[Green] Ohio River Media and democracy webinar series

[Cindy Taylor]

MOVCA is  promoting this..    Adeline announced at our last business
meeting.

https://www.fairshake-els.org/events/community-democracy-webinar-series

Fair Shake’s Community Democracy Series aims to give people the tools they
need to participate in the processes that shape their communities. Each
segment of our FREE 5 part webinar series will be hosted by our staff
attorneys and dive into important aspects of our local and regional
democratic processes that are often overlooked. Some examples include urban
and suburban farming, building communities through zoning, understanding
the permitting process, protecting your community from lead hazards,
working together for environmental justice, and community lawyering for a
better future.

We will begin this week-long series on August 24th, 2020.
You can register for the events here:
https://fairshake-els.salsalabs.org/communitydemocracywebinarseries/index.html
<https://fairshake-els.salsalabs.org/communitydemocracywebinarseries/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0REXMfElOJukEESipKeXaUamqSEkE5kxXurq2t9ZCuUcCOXxDnvOogrj0>


In Researching more about Fair Shake-

Fair Shake incorporated in April 2013 as the nation’s first 501(c)(3)
nonprofit environmental law firm with the mission to open the doors of
environmental justice. We provide client-centered legal representation
regardless of income to level the playing field for people of modest means,
or no means at all.



Low-income communities are often left out of the decision-making process
yet they suffer most from environmental impacts like pollution or
contaminated water. Our non-profit law firm offers a full range of services
such as legal counsel, litigation, media relations, communications
strategy, and community outreach to  give their environmental needs a voice
and see to it that voice is heard.  I was intrigued to find out more
https://www.fairshake-els.org



Marketing director is Josh Eisenfeld, filmmaker!

I was checking out their news stories which led me to this  GOOD RIVER
site-  all about the Ohio River Watershed- which I didn't know about!
Great articles..  Here's an example of one of the articles posted- NEWS
ARTICLes:

Belt Magazine

Dec. 4, 2019 by Sharon Kelly

“What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for  regional
communities and beyond”

https://www.ohiowatershed.org/petrochemical-buildout-along-the-ohio-river-means-for-regional-communities.html

…

GOOD RIVER: Stories of the Ohio

https://www.ohiowatershed.org



Good River is a series about the environment, economy and culture of the
Ohio River watershed, produced by seven nonprofit newsrooms spanning five
of the 15 watershed states. To learn more about the project, read here
<https://www.ohiowatershed.org/about.html>.

https://www.ohiowatershed.org/about.html

Good River: Stories of the Ohio is a collaborative reporting project that
will draw you closer to the waters and ecosystem that helped to build our
region and sustain it to this very day. The Ohio River provides drinking
water for five million people. It’s a thoroughfare of business, supporting
jobs and communities. But did you know that it’s also commonly cited as the
most polluted river in the United States?



Good River is a series about the environment, economy and culture of the
Ohio River watershed. Journalists in seven nonprofit newsrooms – spanning
five of the 15 watershed states — worked from May 2019 into early 2020 to
produce nonpartisan, informative and striking journalism on the Ohio River
watershed.



Our journalists will share with you the beauty of the Ohio River and its
watershed, exemplifying all that could be lost if the threats facing it are
not addressed. The watershed faces many perils — from industrial polluters
and agricultural runoff to weakening of the federal Clean Water Act and
climate change.



The watershed isn’t an issue for only those on one side of the aisle.
Drinking water quality, livelihoods supported by the river and its
tributaries, the health and future of our watershed communities — these
should not be partisan issues.



The project launched in November 2019 with a regular publication schedule
through early February 2019. In spring/early summer 2020, we’ll be finding
out what watershed-native wildlife graced the cameras set up by a
photographer we’re working with through the National Geographic Society.



If you have comments, questions or suggestions about the Good River
project, please reach out to Halle Stockton at PublicSource by emailing
halle at publicsource.org or calling 412-515-0065


CHECK out their stories:



https://www.ohiowatershed.org/#watershed-stories



Seems like these organizations might be helpful to sustainability planning
.


Cindy
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