The Peach Report

I just had a new article published at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media on how the best digital storytellers are covering climate change online. Here’s a taste.

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Powering A Nation, July 31, 2009 – Since 2001, U.S. energy companies have proposed more than 150 new coal plants. But a loose network of environmental activists, aided by uncertain economic conditions, has forced plans for more than 100 of the plants to be abandoned. Dozens more are clogged up in the court systems. (The rest.)

CHAPEL HILL (The News & Observer, July 8, 2008) – Soaring gas prices are driving some of North Carolina’s visiting nurses off the road. Others are refusing to take on new patients. The trend, service providers warn, could increase health care costs and force critically ill patients to leave home.

Naisha David, a nurse’s aide at Good Health Services in Raleigh, said she no longer accepts cases in Cary, Fuquay-Varina or Apex.

“Gas is just so high that you can’t afford to travel the distance, even though we may love what we do,” she said. (The rest.)

CHAPEL HILL (The Chapel Hill Herald, Jan. 30, 2008) — In more than 80 classrooms across UNC’s campus this week, the topic will be the same: global warming.

Professors from a range of disciplines, including organic chemistry, art history and business, will set aside lecture time today and Thursday to address how global warming relates to their fields.
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CHAPEL HILL (The News & Observer, June 3, 2008) – He’s an NRA-loving, coon-hunting, native son of North Carolina.

She’s a transplant from Texas and an animal-welfare activist.

George Painter, the president of the Eno River Coon Hunters Association, and Amanda Arrington, the founder of the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, met a year and a half ago at a meeting about proposed dog-tethering rules in Orange County.
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CHAPEL HILL (University Gazette, May 7, 2008) – In a classroom in Wilson Library, Robert Cox pauses to update his class about the sudden disintegration of a massive Antarctic ice shelf.
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