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A Native space: Designing an Indigenous storytelling, mentorship program

JoRee LaFrance and Alexander Cotnoir, making the Indigenous Correspondents Program announcement at the 2022 Planet Forward Summit in April, on stage with Frank Sesno. (PlanetForward.org)

Planet Forward Staff
Planet Forward
Planet Forward’s Senior Editor and Education Lead Lisa Palmer talks to Alexander Cotnoir and JoRee LaFrance about the Indigenous Correspondents Program and the future they envision for the program.
Regenerative reporting from McGinley Ranch

(From left to right) Eva Kotobuki Sideris, Frank Sesno, Hannah Krantz, Adam Goldberg, Vidya Muthupillai, and Dr. Imani Cheers.

Frank Sesno
Founding Director, Planet Forward
A select group of students from several universities recently traveled to McGinley Ranch in Nebraska to study and report on regenerative agriculture, land management practices, and sustainable bison ranching.
Solutions on the Half-Shell: Healing Florida's waters with clams
A person holds a clam up to the camera with the ocean tide in the background.

(Travis/flickr)

Katie Delk
University of Florida
Meet clammers, scientists and volunteers, like TV star Blair Wiggins and three generations of women, who are returning clams to Florida's Indian River Lagoon and other ailing waters to reduce pollution.
Astonishing Alaska | A whale of a tale: Citizen science aids whale identification

(Alan Vernon/flickr)

Ryan Bieber
Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College
HappyWhale, a website created in 2015, uses a unique algorithm to identify and track humpback whales. It relies on photographs from ordinary people to further scientific research.
Stewardship of our oceans should belong to the First Nations People
A wave breaks on a dark blue ocean, unleashing a cascade of white foam.

(Ivan Bandura/Unsplash)

Candice Powers
Georgetown University
Traditional Indigenous mariculture practices are easier on the environment and sustainably produce delicious seafood.
Music, mobilizing, and making a living on a living planet
Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington.

Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington. (Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 175623)

Pace Schwarz
Georgetown University
I interview labor and environmental activist Joe Uehlein about the historic intersections between those two activist movements and how he tells those stories in his music.
Bringing more environmental journalism to Cameroon
The author stands next to a statue of Nelson Mandela in front of a large, tan building. Both Beverly and Mandela hold up a raised fist.

(Lisa Palmer/PlanetForward.org)

Beverly Ndifoin
Mandela Washington Fellow
Ten weeks of this past summer have made the most defining moments of my career, my personal and my professional development in journalism. I have been in the United States of America enriching and being enriched by local U.S. communities, honing... Read More
Introducing our 2022-2023 Planet Forward Correspondents

(photo by Ezra Jeffrey-Comeau/Unsplash)

Aaron Dye
Multimedia Editor, Planet Forward
This year's team hails from 12 different universities from across the country. Click through to learn more about the exceptional students selected for our 22-23 cohort.  
Two years after historic oil spill, Mauritian youth continue to grapple with the consequences
A small white boat rests buoyed on clear, blue-green waters under a cloudy blue sky with a gentle mountain in the distance.

The shores of Pointe d'Esny, Mauritus, as seen from Île aux Aigrettes, one of the most prominent reserves in the Indian Ocean, on July 21, 2022. Almost two years prior, this water was blackened by an oil spill from the MV Wakashio. (Zoey England/University of Connecticut)

Zoey England
University of Connecticut
This July marks two years since the MV Wakashio oil spill. Though environmental NGOs have left the island and news coverage of the disaster has ceased, youth around Mauritius are still reeling from the effects of the tragedy.
Changing our minds, stomachs, and planet: The mission to make kelp mainstream
Yellow leaves of kelp swaying in a blue ocean.

(Oleksandr Sushko/Unsplash)

Candice Powers
Georgetown University
How making kelp commonplace in our diets and adapting harvested biomass into various materials will help both humans and the planet.

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