SEJ2008

Areva Nuclear Tour - Background

Backgrounders on nuclear power

The attached pdf files are part of the background information being made available for the Thursday Oct 16 tour of Areva nuclear facilities in Lynchburg, Va.

The files are posted at the request of Roger Witherspoon, a tour leader who cannot participate due to unexpected illness.  The brochures present critiques of the nuclear power industry in the US, France and Europe.   

Introducing SEJ Blogmistress Lisa Palmer

I am a new member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, recipient of the Rivlin Fellowship, and the volunteer Blogmistress for the SEJ 2008 conference in Roanoke. I work as a freelance journalist and live in Rhode Island. I research, write and edit for major consumer and trade publications, including online media, covering topics from small business and green technology to education, health and lifestyle issues. My stories on the environment have appeared in Fortune and Rhode Island Monthly. As a Fellow at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, I studied climate change and its sweeping effects at the University of Maryland last May. Over the summer, I hiked 105 miles of the Continental Divide in Wyoming and saw first-hand the effects of climate change on glaciers of the Wind Rivers Wilderness.

If you're an SEJ member, I  hope you'll join me as a Guest Author on this blog. Regardless, I look forward to meeting you at the SEJ 2008 conference.

Welcome to the SEJ2008 conference blog

This blog is set up for the SEJ 2008 conference.  It is moderated by Chris Rigel, Bill Kovarik and others.

Books by Conference Speakers

Books by conference speakers Here's a list of books by some of the speakers you'll have a chance to meet at SEJ 2008,  including links to the author websites and other information.  These and other books by SEJ authors will be on sale at the Hotel Roanoke. 

Peter Annin --"The Great Lakes Water Wars"

Wendell Berry -- Culture and Agriculture,The Gift of Good Land, and many others.

Gary Braasch, Photojournalist and Author, Earth Under Fire

Shirley Stewart Burns, Author, Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities

Marla Cone -- Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic

Denise Giardina -- The Unquiet Earth, Storming Heaven

Jeff Goodell --  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind American's Energy Future

Jacques Leslie --Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

Nancy Lord -- Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale and Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast