Religion & Environment Story Project
@religionenviro
Bridging the journalistic divide between religion & environment beats. Promoting new angles on climate change stories. Founded by @meeratweets & @sprothero.
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What is #wastecolonialism? In this @Grist article, Joseph Winters 🔶 breaks down the promotion of recycling as a cure-all to the plastic waste crisis. grist.org/accountability…
"To make progress on climate you need more than policy and science — you need a commitment to human life and all the life on the planet." Columbia Magazine magazine.columbia.edu/article/can-wo…
By RESP's own, Katharine Gammon, a story in @Guardian about a once-in-a-generation "mushroom boom," in CA. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
#Landslide damage to roads, infrastucture and buildings costs up to $20 million a year. Without insurance, how will people pay for it? Illustrative story by RESP fellow Martha Park in Bitter Southerner bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/w…
"The media’s job, in this moment, is not to raise alarms...It is to document the ongoing mutilation of our planet, and to push citizens, politicians, and corporations to stanch the carnage." Is the age of climate optimism upon us? Kyle Paoletta Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2023/0…
Radical environmentalism has begun to influence mainstream fiction. But could these fictional events become reality? @Grist Kate Yoder grist.org/culture/radica…
RESP fellow Katharine Gammon wrote about the rebirth of Lake Tulare, also known as one of the "great dramas of California." What does this resurrection mean for surrounding communities? theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…
A beautiful anthology of poems, quotations, and essays by Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | Code Red 🇵🇸 receives a glowing review by kristen millares young in @WashingtonPost: "'The Language of Trees' is a call to action for those who still care." washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/…
This is an engaging story on the relationship between domesticated dogs, their human owners, and wild animals in Hakai Magazine - what responsibility do dog owners have to protect shorebirds? Ben Goldfarb hakaimagazine.com/features/gone-…
This week we are reading this Q&A in High Country News with the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming’s Yufna Soldier Wolf. Interesting conversation on the Red Desert, co-stewardship, and co-land management. hcn.org/articles/indig…
“The boom has done a lot of damage. Traditions are being lost in communities.” Can cooperatives help save mezcal's ancestral roots, and agave's genetic diversity? RESP fellow Annelise Jolley explores this in Civil Eats civileats.com/2023/04/10/can…
The New Yorker just released its special issue on the #bottlenecks of the #ClimateCrisis. So far featuring Rachel Riederer, Bill McKibben & Daniel A. Gross. Soon, Pagan Kennedy, David W. Brown, and yours truly. #EarthDayEveryDay Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency buff.ly/3AokN7U
We're so excited for this virtual event tomorrow hosted by Pew Research Center - young Americans from a variety of religious backgrounds will discuss how their religious commitments mesh with activism, hopes, and stories on environmental issues. Register here: pewresearch.brandlive.com/april2023/en/r…