Tag:Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Please join me and the Pulitzer Center on Tuesday March 25 for Urban Legacies, Rural Traditions, a series of Pulitzer Center funded short documentaries. This event at the Carnegie Institution for Science will be part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. Here’s some more information from the Pulitzer Center website: Join us on Tuesday, March 25, for a screening of short documentaries by Pulitzer Center grantee journalists about the environmental and social consequences of urban industries–and a […]
If you are in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area next week on the evening of Monday March 24, please stop by the University of Michigan where I will be giving a public talk from 7:30 p.m. The talk is hosted with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and will focus on my work covering environmental issues in China over the past 7 years. For an insight into some of the issues I’ll be talking about, check out this video from 2012 […]
My new eBook, Meltdown: China’s Environment Crisis, continues to spread through news outlets and was picked up by the Wall Street Journal last week. I was excited to see this publication as the WSJ decided to cover the project with a slideshow and video interview which you can watch above. Below is the introductory text on the WSJ about the project: Summer snowstorms, foul air pollution, litter-choked waterways, grasslands turning to desert – these are just some of the challenges […]
China is growing fast and, as it grows, it is faced with urgent environmental challenges. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are not problems confined to one country: they are challenges that concern all the world’s citizens, but the rise of China gives them a new urgency. Tackling these challenges will require a common effort and common understanding. Here at chinadialogue we aim to promote that common understanding. chinadialogue is devoted to the publication of high […]
This week, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s New Security Beat blog kindly featured my new eBook, MELTDOWN: China’s Environment Crisis, and interviewed me about its production. Please find below an excerpt of the interview. Make sure to visit their excellent website which is dedicated to environment and security issues. China is one of the world’s 12 “mega-biodiversity” countries, but its incredible natural landscapes, from Sichuan’s sparkling, turquoise-colored lakes to Guilin’s dramatic karst topography, are bearing the cost of rapid economic development, […]
The text below is an adapted excerpt from MELTDOWN: Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau, featured on UTNE Reader this week. There are some places in the world where you don’t want to get a flat tire. The middle of China’s vast Taklamakan Desert—with no cell phone coverage and no hint of civilization—is one of them. So when we got our second flat tire on our trek, we started to worry a little. We were suddenly a wheel short and […]
I am very pleased to announce the launch of MELTDOWN: China’s Environment Crisis, my new eBook for iPad and Kindle, produced with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which is now available for download on iTunes and on Amazon. This new free eBook is a culmination of 6 years of my work focusing exclusively on documenting, through photos and video, the many environmental challenges that China is facing in the early 21st Century. The challenges of capturing the many facets […]
I’m very pleased to share with you the news of the imminent arrival of a new multimedia eBook, titled MELTDOWN, produced by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. We’ve been working on this for the past 6 months, bringing together 6 years of my work covering environmental issues in China. The result of 10,000+ miles of travel, the book will combine photography, video, multimedia and essays from all corners of the country, that will immerse the reader in the story […]
For the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. To view the full gallery of images. “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us” — Oscar Wilde I’ve never been one for keeping a diary. My parents encouraged me to keep one from a young age, but numerous half-filled notebooks are evidence of my failed attempts. Early on however, I realized that photography and the experience of looking at an image were much more effective in helping me to […]
For the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting “I was forced to move here three years ago. Before, I was a nomad. I’m not happy with what has happened,” explained Dhakpa as we stood on the dusty street corner. (Dhakpa’s name and those of other Tibetans in the story have been changed to protect their identity.) The wind swept through the valley in which we stood, dirt and sand swirling around our feet. Nearby, large piles of refuse started to shuffle […]