Category: Rio Earth Summit

A lot of reporters are in Rio, anticipating arrival of close to 100 heads of state and other high officials  (Hilary but no Barack) to declare their hopes and intentions for a livable planet. This comes 20 years after a lot of reporters were there for the same thing. We'll get to coverage shortly. But first, a trip in the way-back machine....

Two SF Chronicle reporters - I the science writer and Eliot Diringer, environment correspondent - went to  the original Earth Summit. We each independently had petitioned top editors for the assignment and, unimaginable now and also then, they said yes to both. The Chron was fat, making money. Its publisher was nonetheless cheap. Yet there we were. It was there that I filed a story wirelessly for the first time (hooked...