Environmental Media Initiative
The EMI brings together environmental scientists with film and media scholars drawn from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to collaborate on teaching, research, and public programming. The EMI explores all of the ways media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit each other: the environment in media, media in the environment. More>
Announcements
2012-13 Critical Issues in America Series: Figuring Sea Level Rise
Focusing on the projected effects of sea level rise on human and natural systems, the Figuring Sea Level Rise year-long series will cultivate an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation among scholars, students, policymakers, activists, and broader publics from around the country. Check out the SPRING 2013 Conference: Risk and Uncertainty and the Communication of Sea Level Rise
New Graduate Program in Strategic Environmental Communication and Media
As a joint initiative, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management are offering a new graduate program, Strategic Environmental Communication and Media. The new program is a 12-unit "focus" in which students will learn to use media to communicate effectively and strategically around environmental issues including developing more compelling environmental stories, targeting appropriate audiences, and monitoring and managing environmental messages. Students will also acquire competence with web, video, and/or social media tools. <More>
Dirty Little Secret Wins Top Green Student Film Award
Dirty Little Secret, a film by UC Santa Barbara students produced in the Carsey-Wolf Center's GreenScreen environmental filmmaking program, has won top prize for the Green Living Project's inaugural Student Film Project. The film follows two surfers on their quest to make an eco-neutral surfboard. Along the way, the surfers learn about environmental concerns and modern-day solutions. More>
