Project Citizen 2021

Project Citizen 2021

Climate360

Over the summer of 2021, Project Citizen: Climate 360 will engage working student journalists from four universities located in diverse parts of the country: �鶹��ý in the Midwest, Loyola Marymount University on the West Coast, Louisiana State University in the South, and Morgan State University in the Northeast.

Meet the 2021 Project Citizen Team

These student journalists will collaborate on a series of multiplatform stories about climate change. They will be required to craft their stories through interviews with people across the country with differing economic needs and political ideals with an emphasis on the intersection between a controversial topic (climate change) and civil discourse.

Below are just a sampling of some of their vital, engaging work.

Recent News Stories

Before she was a beloved professor at �鶹��ý, ��ë��&�Բ��;�ʲ��ǳ��-��Ǳ��Բ��쾱 was a sustainable fashion designer in New York City. As a professor in the early 2000s, she used her experience to encourage her students to curate their fashion sustainably. She was met with backlash. What changed?

Many synthetic pesticides used in farming can harm both the climate and your body. Some foods retain the residue of pesticides more than others, to the point where no existing product can wash them away.
Recently, Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, announced the formation of the Conservative Climate Caucus with the purpose of educating Conservatives on climate policies that fall in line with conservative values. Here’s what you need to know.
Policy versus science over Miami building collapse

A building collapse that took the lives of almost 100 people has devastated the Miami Surfside community. It has also reignited the climate change discussion across the country.

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Sunscreen is a product made to protect humans from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, however, some ingredients found in sunscreen put our marine life in danger. Research says that 4,000 to 6,000 tons of sunscreen enters reef areas annually.

Recent weather changes are threatening Ohio’s farmers, but a switch to organic practices could be part of the solution. All that’s needed now, is for the government to support the transition. According to the Ohio Livestock Coalition, “Agriculture is the number-one contributor to Ohio’s economy,” with almost 75,000 farms in the state, and one out of eight jobs in Ohio related to farming.
What has been dubbed by Vox and other news as “the worst energy bill of the 21st century” has put Ohio behind in the transition to renewable energy.
As the world population nears 10 billion by 2050, overall food demand is expected to increase by over 50%, according to the World Resources Institute. Climate change will make feeding that population more difficult in some regions.
Fast fashion, the rapid production of cheap, trendy clothing, depends on an equally speedy and inexpensive supply chain, which stretches across the globe. The shirt on your back likely traveled thousands of miles and passed through dozens of hands, from seed engineers to cotton farmers to garment sewers to ship captains to retail workers.
The average global sea surface temperature increased 0.23 degree Fahrenheit per decade over the past 100 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As water warms, it has the potential to disrupt the very balance of ocean life—for both the marine animals who live in the waters and the people who call the shores home.

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