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David Biello recognizes the challenge of engaging people in environmental issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of folks feel like it\u2019s too late. People feel like we kind of made our bed and now we have to lie in it, so they throw up their hands and tune out,\u201d said Biello, an associate editor at Scientific American<\/i><\/a> and an alum of Metcalf Institute\u2019s 2011 Science Seminar on Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill<\/a>. \u201cI think the main way to address that is to not just talk about problems, but also solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n Biello covers energy and the environment for Scientific American<\/i>, where he reports on everything from oil exploration and climate change to alternative energy, pollution and fracking. He also produces a podcast called 60-Second Earth<\/i><\/a>, a weekly segment that delivers a quick dose of \u201csharp science\u201d on a variety of subjects.<\/p>\n \u201cI cover energy and environment because I think these two sprawling mega-topics are among the most important stories to cover. Period,\u201d said Biello.<\/p>\n Recently, Biello hosted an award-winning, fast-paced documentary with Detroit Public Television<\/a>, Beyond the Light Switch<\/i><\/a>, that explores the future of electricity and how today\u2019s energy decisions will affect the planet for decades to come.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hope would be that viewers come away with a little better understanding of how electricity in the U.S. really works, and what it takes to enable you to flip a light switch wherever and whenever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n Biello says Metcalf\u2019s Science Seminar for Journalists on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill not only informed his coverage of the spill\u2019s one-year anniversary, it also generated other stories ideas and introduced him to sources that he still reaches out to today. \u201cIn my view, it was fantastic and really helped ground the reporting,\u201d said Biello.<\/p>\n For journalists considering Metcalf programs, Biello says it\u2019s a great way for reporters to get re-inspired. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to do it. I would recommend doing it as soon as possible. You\u2019re going to get such solid grounding in science and the issues, and such a wealth of information from the experience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Biello is currently working on a book, due to be released in 2015, about whether humanity\u2019s impacts have become planetary in scope \u201cand, if so, what should be done about this Anthropocene,\u201d a term used to describe the current geological age during which humanity has a significant\u2013and potentially very long term\u2013impact on the environment.<\/p>\nRead more alumni profiles<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Biello recognizes the challenge of engaging people in environmental issues.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of folks feel like it\u2019s too late. People feel like we kind of made our bed and now we have to lie in it, so they throw up their hands and tune out,\u201d said Biello, an associate editor at\u00a0Scientific American.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alum-hp","category-alumni-reporting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12354,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/12354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}