January 12, 2012 — Thanks to a major grant from the Grantham Foundation, and generous donations from individual members and friends of the Society of Environmental Journalists, SEJ was able to award $11,707 to seven journalism projects in the Winter 2011 grant cycle of the Fund for Environmental Journalism (FEJ). Congratulations to the winners:
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Brian Sewell |
Brian Freeman Sewell, Managing Editor, and Molly Moore, Associate Editor, for Appalachian Voices
Boone, NC, USA
$1,780 for travel and document-access expenses to produce a newspaper story about the Buffalo Creek disaster and the complex history of mountaintop mining in Appalachia
FEJ-funded project:
- "Remembering Buffalo Creek," February 21, 2012, by Brian Sewell.
- "Reclaiming Appalachia: Can Legislation and Enforcement Restore Mountains?" February 21, 2012, by Molly Moore.
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Francesca Lyman |
Francesca Lyman
Kirkland, WA, USA
$600 for travel expenses to produce magazine and online stories about the future of suburbia and the American dream in the Great Recession and the era of shrinking cities and peak oil
FEJ-funded project:
- "The Conversation: Our New Lots in Life," The Sacramento Bee's online news site, June 24, 2012.
Please also read Lyman's cover article on climate change, "Are We Ready for the Next Superstorm?" written for the Winter 2013 edition of the SEJournal, the quarterly news magazine of the Society of Environmental Journalists, produced by journalists for journalists.
More work by Francesca Lyman may be found on her website and on Solaripedia.com, the latter of which she is also managing editor.
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Stephanie Ogburn |
Stephanie Ogburn, for High Country News
Paonia, CO, USA
$917 for travel expenses to produce a story and accompanying multimedia for print and online environmental news services about evolutions in fighting invasive cheatgrass in Nevada
FEJ-funded project:
- "Great Basin Scientists Unleash New Weapons to Fight Invasive Cheatgrass," hcn.org (High Country News), September 17, 2012.
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Sue Heavenrich |
Sue Smith Heavenrich
Candor, NY, USA
$750 for travel, telecommunications and document-access costs to produce three articles on the impacts of fractured oil and gas drilling on farms, farmers, and the food supply in New York
FEJ-funded project:
- "Fracking the Farm," New York Organic News, Spring 2012.
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Christopher Weber |
Christopher Weber
Chicago, IL, USA
$2,237 for travel and survey expenses to produce magazine and newspaper articles and a possible book about the impact of urban farms on local economies and environmental quality in Philadelphia, Seattle and Milwaukee
FEJ-funded project:
- "Counting the Harvest: How Numbers Can Save Urban Gardens," Grist.org, August 28, 2012.
- "Growing Power Scores $5mil to Feed Our Nation's Hungriest Cities," Grist.org, September 18, 2012.
- "Overgrown: What Happens When Urban Farms Get Too Big?" Grist.org, October 18, 2012.
- "Perfume Uses Local Ingredients to Bottle Windy City's Essence," Grist.org, November 5, 2012.
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Valerie Wigglesworth |
Valerie Wigglesworth, for The Dallas Morning News
Richardson, TX, USA
$3,488 for soil-testing expenses to produce newspaper and online stories in multimedia about lingering lead contamination from secondary lead smelters affecting two North Texas cities
FEJ-funded project:
- "The Burden of Lead: West Dallas deals with contamination decades later," Dallasnews.com, December 14, 2012.
- "The Burden of Lead: West Dallas feels ignored after years of despair," Dallasnews.com, December 16, 2012.
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