Shorter Pieces
Recovery Work (Underwater New York, November, 2019)
It’s Not Just The Chesapeake that’s In Trouble, it’s Maryland’s Trees (Baltimore Sun, 22 February 2017)
Pesticides in Paradise: How One Hawaiian Island is Losing the Battle over GMOs (Outside Magazine, 4 February 2017)
How Highways Dictate How We Eat (UnDark, January 30, 2017)
Teaching English majors to paddle canoes (NPR audio essay, 16 June 2016)
How Chemicals Change the Way We See (Terrain, February 9, 2016)
How a Baseball-sized Tumor Woke Me Up to Everyday Chemicals (Quartz, February 2, 2016)
Flint’s Water: Poisoned by Lead, and By Race (Medium, January 25, 2016)
Coming Soon: Major GMO Study (Sssh: It Will Be Done in Secret, by Russians) (Huffington Post, December 18, 2014)
Can We Trust the EPA? Not if History is Our Guide (Seattle Times, 13 April 2014)
Climate Change: It’s All in Our Heads (Orion Magazine, 17 January 2013)
The Orca and the Shopping Mall (Huffington Post, July 25, 2012)
Returning Soldiers, Jobs, and the Great American Landscape (Huffington Post, Jan. 20, 2012)
Why I’m Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2012)
A National Park in West Virginia?(Huffington Post, Jan. 10, 2012)
Cooking With An Axe (Huffington Post, Dec. 12, 2011)
Hormone Disruptors in Canned Food: New Worries (Huffington Post, Nov. 23, 2011)
Canoes But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies (Huffington Post, Nov. 18, 2011)
Can We Stay Healthy in a Toxic World? (Orion Magazine, August 9, 2011)
Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health (Huffington Post, May 5, 2011)
States Want to Join Feds in Rolling Back Environmental Regulation (Huffington Post, April 28, 2011)
The Lawn Chemical Ritual (Huffington Post, April 22, 2011)
Protecting Ourselves from An Invisible Danger: Environmental Toxins (Huffington Post, April 19, 2011)
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