What’s BASELINE about?
Subscribe to BASELINE for reporting and essays from John D. Sutter, an award-winning climate journalist and documentary filmmaker who is now an assistant professor of environmental media at the University of Oregon.
This newsletter will provide updates on the BASELINE documentary series, which is following three communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis between 2020 and 2050, and which is supported by the National Geographic Society and the International Documentary Association. It also explores the longterm nature of the climate crisis. We struggle to tell this story because we don’t live long enough to fully experience it. Our baselines for what is “normal” shift. We suffer from what has been termed generational amnesia. This newsletter searches for a new way of seeing.
Who’s writing this ?
The newsletter is written by John D. Sutter, a climate journalist and filmmaker whose work has won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Livingston Award for young journalists and has been nominated for two EMMYs. He is an assistant professor at the U of Oregon.
His students write a newsletter called “Voices of the Valley,” on environmental issues in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Why subscribe?
Because the climate crisis lasts longer than we do, and there need to be new and pioneering efforts to address this problem on the timescale it requires.
Plus, if you sign up, you won’t miss anything. The newsletter is the best way to keep tabs on BASELINE as it develops. You’ll get a chance to contribute, too.
