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ICFJ's Environmental Programs We are giving journalists the scientific know-how and resources to cover environmental issues, so that they can help their countries achieve sustainable economic growth without sacrificing natural resources and beauty.
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 ICFJ has joined with the Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists (SIEJ) to boost understanding of climate change in that vast archipelago. With a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and help from the Samdhana Foundation, SIEJ is organizing a series of workshops, meetings with experts, fellowships and publications.
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 The International Center for Journalists selected 13 participants to participate in a Seminar on Future Energy: Sustainable Energy for a Low-carbon World in Samsø Island, Denmark on December 11-13, 2009.
The seminar explored the potential for developing energy from coal, oil and gas, nuclear, biomass, wind, solar, efficiency and other means, impediments to growth of each; relative advantages and drawbacks, and how each could help control greenhouse gas levels to avoid warming the globe by more than 2 degrees, Celsius.
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 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) along with New America Media and Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism hosted a one-day conference of ethnic media practitioners and Environmentalists to discuss challenges to water, soil and air in the Southwest.
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Top officials and experts discuss U.S. and India collaboration to promote clean energy and combat climate change.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Yale University have co-convened the U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit to bring together key actors from government, corporations, research institutions, NGOs and the media from both the U.S. and India. The summit will facilitate a dialogue on how to promote enabling policies for the rapid development and deployment of green technologies in both nations and the opportunity for partnership on this front.
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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) offered a fellowship worth up to $5,000 for in-depth reporting on sustainable development in the Gulf of California region.
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ICFJ created a program to help Mexican journalists build up their environmental reporting skills in general and their coverage of community forestry in particular. Working with partner organization, the Mexican non-profit organization Periodismo para élevar la Conciencia Ecológica (PECE), ICFJ conducted training, held news conferences and produced background materials on community forestry.
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by program participant Nirmal Ghosh
The answer is blowing in the wind. Under leaden skies on a frigid winter morning, Mr. Soren Hermansen is hard at work – as usual.
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By program participant Marianne de Nazareth
Enormous blades moving slowly and gracefully in the middle of the sea were an exciting sight to behold. Every morning as we took the train from Malmo, Sweden to the Bella Center in Copenhagen, the sight of lines of wind turbines in an off shore wind farm visible through the panes of the train window were an awesome sight.
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By program participant Marianne de Nazareth
As we come in for the COP15 in Copenhagen, every morning from Malmo, Sweden, the sight of lines wind turbines in an off shore wind farm visible through the panes of the train window, never fail to stun me.
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 By program participant Nirmal Ghosh
THE simplest but perhaps most telling observation at a seminar on the future of energy in Denmark came from former US ambassador Richard Jones.
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by Nirmal Ghosh, Program Participant
Under leaden skies on a frigid winter morning, Mr. Soren Hermansen is hard at work – as usual. More people have made the journey to Samsoe to see for themselves the small but stunning miracle that is the windswept Danish island.
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