Be Your Own Media
Quick and easy instructions on:
Writing Op-ed's about the Climate and Ecological Crises
Contacting news outlets asking them to report on the climate and ecological crises with more urgency and communicate the connection between extreme weather events and humanity’s burning of fossil fuels and ecological destruction.
Contacting your Representatives about the Climate and Ecological Crises
Writing Media Alerts and Press Releases for Climate Actions
Op-eds are opinion pieces written by members of the public that typically are published in a news outlet’s editorial section. Newspapers, magazines and other news publications regularly run op-eds to ensure they present diverse opinions on topics of importance to readers.
Ask your meteorologist to report on the link between human’s burning of coal, oil, and natural gas, and our destruction of ecosystems and increasingly severe and extreme temperatures, floods, droughts, storms, etc.
3. Contact your Town, State, and Federal Representatives
Elected officials often claim that they don’t hear about the climate and ecological crises from their constituents. We can change that!
4. Write a Media Alert or Press Release
Media alerts are one-page announcements of an upcoming event, intended for journalists, not the public. Their purpose is to convince reporters that this event is a genuine news story worthy of coverage and inviting them to attend.
Press Releases are an official statement issued to newspapers giving information on a particular subject/event.
5. Citations
Working list of Research and Articles on the Climate and Ecological crises to use in your writing.