1 week Ago By Josh Ocampo
explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On a warm, sunny day last July, Cara Buckley traipsed through a former hog farm in Iowa. Ms.
Buckley, a reporter on the Climate desk of The New York Times, was there to meet the farm’s owners, who, in 2022, sold off their hogs and in an effort to restore the land and get out of factory farming. It was at that farm that an idea came to her: Why not highlight local climate solutions in every state? “I just thought, What other stories are we missing?” said Ms. Buckley, who this year began working with Catrin Einhorn, another reporter on the Climate desk, to see the project through.
The first installment, titled “ ,” was published last month. It highlights climate and environmental solutions in five states, including , and . In an interview, Ms.
Buckley discussed the importance of positive climate change stories in the current news cycle and what she finds rewarding about investigating solutions to our warming planet. These are edited excerpts. We want to find to projects that benefit people and the environment.
We also want to be a little surprising. We loved the element of surprise in the car-free neighborhood in Arizona. How do people exist in Arizona in the summer without a car? I found that many people really liked living there because transportation is a huge part of the emissions problem.
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