Heads Up!

Hey journalism students! This sounds like a great way to make your work make you some extra cash:

WIN $500 in Student Writing Contest!
This contest is open to CU Students only and is free to enter. You have nothing to lose! The best part? You may have already written something to submit! We accept papers and projects from classes! $500 prizes for first place in each category. Entries are due by 5 pm on Monday, March 19. Get the complete rules and more information here.

And, if you're up for some nitty gritty environmental justice/climate change talk:

2/23 @ 3:30-4:30pm "Making the Case for Climate Justice" (Gugg. 205)
Maxine Burkett, University of Colorado, School of Law
For almost two decades, the environmental justice movement has been committed to the pressing issues facing low-income and/or communities of color that suffer a disproportionate share of environmental risks. The effects of climate change, which are also predicted to unevenly impact communities of color both in the U.S. and internationally, will compound these conditions. In "Making the Case for Climate Justice" Professor Burkett considers the theoretical and practical implications of climate change, climate policy and litigation on poor and of-color communities in the U.S. and argues for a new environmental justice effort wholly concerned with fashioning preventive and adaptive measures for these communities.