SMU Environmental Communication: From the Gulf to the Southwest

SMU Environmental Communication: From the Gulf to the Southwest SMU's Environmental Comm. students explore environmental issues in the Southwest. The previous group journeyed the Gulf Coast after the BP spill.

The 2014 Environmental Communication class travels to SMU's campus in Taos, NM, to study the environmental issues in the Southwest, and best practices for communicating those issues to the public in an effort to rally support and bring about solutions. See more at our class blog: ninaflournoy.wordpress.com

In January 2011, SMU students traveled to the Gulf Coast to examine the unprecedented commu

nications challenges during the worst environmental disaster in US history. Students chronicle their impressions as they journeyed from New Orleans, down to the coastline skirting the Gulf of Mexico.

Scroll down the article to see the brief film clip. A football field of land is lost to the ocean EVERY HOUR. Coastal Lo...
01/23/2019

Scroll down the article to see the brief film clip. A football field of land is lost to the ocean EVERY HOUR. Coastal Louisiana is disappearing and has been for many years. Tragic.

It was a made-to-order two days for fishing along Louisiana's coast. The cerulean skies and deeper blue water against bottle green vegetation amplified these anglers' main motivation for being out

01/08/2019

Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.

02/22/2017
02/20/2017

I'm not going to stop sharing this until the climate turns around!

04/27/2016

Oil can’t be un-spilled. to support renewable energies and protect the beauty of the Atlantic coast and Arctic from offshore oil drilling. http://on.nrdc.org/1WXksfv

03/02/2016
02/17/2016

The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw just received $48 Million to move off of their disappearing south Louisiana island. U.S...

Great cause for Giving Tuesday...
12/01/2015

Great cause for Giving Tuesday...

Donate to Oceana today and Discovery Channel will match your gift up to a total of $20,000 >>

10/07/2015

Louisiana's coastal marshes will be the key focus of $8.8 billion BP will pay to restore vast natural resource losses caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, part of a $20.8 billion settlement with federal and Gulf state governments announced Monday (Oct....

04/20/2015

Hi girls, where ever you are. I'm writing a book about the oil business and today, as I was writing about the BP Oil Spill, I realized that it's the 5th anniversary. And of course, I thought about you. You all made it one of the coolest classes ever.

The impact of the wolves http://wp.me/p1cWDj-dL
08/19/2014

The impact of the wolves http://wp.me/p1cWDj-dL

I love this video. Short and sweet, it’s a simple statement on the cyclical nature of, well, nature.

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