Our goal is to tip journalists to the most useful blogs for story ideas and background. We don’t want to overwhelm people, so we may exercise some selectivity.

Please feel free to point out environment-themed blogs we’ve missed. This is a work-in-progress.

In other words, don’t assume any blog has been “rejected.” Try suggesting it first. If it doesn’t make the list, then ask why.

Bear in mind also that this is a volunteer project managed by very busy people.

- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

thanks for the response. I’ll send my links along to SEJ as well.

Here’s my thing — it’s exactly the fact that they indicate that their list is a “selective list of recommendations” that originally puzzled me.

Is there something about our blog that SEJ feels makes it unworthy of recommending? What about the other ones I mentioned? I couldn’t tell if SEJ had just missed all this activity in surveying the blogosphere, or if hadn’t and instead were trying to tell us that we were doing something “wrong”.

If that’s it, I get the message but not the point… which is why I responded. If we’re all unworthy of recommendation in SEJ’s eyes, I’d be curious as to why, so that we can get better.

Remember, the goal of the list is not to be a comprehensive list, but a selective list of recommendations.

- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

We’ve been blogging at Oceana for a year and a half now (and were among the first environmental organizations to jump in). We’re not on the list.

NRDC has a blog. It’s not there either.

Sierra Club’s blog? Nope.

Excellent “bright green” journal WorldChanging? Uh uh.

Shifting Baselines’ blog? No soup for you.

Wherefore art thou, Green Media Toolshed?

And I guess Greenpeace’s blog isn’t green enough to make the cut either…

But Daily Kos is. Huh?

I’ve been working for two years now to help bootstrap an environmental blogosphere. It’s still in the formative stages, and people are still feeling their way around. But we’ve come a lot farther than the SEJ’s list would indicate to the reader.