New Organization Pays Journalists To Spread Climate-Change Ideology

If You can fight climate change by paying journalists to spread the word and training them in environmental ideology. Another Promoting products that are compatible with the transition to renewable energies is a way to ensure that eco-friendly companies reap the benefits of the so-called “green” market. “moral opportunity.”

This Is 1Earth on its way? FundThe Climate Reporter Institute offers courses, certificates and grants to climate-focused journalists to raise awareness about fossil fuels while promoting green energy solutions. The The organization was founded by Roy Richards Jr., whose family business is SouthwireSells green energy products.

The 1Earth Fund A platform for education includes a “Master Class” There are 11 video programs, including “Climate Change and Extreme Weather,” “Climate Solutions: Clean Energy,” “Climate Change Language and Communication Strategies.” Reporters A climate-reporting certificate is awarded to those who have completed at most eight video programs and have attended a live training session.

The Program targets more conservative states specifically, including courses such as “Climate Change Impacts in the Southeast” “Climate Solutions in the Southeast; Drawdown Georgia.” Drawdown GeorgiaWhich Richards co-chairs “a diverse and inclusive movement to lift up and celebrate our progress on five fronts: transportation, buildings and materials, food and agriculture, electricity, and land sinks.”

Southwire, GeorgiaCompany founded by Richard’s father, Roy Richards Sr., established in 1937, provides products and services for electric utilities and the construction and transport industries. While Many progressive and conservative organisations offer ideological training programs to journalists, 1Earth Fund Unique in that it also produces products that are promoted as the solution.

Brian Balfour, Senior Vice President of Research at the John Locke Foundation In North Carolina1Earth, also known as Fund’s program “advocacy dressed up as news reporting” It stated that the articles it finances are “sympathetic and almost promotional to renewable energy sources.”

1Earth Fund Reporters and media companies can receive grants up to $200,000 for reporting on news. “suitable for a broad audience in purple states” “can be piloted in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.” Affiliates 1Earth beneficiaries Fund Include the Pulitzer Center, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago TribuneThe Miami HeraldThe Savannah Morning News, The Tampa Bay Times, and Orlando Sentinel. Recent 1Earth Fund Grants include $65,000 for the Wilmington News-Star In North Carolina The cost of the accommodation is $50,000 Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In An interview on YouTube Richards How it works Southwire It has evolved from a struggling business in the 1980s to a successful company today. “clawing its way back from a near-bankruptcy experience, just super thin margins, barely profitable” It was run “with a lot of disregard for environmental stewardship.”

“Regulators were bad guys; environmental authorities were bad guys,” Richards said. But He said that he has not spoken since then. Southwire Seeing the value in working with government, he has “so completely bought in to this idea of environmental stewardship and sustainability.” Southwire Other progressives also collaborate Georgia Companies such as Coca Cola Delta Airlines To combat climate change, there are groups like Drawdown Georgia, which has a business compact among its members. “draw down CO2 emissions,” Richards said.

To To the extent that fossil fuel use is reduced, such as by replacing gasoline-powered cars (EVs) with electric, the demands on the grid for electricity often rise, which requires significant new investments in transmission, generation, storage, and storage. Wind New power lines are often required to connect solar power generators to the grid.

Government The U.S. energy market is not just regulated. It also includes subsidies for wind and sun power generation, as a well as for purchasing EVs and building charging stations.

1Earth Fund Southwire Responded not to requests for comment on this article.

Kevin Stocklin He is a writer, producer, and an ex-investment banker. He Produced and wrote “We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis,” A documentary from 2008 about the collapse of the U.S. mortgage financing system.