The third anniversary Grantham Prize Seminar on the State of Environmental Journalism will account the year's best ecology journalism from the U.S. and Canada .
-- The third anniversary Grantham Prize Seminar on the State of Environmental Journalism will account the year's best ecology journalism from the U.S. and Canada and cover an agreeable altercation on responses to altitude change at the Freedom Forum's Newseum in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 2008.
The $75,000 Grantham Prize, the better banknote cost for journalism in the world, will be awarded to a seven-person aggregation from The New York Times for their series, "Choking on Growth," about the ecology impacts of China's aberrant development. Awards of Special Merit (each accustomed a $5,000 prize) will aswell be accustomed for the National Public Radio series, "Climate Connections;" the Daytona Beach News-Journal series, "Natural Treasures;" and the series, "The Big Thaw," which appeared in the Edmonton Journal and the Toronto Star.
Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy The academy will accessible at 1 p.m. with accessible presentations by the 2008 Grantham Prize winners and Award of Special Merit recipients. These journalists will call how they developed their belief and crop questions from the admirers until 4 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m., the accessible academy will reconvene with a console to abode altitude change acknowledgment and acclimation options. What is achievable from scientific, environmental, clandestine sector, and political perspectives? How will media advantage of these approaches affect their ultimate success? The console will be chastened by Lisa Mullins, host of Public Radio International's The World, and will affection James McCarthy, world-renowned altitude scientist and admiral of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; James Rogers, chairman, admiral and CEO of Duke Energy; Bracken Hendricks, co-author of "Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy" and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress; and Joseph Kahn, activity baton for the 2008 Grantham Prize-winning team. Members of Congress aswell will altercate the challenges of creating a civic altitude change policy. This important altercation will accompany science, economics, ecology policy, and journalism calm to acquaint voters about the above altitude change action deliberations adverse the next President and Congress and the nation.
The 2008 Grantham Prize Seminar will be captivated in the Knight Conference Center of the Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot building alms visitors an acquaintance that blends 5 centuries of account history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
Seating is bound and registrations have to be fabricated by August 15, 2008. Visit the Grantham Prize Web website to assets your bench at www.granthamprize.org.
The champ presentations and console altercation will be webcast abide from the Newseum and accessible from the Grantham Prize and Metcalf Institute Web sites, www.granthamprize.org and www.metcalfinstitute.org.
The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment was created in 2005 through a collective accomplishment amid the University of Rhode Island's Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. The celebrated accolade ceremoniousness the plan of one announcer or aggregation of journalists for admirable advertisement on the environment. The anniversary cost is accessible to all media for plan originally produced aural the U.S. and Canada, and recognizes album plan appear or advertisement in the antecedent year.
The Grantham Prize is adjourned by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham through The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. The foundation supports accustomed ability attention programs both in the United States and internationally. Jeremy Grantham is a Boston-based investment architect and Hannelore Grantham is the Director of The Grantham Foundation.
The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting was accustomed in 1997 with allotment from three media foundations-the Belo Corporation, the Providence Journal Charitable Foundation and the Philip L. Graham Fund-and the Telaka Foundation. It is called for the backward Michael P. Metcalf, a abstracted in journalism and administrator of The Providence Journal Bulletin from 1979-1987. The Metcalf Institute provides science training for reporters and editors to advice advance the accurateness and accuracy of abyssal and ecology advertisement and offers journalism fellowships in abutment of assortment and advertisement on science and the environment.
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