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We are pleased to announce our 2023 ESI Journalism Fellows! We look forward to supporting these 5 outstanding reporters as they produce long-form #climatejournalism for local newsrooms from New England to the Southwest. environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/news/introduci…

Congrats to the new @mit_esi fellows!!! This program was huge for my career! Excited to see the work that comes out of the program this year! environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/esi-journalism…

Congratulations to our 2021 Journalism Fellow Nora Hertel @nghertel for her first place award in @MN_Newspapers's Better Newspaper Contest! Her winning "solutions in the soil" series, which she developed for her Fellowship, documented #NaturalClimateSolutions in Minnesota.

This is such a great program supporting climate change reporting in local and regional publications. And these are some very good journalists. Congratulations all!

Mind-meld moment: back-to-back, I read this article jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are-n… about what the youth of today need to face climate change (spoiler: not graphs)... and then Speechify founder's closing remarks: "[Y]our mission is to be who you needed most when you were growing up."

A hefty congratulations to @alexpshorts, a 2021 @mit_esi Journalism Fellow, for winning a prestigious science communications award from @theNASEM and Schmidt Family for his work (incl his fellowship project) covering #Klamath River basin and climate change. We're so proud of you!

Today's Times-Picayune features an 8-page special section about a tribal community's long struggle with climate change and the painful and often contentious process of relocating to higher ground.

@Gannett @nghertel @dschwarzphoto @AnnaHaecherl @sctimes Congratulations to the talented @nghertel for this win! She produced this reporting as a part of her @mit_esi 2021 journalism fellowship.

The work makes this topic practical, local and tangible. Great job, @nghertel @dschwarzphoto @AnnaHaecherl @sctimes #BestOfGannettAwards #journalism

Thanks for the shoutout, @arnoldsci! Wonderful to have you and your network listening to @TILclimate

Don't miss out on ESI’s virtual IAP event “American Perceptions of Climate Change” hosted by @lehhf tomorrow, Jan. 27, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm! Unpack how – and why – Americans think the way they do about climate change, what more we need to know, and what more we need to do.

Proud to be in the first group of journalism fellows @mit_esi. Check out the broad range of impactful work that came from @sctimes, @tristanbaurick, @DBleizeffer, @alexpshorts, Melba Newsome and the hardworking people @mit_esi -- @lehhf from @IrisMCrawford news.mit.edu/2022/mit-journ…

#Teachers and #educators from 9th grade to college can find individual lessons and activities, or whole lesson plans, on key #climatechange concepts at the MIT Climate Portal—based on our award-winning @TILclimate podcast! ow.ly/558R50H4pns

Jobs with ESI for a postdoc and a scriptwriter, winter courses at MIT on teaching with sustainability and using drones in environmental research... here are your environmental events and opportunities for the week! ow.ly/Zr1750H9n0g

Next Thursday, meet our environmental solutions journalism fellows as they talk about "connecting with Americans on climate change," with stories of local climate impacts and solutions from diverse parts of the US. ow.ly/CUqL50GxLLn

With flexible classroom plans on topics from the electric grid💡 to planting trees 🌳, paired with our short, award-winning podcast episodes, our @TILclimate guides for #educators help make #climatechange understandable for students from 8th grade on up. ow.ly/xin050GylQU

We're delighted to announce our newest People, Prosperity & the Planet event! Join us Nov 4 for "Connecting with Americans on Climate Change," featuring our 5 journalism fellows and guest moderator Arlie Russell Hochschild on climate stories around the US. ow.ly/BgYA50Gthwt

Thanks as always to the brilliant @DaveResonates, Ilana Hirschfeld and Sylvia Scharf for their patience and support as Aaron and I worked to get this right. I hope you enjoy the episode, and learn as much as we did! @ClimateMIT @mit_esi 6/6, fin

In the end, frankly, I’m surprised and relieved we turned out such a satisfying episode. A big thanks to Prof. Charles Harvey & Prof. Cesar Terrer @MIT_CEE for their time, input and review. 5/

I thought this one was going to be easy. A @TILclimate episode on #trees and #climatechange? Sure, simple: trees suck in CO2, store it in their trunks, and you'd need a heck of a lot of them. Turns out, I was very wrong. tilclimate.simplecast.com/episodes/til-a… 1/