines, the grit and joy of covering someone else’s disasters up-close and personal, perhaps even a greater shot at one of journalism’s more glamorous prizes or awards.

But what, one might ask, when the crisis is not someone else’s, but rather a crisis in the house of journalism itself? As with the current decades-old and decades-more-to-come demise of the subscriber- and advertiser-paid business model? What if, one well might wonder, the crisis is in journalism itself?

And to compound the dilemma at hand, what if the crisis in journalism comes during an equally, and by all accounts even more serious (truly existential?) confounding crisis? As in misery loves company.

Take the climate change crisis as Exhibit A.

As luck would have it – bad luck, that is – the climate change crisis as we understand it, and as we don’t yet fully understand it, has been occurring and will continue to occur during a time of crisis for responsible journalism. Oh darn.

Journalism gurus pretty much accept that the ongoing crises of change surrounding and overwhelming many news enterprises will go on for a number of decades before, one hopes, we can all adapt to where it ends up. We can be pretty certain that our kids, and also theirs, will be dealing with this snowballing news/information dilemma for years, probably decades, to come.

The same, of course, applies to what many experts now feel can only fairly be characterized as a “climate crisis.” Again, as with journalism, it’s a crisis of our own making.

It’s not like there aren’t serious efforts to help mitigate the long-term harm, to avoid the worst possible impacts. And we can take comfort that that applies, at least for now, to both journalism and to climate change.

Climate crisis … meet journalism crisis

So it’s into this double-edged conundrum that enters the proverbial knight in shining armor. It comes in the form of a new consortium of journalism interests with the specific purpose of vastly improving media coverage of the climate crisis. No small challenge, that.

For into this muddle comes the storied Columbia Journalism Review, operating from within the hallowed halls of perhaps the world’s foremost academic shrine to journalism excellence, and a supporting crew of committed journalism organizations.

United behind the hashtag #CoveringClimateNow, this foundation-funded effort has in mind nothing less than what CJR Editor Kyle Pope has called “an unprecedented week-long organization of the media to focus coverage on climate change,” And that’s just one component of the overall plan, one that on its own could make herding cats seem a walk in the park.

With a $1 million grant from the Schumann Foundation and its veteran journalist and author Bill Moyers, the new initiative met at Columbia in late April amid an admiring crowd of like-minded media representatives and concerned climate activists. Co-sponsored in part by The Nation magazine and its veteran environment correspondent Mark Hertsgaard, the session featured speakers and panelists who presented a number of salient observations about the nuts and bolts – and also about the heart and conscience and the blood and guts – of journalism in this current era, some no doubt more realistic than others:

Author and activist Bill McKibben: “It’s not the job of journalists to see that people get upset, but the news is upsetting.”

Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post: It’s fine for news media to be advocates for press rights. Does it follow that they can also be advocates for a “healthy planet”?

Book author, opinion columnist, and self-identified provocateur and activist Naomi Klein: “It is impossible to be apathetic about the end of the world.” Scared? Yes, but not apathetic. Klein also suggested a need for a disinvestment movement on the part of news media: Ban fossil fuel advertisements, as they outweigh the amount of news coverage on greenhouse gases and fossil fuels.

Book author and journalist Hertsgaard discussed plans for “a journalist’s playbook for a 1.5 C [degree] world”

Environmental advocate and campaigner David Fenton said that for the “three major networks – climate change is ‘missing in action’ … it doesn’t exist … a giant act of moral cowardice” based on networks’ fear of right-wing retribution.

Author and TV veteran Moyers, long a top official with the Schumann Foundation and bearer of the $1 million Schumann check: quoted David Attenborough as expressing climate concerns and resulting prospects for “the collapse of civilization and the extinction of much of the natural world.”

Some preliminary ideas

As part of its launch, the media consortium, which included The Guardian of the U.K., published a Hertsgaard and Pope essay in The Nation entitled “The media are complacent while the world burns.”

In that piece, the two authors put forward a series of “preliminary suggestions” under such sub-headlines as:

Follow the leaders, “emulate outlets that are already covering climate change well.”

Don’t blame the audience and listen to the kids.

Establish a diverse climate desk, but don’t silo climate coverage.

Learn the science.

Don’t internalize the spin.

Lose the Beltway mindset.

Help the Heartland.

Cover the solutions.

Don’t be afraid to point figures.

Their provocative and entreaty-filled ideas amount to the proverbial clarion call to action, in this case for the enfeebled news media to come to the aid of an endangered and in many ways politically immobilized planet, ours.

Hertsgaard and Pope conclude their piece by writing: “If American journalism doesn’t get the climate story right – and soon – no other story will matter. The news media’s past climate failures can be redeemed only by an immediate shift to more high-profile, inclusive, and fearless coverage.”

Who among sentient and caring human beings, one might seriously ask, could fault the effort? Who also, one might wonder, might be tempted to ask: What could possibly go wrong?

Sure. Plenty, one might reasonably think. But as they say, “any ship in a storm,” and this still-emerging initiative seems as seaworthy as any other yet proposed to take on the double-jeopardy challenges of a weakened news media in a warming climate.

[sirlotharjuarez]

Tweeted

“The Department of Defense is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.” https://t.co/VowJRc281h#CoveringClimateNow

— The Intercept (@theintercept) September 17, 2019

[tribunamag]

Tweeted

Naomi Klein says the DNC's refusal to hold a climate debate reveals “a fundamental failure to understand the intersectional nature of this crisis,” making it crucial for the candidates to be vocal about their plans. #CoveringClimateNow https://t.co/lHJ3RQ2XWj

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) September 21, 2019

[pablobongiovanni]

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[jaredtbennett]

RT @jiejennyzou: If you're like me, you harbor an inhumane hatred of mosquitoes and take more joy than what is socially appropriate when squashing them. And maybe you leave their corpses around as a message to their friends. #CoveringClimateNow Also, read this: https://t.co/iAivhohXao

If you're like me, you harbor an inhumane hatred of mosquitoes and take more joy than what is socially appropriate when squashing them. And maybe you leave their corpses around as a message to their friends. #CoveringClimateNow Also, read this: https://t.co/iAivhohXao

— Jie Jenny Zou (@jiejennyzou) September 20, 2019

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[totallysamsays]

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[secretpathseditions]

Climate strike in New Zealand. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/27/nothing-else-matters-school-climate-strikes-sweep-new-zealand? #climatestrike #newzealand #coveringclimatenow #youth4climate https://www.instagram.com/p/B25orLaHi7j/?igshid=vt5zwembgthz