CITIZEN REPORTING ONEARTH

Share the stories that matter to you and your community, or add local perspective to national and global trends. Your own personal OnEarth blog is whatever you want to make it: in-depth investigative reporting, an op-ed column, a photo-journal, a space to react to stories from the pages of the magazine and beyond.

Who are Citizen Reporters?

You are. Activists and advocates in the environmental field. Photographers, videographers, and documentarians with a story to tell. Travelers, college students, or community leaders. Aspiring journalists, academic experts, and armchair commentators alike.

What can Citizen Reporters do?

• Cover the local environmental beat. Use photos to tell stories of a local problem and a community's effort to address it. Video-interview a local leader or group taking action. Survey neighborhood groups and individuals to learn what their key environmental and health concerns are.
• Profile interesting people, places, events. Let your camera tell the good stories and bad, those that inspire and those that enrage, of ecological degradation, wild places under siege, wildlife on the rebound.
• Cover your own good works. Post photo galleries of DIY home improvements, everyday tips for doing one's part.
• Build a portfolio and professional profile associated with OnEarth's tradition of award-winning, independent journalism.

Where are stories posted?

As a Citizen Reporter, you'll have your own OnEarth blog. Our favorites will be included in our Editor's Picks.

Posts that relate to sustainable urban issues will also be published on our partner Smarter Cities site, and others that cover green living will run on NRDC's Simple Steps blog.