Just one reporter, from an online environmental publication, showed up, while several reporters in New York listened in by telephone.
The strategy draft was first disclosed by Greenwire, an online environmental news service, and then made available by the utility industry to other news outlets on Friday.
Surprisingly, given China's strict control of the internet, state media have acknowledged the change is partly in response to online environmental campaigners.
But I urge those who are interested in learning more to take a look at Nathaniel Johnson's frightfully smart series of articles on GMOs in the online environmental publication Grist.
Such training is also being offered in rural areas, with online environmental degrees and certificates, according to a survey of 321 community colleges by researchers at the University of Louisville's National Research Center for Career and Technical Education.
"The Yangtze is home to 400 million people and is the engine that drives roughly 40 percent of the entire Chinese economy," wrote Peter Beaudoin, the chief executive of the World Wildlife Federation in China, in an article on Chinadialogue, an online environmental magazine.
The rapid diffusion of ICTs during the past decades has facilitated the process of data collection and sharing by the general public and has resulted in the formation of various online environmental citizen observatory networks.
This story was previously published in Penn Elements, the University of Pennsylvania's first online environmental journal.
The online environmental community is abuzz with reports of all kinds about the coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee, ranging from first-hand accounts to health concerns to worries about coal in general.
Glenn's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Politico, The American Prospect, and many other publications and he is a frequent contributor to the online environmental magazine Grist.
Seattle also has a thriving alternative press, with the Web-based daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer, several other online dailies (including Publicola and Crosscut), The Stranger (an alternative, left-leaning weekly), Seattle Weekly, and a number of issue-focused publications, including the nation's two largest online environmental magazines, Worldchanging and Grist.org.org
