Field Notes from the Awards Ceremonies

Since you probably don't pay attention to these things, (or do you?) I thought it worth mentioning that the New Yorker won a National Magazine Award for Public Interest on the strength of staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert's 3-part series on global warming. That series has since grown into a book called Field Notes from a Catastrophe which gets a rave review from climate modeller Gavin Schmidt writing over RealClimate. He calls it personable, well-rounded and thoroughly accurate. (Interestingly, you can now hear a reading of the book's intro and preface online.)

If that's not enough Kolbert for you, you can also read an interview with her over at Grist, which, by the by, just won it's own award: The People's Voice Award for online magazines.

And finally, while we're at it, our very own Sierra magazine has won another Maggie, the award of the Western Publications Association, for "American Idylls" -- the cover story of the September/October edition.

Congrats all around.