Nicholas Kristof's 6th annual Win-a-Trip Contest

From Nicholas Kristof today:

And here’s a special holiday message you can pass on to university students: tell them that I’m announcing my annual win-a-trip contest. In 2012, for the sixth time, I will take a student with me on a reporting trip to the developing world to try to shine a light on neglected issues. These trips have been life-changing for past winners. Information about how to apply is on my blog, and thanks in advance to the Center for Global Development for again helping narrow the applicant pool down to finalists.



Some additional info I dug up:

In the summer of 2007, Kristof traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, accompanied by two young Americans, a student and a teacher. Their reflections of the heart-wrenching journey were posted alongside Kristof’s bi-weekly columns and turned into this documentary, REPORTER. It's now available on DVD - here's the trailer:

Toxic Waters -- New York Times series

The New York Times is doing a series of articles, and accompanying videos, about the massive pollution of American waters by corporate agri-business.

Check the series out here.

Watch the New York Times video on the water pollution caused by factory farms, "Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells" here.

The video includes an interview with a woman who describes the effects of drinking hormone-contaminated water from a nearby dairy farm on her reproductive health and that of her teenage daughters.

Water issues, livestock, energy, home electricity use, global warming (and so much more) are all tied together. The New York Times neatly ties some of this together in this video - "From Air to Water Waste."