Employment
 
Editor, www.GreenerPenny.com
Editor, The Green Guide and www.thegreenguide.com
Senior Editor, This Old House Magazine
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Eugene Lang College of The New School, New York
Associate Director of Communications, Natural Resources Defense Council
Communications Associate, The Trust for Public Land
Assistant Research Editor, Glamour Magazine
 
Publications
 
Articles/stories in The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice, Sierra, Self, Worldwatch (founded “Green Guidance” column), Natural Home (founded “Be Well” column),Verdant, Mothering, E., Body & Soul, Bamboo Ridge, Sprig.com, gristmagazine.org, alternet.org, and elsewhere.
 
Books:  Coauthor, Mothers & Others Guide to Natural Baby Care (Wiley, 1999); Guide to New York City Private Preschools (SoHo, 1993). Contributor, E. Magazine Guide to Green Living (Random House, 2005).
 
Awards & Fellowships
 
New York Times/ Columbia University Environmental Journalism Fellow
Science Journalism Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Writing
Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
Michener Award, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Joseph Henry Jackson Award, San Francisco Foundation
 
Media Spokesperson on Greener Lifestyles, Products
 
Featured as expert in Newsweek, The New York Times, Elle, U.S.A. Weekly, WCBS Good Morning New York, other television and radio appearances.
 
Education
 
Stanford University, B.A., English Literature
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, M.F.A., Fiction Writing
University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law, J.D.
 
Professional Associations
 
California Bar Association
Society of Environmental Journalists
The Authors’ Guild
  
Hawaii-theme Writing Samples
 
“Danger in Paradise,” The Nation Magazine, July 3, 2006;
 
“Wilder Shores of Oahu,” The New York Times, July 27, 2003;
 
“Coral Reefs, Canaries of the Sea,” and “A Tale of Two Watersheds,” The Green Guide,