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Developing Programs to Engage and Empower Communities to Address Threats to Ecosystems
Pages 25-28

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From page 25...
... Develop a program -- adventures, food experiences, citizen/public science activities, or other knowledge creation and sharing processes -- that can engage a specific community in understanding their changing local ecosystems, and the factors involved, and empower them as stakeholders and stewards of these ecosystems. SUMMARY Lydia Chain, NAKFI Science Writing Scholar New York University, Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program This group was interested in developing programs to engage and empower communities to address threats to ecosystems.
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From page 26...
... Lint and micro-plastics fill the seas, agricultural runoffs create dead zones bereft of oxygen, hormones and pharmacological chemicals leak from our wastewater and disrupt animal biochemistry, overfishing strips the trophic chain, and petrochemical manufacturing waste pollutes the water. The Gulf of Mexico has additional problems because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the fact that the sea level rise is destroying coastal communities, and from an increase in the frequency of hurricanes.
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From page 27...
... "It's still sort of a mystery what goes on in the Gulf waters." The team hopes to shine a light onto those mysteries and enable communities to learn about water quality for themselves instead of relying on agencies they may not trust. This is not just a data generation project or a mobile art installation, however.
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From page 28...
... It's a historically disadvantaged community that is already home to several ecofairs, including the Grand Isle Migratory Bird Festival. The team could build on current programs and test several educational programs and festival events.
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