Excellence in Journalism Award Recipients
2022 – “Will this court case end the mining industry’s 150-year dominance of the West? One legal loophole might change everything” by Elizabeth Royte, freelance journalist, published in Mother Jones
2021 – “Absent Wolves, Ecosystems Changed. Can New Wolves Restore Things?” by Sharon Levy, freelance journalist, published in Undark
2020 – “Concrete: The most destructive material on Earth,” by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
2019 – “Sponge City Revolution: Restoring natural water flows in cities can lessen the impacts of floods and droughts,” by Erica Gies, freelance journalist, published in Scientific American
2018 – “Saving America’s Broken Prairie” by David J. Unger, freelance journalist, published in Undark
2017 – Anthropocene, the magazine, Colorado Global Hub of Future Earth
2016 – The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age, by David S. Abraham
2015 – “Louisiana Loses Its Boot” by Brett Anderson, freelance writer, published on Medium
2014 – “Mahogany’s Last Stand” by Scott Wallace, freelance writer, published in National Geographic Magazine
2013 – Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis, by Cheryl Colopy
2012 – “Reversing 300 years of damage / A movement is under way to purge the trash, bacteria and pollution that have long infected the city’s heart” by Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun
2011 – Growing Up WILD: Exploring Nature with Young Children Ages 3-7, produced by Council for Environmental Education
2010 – The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action, by Ned Tillman
2009 – “Invasive Species of Oregon,” Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon)
2008 – “Fueling Iowa’s Future: Biofuels” by a team of reporters, The Des Moines Register
2007 – Platte River Odyssey, the magazine, produced by College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2006 – “Crude Awakening” by a team of reporters, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
2005 – “Invaded Waters” by Tom Meersman, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
2004 – “Toxic Air: Lingering Health Menace” by Jim Bruggers, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
2003 – “Our Troubled Sound” by a team of reporters led by Robert McClure, Lisa Stiffler, and Lise Olsen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2002 – “Georgia’s Disappearing Songbirds” by Charles Seabrook, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2001 – Bay Journal, Karl Blankenship, editor; Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, publisher