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some help, please

Published Jul. 8, 2008

Hey, friends.  I need your help.

I've just been assigned to the environmental beat here in the newsroom, and I'm trying to collect story ideas.  The management has given me wide latitude in what kinds of stories I can do.  

We see a lot of environmental reporting, and I don't want to repackage and rehash all the things you've already heard about.   I would like to hear about everyday things people are doing to reduce their consumption.  Do they save money, or do they pay a premium for "living green"?  I'm looking for businesses that are researching energy efficiency, maybe developing some cool, unusual technology that we might see one day.

If you have any good ideas, I'd like to hear about them.  You can e-mail me or call my desk at 919-821-8503.

 



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I don't really have any new ideas that haven't already been presented in the thread but I did want to say congratulations Brian and I look forward to watching your coverage. I'm glad to see WRAL awarding you additional responsibilities as I like your style. Keep up the good work!!

TeamHatteras, I appreciate the concern. I've got a stack of ideas already, but it always helps to have a few thousand more brains working on it. ;)

Brian - Here's the deal. Most if not all of the whackos who claim that they are environmentalists are nothing of the kind.

They proclaim that CFL's will save the world ignoring the ENVIRONMENTAL impact of the CFL's on public health and in the landfills. The EPA had to give CFL's a waiver to be put into a dump. That speaks volumes!

Last - has anyone asked a Boy Scout about the environment? You want a story - email me and I can take you to a place where environmentalists are abundant.

How about using a little of your own energy to research and develop your story instead of relying on readers for ideas?

I still believe Diet Coke and Mentos hold the keys to energy independence.

Basically anything that makes cars go besides gasoline is always a good story, in that it's something that people will watch. One in particular, gasoline from algae. Be sure to sprinkle the phrase "how this affects you" in there, too. No one cares about news that doesn't affect them.

"County officials found out he had taken at least 46 taxpayer-funded trips since he was hired in February 2006. The trips included whale-watching off the coast of Maine, four ventures to Disney World and a trip to a Las Vegas hotel."

What a cool assignment!! Enjoy the trips...;D

I'd like to know if Raleigh really saved any money by ending backyeard pickup - other than just firing the garbage collectors.

I would like to hear more about solar energy for the home. What is the cost and the effectiveness? I think that the government gives a tax credit for it, but I don't know how much. Does the government help subsidize this at all? How about wind power for the home?

tm...I've been down at the lake and the river and watched groups, I don't know if they were legal or illegal, but they weren't white, they weren't black and they weren't asian, so go from there as to where they came from...but anyways almost everytime they'd bring in a bedsheet full of their drinks, food, packs of baby diapers...all the things one brings to have a great time down at the lake or river...and when they got ready to leave, they'd shake the sheet out and walk off leaving a pile off empty cans, paper plates, dirty paper towels, scads of nasty dirtied diapers...you get the picture. Once I went over and made a formal complaint at the ranger station out on Highway 64 at Jordan for what good that does. They are bringing their mindset from where ever they come from that's litter is no big deal. Let someone else clean it up...Mañana.

sounds like another good reason to start shooting them tmed...

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