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BOOKS

Worldchanging : A User's Guide for the 21st Century, Harry N. Abrams, 2006; paperback edition 2008. Contributions on sustainable fishing, sustainable agriculture, organic food, mobile phone activism, and more.


Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day, Mountaineers Books, 2007. Uncredited contributions based on my articles for Grist, including a big chunk of "Naughty by Nature: Ever thought about the toxins in your sex toys?"




ARTICLES

"Keep On Trucking: Nouvelle food trucks make fast food with slow values," Grist, 11 Aug 2010

"Marine Toxicologist Susan Shaw Dives Into Gulf Spill, Talks Dispersants and Food Web Damage", - OnEarth Magazine

"Are Sea Turtles Being Burned in Oil on the Gulf of Mexico?", OnEarth Magazine

"Conserving Casco Bay, One Data Point at a Time," OnEarth Magazine

"House, Senate Intro Bills to Save Clean Energy-Green Jobs Program,"OnEarth Magazine

"Vermont Becomes First State To Set Renewable Energy Rates", Energy Boom, 5 June 2009

"The Heat Is On When It Comes to Building Coal-Fired Power Plants: The future of coal-fired electricity in the U.S. may be on the line right now in Kansas." Accompanied by gallery of original photos. Scientific American, 1 June 2009

"Energy Dept. Funds Projects To Separate Bats And Wind Power", Energy Boom, 28 May 2009

"Can Offshore Drilling Really Make the U.S. Oil Independent?," Scientific American, 12 Sept. 2008

"Brooklyn, Butterflies and Bees," Slow Food Nation, 4 Sept. 2008

"Scientists Observe Saharan Dust to Predict Next Big Hurricane Season," Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2008

"As Flood Waters Rise, Geeks Aim to Save Midwest With 3D Rig," Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2008

"Bed-Stuy Garden Party: Eco-celebrity, design, and social justice coalesce in a new Brooklyn green space," Grist, 12 June 2008

"Off the Grid: Strohhaus" -- compressed straw panels are integral to this supersustainable and modern Swiss home. Dwell, April 2008.

"Tempting Fate: Fifteen years after the Great Flood of 1993, floodplain development is booming", Grist, 19 March 2008

""Biloxi Clues: Post-Katrina homebuilding project gives hope for weathering severe storms", Grist, 20 March 2008

"Rolling On: As Corps series ends, big questions remain about the future of the Mississippi", Grist, 21 March 2008

"Leggo My Yazoo: EPA set to kibosh Mississippi Delta boondoggle", Grist, 5 February 2008

"Creating Urban Wildlife Corridors", Worldchanging, 29 October 2007

"Will Saving the Polar Bear Save the Arctic Ice?" Worldchanging, 9 October 2007

"How Mobiles and Blogs Don't -- and Do -- Help Human Rights", Worldchanging, 28 September 2007

"Making Garbage Visible in All Its Stinky Glory", Worldchanging, 20 September 2007

"Sex Education: A primer on chemicals, fertility, and reproduction", Grist, 18 September 2007

"Sustainability and Empathy", Worldchanging, 20 August 2007

"On the Shoulders of Giants: A Grist correspondent sweats her way through Live Earth", Grist, 9 July 2007

"Worldchanging Interview: Bill McKibben on Creating the Durable Future", Worldchanging, 11 April 2007

"Plastic Oh-No: A chemical found in everything from nail polish to shower curtains may be linked to health problems", Plenty, April/May 2007

"Small Potatoes: Using grease and other goodies, small producers are making a big difference", Grist, 7 December 2006

"Trouble at Muscle Beach? Grassroots biodiesel operations contend with industrial sand-kickers", Grist, 7 December 2006

"Lexus Nexus: A dispatch from an eco-showroom evening full of luxurious goods", November 16, 2006

"From Cow Poop To Cow Power: See post-bovine methane generate clean electricity!" Grist, 29 October 2006

"For the Birds", Worldchanging, 11 September 2006

"Pigeons Write A Smog Blog. You May Be Next." Plenty, Aug/Sept 2006.

"We're So Vain, We This Party's About Us: A dispatch from the launch party for Vanity Fair's green issue", Grist, 19 April 2006

"Ebb and Fla. Reporter Michael Grunwald gabs about his new book on the Everglades", Grist, 27 March 2006

"The Trend Is Near: Swanky New York event heats up the green scene", Grist, 26 January 2006

"The $1 Million A Square Kilometer Solution", Worldchanging, 25 January 2006

"Naughty by Nature: Ever thought about the toxins in your sex toys?" Grist, 6 December, 2005 (Syndicated on Alternet as "Getting (Too) Dirty in Bed")

"Fahamu: Pan-African Text Messaging for Social Justice", Worldchanging, 31 October 2005

"Speakeasy: Leveraging Mobile Phones and Open Source Software to Connect Neighbors", Worldchanging, 6 October 2005

"Clinton Global Initiative: Conversation with NextBillion.net's Allen Hammond", Worldchanging, 16 September 2005

"The Snow Must Go On: Inuit fight climate change with human-rights claim against U.S." Grist, 26 July 2005

"Media and Digital Tech Empowering Indigenous Survival", Worldchanging, 5 August 2005

"Toadus Operandi: John G. Roberts' enviro record not so green, but also not provoking a lot of protest", Grist, 22 July, 2005

"Mouths Where Their Money Is: Dispatch from a UN summit on climate change and investing", Grist, 11 May, 2005

"The Seven Thousand Dollar Science Fiction Movie", Worldchanging, 23 April 2005

"Sexy, healthy, clean and green", Worldchanging, 21 February 2005

"Chillin' Verde: Dispatches from Verdopolis, a confab on future green cities", Grist, February 2005

"Restoring Mangroves: Coastal forests are key to preventing future disasters and restoring life and livelihood around the Indian Ocean", Worldchanging, 29 December 2004

"'Adaptability has its limits' -- the Inuits' Right to Existence", Worldchanging, 17 December 2004

"Natalie Jeremijenko: The WorldChanging Interview", Worldchanging, 22 October 2004

"What Do Post-Bovines Portend?" Worldchanging, 25 August 2004

Why Not A Park? Worldchanging, 16 May 2004

"Fresh Kills: An Unnatural Context", Worldchanging, 2 April 2004