Green Economy 2010 Blog

BusinessJournalism.org provides multimedia coverage of its June 28-30, 2010, "Covering the Green Economy" seminar, presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and funded by the McCormick Foundation.

Highlights include:

Investigative environmental journalist Jeff Goodell, author of How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate and Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, contributing editor for Rolling Stone and frequent writer for The New York Times Magazine, on energy and covering the coal industry.
Angel Gonzalez, Houston bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, on the future of big oil after the spill.
Pulitzer winner Gary Cohn on taking your environmental story global.
Bryn Nelson, a freelance writer and editor, and former award-winning reporter for Newsday, on blue jeans, brown roofs and other emerging trends in green buildings.
Susanne Rust, environmental investigative reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting's California Watch and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, on investigating BPA and other chemical stories.
Auto writer Jim Motavalli on separating hype from reality about green cars.
Craig Pittman of the St. Petersburg Times and author of two books, Paving Paradise and Manatee Insanity teaches how to create a books from a story you're already working on.