Society of Environmental Journalists: Support insightful news coverage

Donations help bring journalists face to face with environmental issues, as with this mountaintop mining tour held during SEJ's 18th Annual Conference in Roanoke, VA. Photo by Dennis Dimick, Creative Commons License.Twenty years ago: the skipper of the Exxon Valdez went on trial for causing a devastating oil spill in Alaska.

Mountain top mining tour in Virginia as part of SEJ environmental tour. Photo by Dennis Dimick

Today: Lawyers are circling around those responsible for an even bigger spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Times change, but some things don’t; Certainly not the need for probing, insightful coverage of our environment.The Society of Environmental Journalists formed two decades ago to meet that need. Thousands of journalists and news organizations have raised their game since then through SEJ’s 20 annual conferences, 80 issues of SEJournal, 624 TipSheets, 5,110 days of www.sej.org and countless other resources and connections.In 2010, SEJ found new ways to help journalists survive and thrive in today’s topsy-turvy media world, with new-media skills training, community networking and grants for in-depth reporting.Please help SEJ start the new decade stronger than ever.Won’t you give at least $20 for each of SEJ’s 20 great years, so this unique organization can offer effective support for a new generation of journalists as they cover the story of the century?Please support SEJ: THE SOURCE for environmental coverage. Please pledge, mail a check or give online today.(Make giving easy! Call SEJ at 215-884-8174 to set up automatic monthly donations!)

Society of Environmental Journalists - DonatePO Box 2492Jenkintown, PA USA 19046Thank you.“If people don’t know, they don’t care. If they don’t care, they don’t act.”- Biodiversity scholar E. O. Wilson, in a letter to SEJ