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Media and Climate Change at Annual MeCCSA Conference 2011 #meccsa2011

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The MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network is hosting a panel at the 2011 Annual MeCCSA Conference, 12-14th January at Salford.

Our panel Media and Climate Change is scheduled for Friday 14th January at 13:30 – 15:00 in Studio 3, with the following lineup:

Chair: Muhammad Shabir Khan

  • Mass media role for climate change communication and global environmental sustainability
    Ronju Ahammed, Sustainable Environment & Climate Change Programme, Bangladesh
  • Mediated Climate Change: Scepticism on the Web and on Television Around Copenhagen
    Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool and Tom Marshall, University of Aberystwyth
  • Towards a (Re)Materialisation of the Spectacular (Celebrity) Objects of Climate Change
    Mike Goodman, King‘s College, London
  • Cosmopolitanism and Justice in British Newspaper Coverage of COP15 Copenhagen 2009 and COP16 Cancun 2010
    Unn Laksa, University of Liverpool

There is also another panel that might be of interest, on Wednesday 12th January at 15:45 – 17:15 in Studio 3, entitled Mediating animals: exploring commodification and affect. Continue reading →

Call for Papers – extended deadline:
Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring The Way Forward

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Friday 4 March, 2011

Symposium organised by the

Centre for Journalism and Communication Research at
The Media School, Bournemouth University

In collaboration with the

MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network

Call for Papers

The Mediating Environmental Change symposium will facilitate a debate on emerging and established forms and practices of environmental reporting – including climate change, conservation and sustainability. We aim to provide a lively discussion forum evolving around pertinent issues arising from a series of panels and keynote speakers.

You are invited to express interest in contributing your reflections or findings from relevant research as outlined below. Continue reading →

Green Week at BU, 18 – 22 October

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BU Green WeekOne of the great things about working at Bournemouth University is that it takes the challenges posed by climate change seriously. The student portal contains its own dedicated Environment section to help you lead a more sustainable life while here at BU.

With 17,000 students and 1,500 staff living, working and learning at Bournemouth University we naturally have a significant effect on both our local environment and our whole world, whether from our car exhausts, the energy we use or the things we throw away. Therefore we have a responsibility to reduce our environmental impacts as much as possible.

To reinforce this message, the University is putting events to raise awareness of environmental issues, including a Green Week 18-22 October:

A weeks worth of events, talks and activities covering all aspects of green student life from making your own bag for life, ethical travelling and volunteering advice, Give and Take swap shops to getting your bike fixed up by the bike doctor.

More details can be found on the green week programme leaflet (pdf, 254kb).

Oil spill ‘will shape how US thinks about environment’

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Barack Obama:

In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come

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What we can predict is that the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover; that there are going to be environmental costs that our children… our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren are going to have to bear.

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Coins database: what the Guardian’s specialists think

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Juliette Jowit on the environment:

The most striking thing about Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is simply that more than half last year's £3bn budget was spent on the UK's nuclear waste legacy.

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Act on CO2 is only a small part of overall spending on reducing pollution (£800m went on insulating buildings alone), oil and gas makes up most of UK energy but a relatively tiny spend (excepting their gargantuan tax concessions). But the raw numbers reflect criticisms of previous government policy: that it did not talk tough enough to voters on emissions, it hypocritically talked up a zero-carbon economy while encouraging fossil fuels, and it did not take adaptation seriously enough.

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Is this BP’s last option to stop the spill?

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Alex Thomson:

They have 16 men out there experienced in capping the Kuwait wellheads which Saddam’s troops blew up.

I saw what Saddam did in Kuwait and I saw what BP did in the Gulf – the Kuwaiti oil fires were child’s play on every level of comparison. Surface as opposed to extreme depth. In air as opposed to water. Ignited oil as opposed to gushing liquid crude into pristine deep ocean.

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So you have to ask – who on earth are BP to trust when it comes to talking about the terrible mess they have made? Precisely the question they really are asking on Capitol Hill, right now.

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Environmental news site Grist adds humour to reader donations campaign

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Jennifer MacDonald on Grist's fundraising campaign for environmental journalism:

we have noticed how the economic downturn hit environmental reporting particularly hard, with several eco-columns and publications going under in the last year. So we decided, why not mimic campaigns to save endangered species, which in a way journalists really are? Grist is known for our zany fundraising campaigns. We’d rather err on the side of humour than earnestness. The element of humour is there, painting our staff members as wild animals, but we also hope to strike a chord of urgency, showing our readers that we really do need their support as an independent, non-profit news site.

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Journalism with depth – Philly Inquirer goes 3-D – Editors Weblog

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Colin Heilbut:

“The Inquirer’s move follows a recent global trend in experimenting with 3-D daily papers. Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure was the first European paper to use 3D technology in a publication, and their efforts resulted in an increase in circulation from 85,000 to 115,000 copies. The Sun, a British tabloid owned by News International, will be releasing their own 3-D World Cup edition on June 5th. Despite the increased sales and higher premium publishers can charge for 3-D advertisements, the technology remains cost prohibitive to use on a regular basis. It also remains to be seen if this sort of gimmick can help make a substantial impact on a publication with as much red ink as the Inquirer.”

Cost-prohibitive? Right. What I don’t get is why there doesn’t seem to be an outcry against the environmental impact of such experimentation… environmentally-prohibitive?

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Citizens map the Gulf oil slick with balloons and kites – MIT Center for Future Civic Media

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    "We're helping citizens to use balloons, kites, and other simple and inexpensive tools to produce their own aerial imagery of the spill… documentation that will be essential for environmental and legal use in coming years.

    We're not trying to duplicate the satellite imagery or the flyover data (though we’re helping to coordinate some of the flyovers and trying to make sure the data is publicly accessible). We believe in complete open access to spill imagery and are releasing all imagery into the public domain."

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