When you look back and think about the last decade - what will stand out to you?  Maybe it's eight years of George W. Bush, maybe it's Katrina, wars, Barack Obama's campaign, steroids in baseball, scandals elsewhere, or maybe it's the economy crashing.  But no matter what story stands out to you - it's how you followed the story or heard about the story or shared the story that stands out most to us.  The aughts decade saw more change and chaos in journalism and communication than maybe any other field.  Sure, most of this is tied to technological advances, but a lot of it has to do with people focusing more on niche issues, topics and areas of interest.  From starting the decade "asking Jeeves" about global warming to finishing the decade ReTweeting updates from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (leading many readers to believe we were actually there), there's no doubt that communication and self-education are at an all time high.  And now's the time to harness that. 

If we were asked to name the single greatest media / communication influence on DTE, we'd have a hard time picking against Grist.  Though it started before the decade began (1999), we feel it a product of the aughts, and we're proud to say that for that alone, journalism isn't dead just yet.  When we started talking amongst ourselves about doing a "decade in review" piece, it immediately sounded silly since we've only been doing this since 2007.  So who best to take us all into the next decade than Grist.  Take a spin through their decade in review feature - there's a lot of hope and optimism to take away from it, and a lot of stories we forgot about (and some we wish we did).  And mark our words, come December 2019, we'll be hard at work on our own DTE decade in review.  Go to Grist's review HERE. 

Another veritable site is TreeHugger. Although that name usually comes across as archaic and derogatory. it might be a good fit for describing the edgy site which makes the case that Internet has an increasing advantage over the tree killing print media for covering sustainability. One of the best grassroots green blogs out there, they’re going all out for a nostalgic nod to the year and decade gone by, displaying fourteen slideshows which showcases some of the best (The Goracle, green tech) and worst (lobbyists, Glenn Beck). It's the good, the bad, and the ugly. Check it out HERE.

And because our hearts are always close to home, be sure to visit Sightline Daily's, "Best of the Daily Score" special series recap on the best of the best of Sightline Daily's news.  We'd be two lost souls without Sighline Daily, and reading through their recap sure made that clear.  And hey, look at story #40 "Leave it to Beavers" about The Lands Council's Beaver Solution.

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