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Plenary 3. The 2020 U.S. Election: Could the Stakes Be Higher, for the U.S. and the World?

30 Sep 2020

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET

Plenary 3. The 2020 U.S. Election: Could the Stakes Be Higher, for the U.S. and the World?

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Repost @kitseeborg: Really enjoyed the #monarcheff

Repost @kitseeborg: Really enjoyed the #monarcheffect virtual reality project that #EDF brought to #SEJ2019. #VR

Repost @katherinecourage: Apparently I was too bus

Repost @katherinecourage: Apparently I was too busy at #SEJ2019 to take many pictures. But I’m excited to take so much of what I learned on to some new, big projects.

Repost @yulsman: Ed Ayres of the National Ecologic

Repost @yulsman: Ed Ayres of the National Ecological Observatory Network speaks with journalists on a #sej2019 mini-tour to the shortgrass prairie northeast of Fort Collins, CO.

Repost @wendyredal: On a field tour exploring envi $Repost @wendyredal: On a field tour exploring environmental justice issues on Colorado’s northern plains, we met Patricia Nelson and her son Diego. Patricia is a parent activist trying to protect the health and safety of Diego, a second grader, and his peers at Bella Romero Academy, a public school in Greeley, CO where a majority of students are from low-income families, mostly Latino and immigrant/refugees who have been resettled in the area and often work in agriculture, meatpacking and the oil and gas industries. Extraction Oil & Gas recently built a 24-well fracking operation less than 700 feet from the school’s playground and soccer fields. Legal challenges to the permits have been in favor of the operation and were upheld again in June of this year, though Nelson continues to spearhead efforts to educate the community and others, like SEJ journalists, about the risks of fracking sites proposed near other schools and residential areas where residents may not have the resources, language ability or confidence to fight back. During a poignant moment, she choked up as she recounted the experiences of children in the community swimming pool this past summer, located the equivalent of four city blocks away from the fracking site—sudden nosebleeds and burning eyes during the “flowback” phase of the extraction process. #sej2019 #Environmentaljustice$

@johnrplatt: View from the most fracked school in $@johnrplatt: View from the most fracked school in America. #sej2019$

#Repost @mirimirichristmas: Welcome to the short g

#Repost @mirimirichristmas: Welcome to the short grass steppe 🌾
#sej2019 #colorado #bigsky #gowest

#Repost @jeff.burnside: I’m experiencing a first

#Repost @jeff.burnside:
I’m experiencing a first-of-its-kind supercomputing 3D analyzer of the path of wind through wind turbines. It helps situate one so its wake doesn’t decrease the efficiencies of other nearby wind turbines @nationalrenewableenergylab Colorado #sej2019

#Repost @antonia_juhasz: #sej2019 How Environmenta

#Repost @antonia_juhasz:
#sej2019 How Environmental journalists do conferences.

#Repost @aaronwe: Learning about Fort Collins' bik

#Repost @aaronwe: Learning about Fort Collins' bike infrastructure investments at #SEJ2019. Perfect afternoon for a 10-mile group ride.

#Repost @wendyredal: Learning about meat productio

#Repost @wendyredal: Learning about meat production on Colorado’s high plains during the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. Visited Five Rivers feedlot in Kersey, one of 11 owned by the company, which is the country’s largest cattle feeding/finishing operation. These holding pens, which cover 700 acres, are home to 90,000+ cattle, out of nearly a million company-wide. They arrive here to spend about 6 months fattening up on grain before going to slaughter at the JBS meatpacking plant in nearby Greeley. The animals with a “CHIN” tag in their ear are bound for China. Lots at play in this industry, including the carbon footprint of beef production, environmental advances in collecting and treating runoff from these feeding pens, employing microscopic wasps to eat fly larvae, daunting and unethical working conditions for the largely immigrant labor force at the processing plant, and the global role of JBS, the Brazilian mega-corporation with $50 billion in sales annually. #sej2019 #foodpolitics

#Repost @alastairbitsoi: Happy National Coming Out

#Repost @alastairbitsoi:
Happy National Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍🌈Back when I was 26, I publicly came out on this day when I was a reporter for the @navajotimes ! I’m always grateful to this paper, which launched my career and visibility as an evolving Diné writer/storyteller. Ahehee! And being here at the @sejournalists #sej2019 conference, I am again inspired by the environmental journalism topics, issues and opportunities. Attending this conference in my role as @protectbearsears Comms Director has reawakened this idea of going freelance full-time. Along with pitching stories around Bears Ears and San Juan County, there are so many Indigenous stories that need to be told at major publications that I know I can write on my own as freelance! I’ve learned that I’m denying my heart what I want - which is being this storyteller with no real restraints! Thank you @conservationlandsfoundation for bringing me here! #sej2019 #journalism #storytelling #dinéwriter @sejournalists 📸 by Donovan Quintero P.S. I got two reporter’s notebooks! Yasss! 🖊💅🏾😍

#Repost @michaelkodas: Terrific Society of Environ

#Repost @michaelkodas: Terrific Society of Environmental Journalists’ wildfire and forestry field trip with Mike Battaglia, Peter Brown, George Wuerthner, Carol Dollard, Gabe Donaldson, Rob Addington, Russ Shumacher and Chris White as part of the SEJ’s 2019 annual conference in Fort Collins, CO. Despite frigid, snowy, windy weather the journalists gamely explore the snowy forests on the Lady Moon Trail the Nichol Sciut camp and the presenters gave a terrific master class in the drivers of the increase in wildfire in Colorado and across the west. Big fun and some serious learning. #sej2019 #megafire #coloradoclimate

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