BIOS OF REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS

BRAD AUER (In the Trenches, Forests) has just finished a three-year stay at the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, where he coordinated a working group of private foundations that fund forest-related activities worldwide. Brad previously worked for the Tropical Resources Institute. He earned a Master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, conducting field research in the forests of the Amazonian estuary. There he learned firsthand the joys of logging and slash-and-burn agriculture, where "we had to cut down the forest in order to save it," he explained somewhat incoherently.

LEONIE HAIMSON (In the Trenches, Climate Change) is a freelance writer who lives in Greenwich Village in New York City with her husband and her daughter, Chloe. She is the co-author and editor of two influential factfinding reports for the Environmental Defense Fund: The Way Things Really Are: Debunking Rush Limbaugh on the Environment, and A Moment of Truth: Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth.

FRED HAPGOOD (Explore with Fred) is a free-lance writer based in Boston. He is the author of Why Males Exist, an inquiry into the evolutionary purposes of gender, and Up the Infinite Corridor, a history of MIT. He has written about environmental matters for Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and other magazines, many now defunct for unrelated reasons.

DIANNE SHERMAN (In the Trenches, Population) is a Washington consultant who designs and implements information campaigns for organizations that work on sustainable development. She has relevant experience, in and out of government, analyzing and writing about population, the environment, and the status of women. Recent personal contributions to saving the planet: quitting a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, driving a compact car less than 2,000 miles a year, choosing to be childfree.

FRANK SMITH (Capitol Hill Spy) has devoted his career to politics and public policy. He has written a monthly newsletter which outlines political, cultural and economic trends. He is an attorney and a graduate of Georgetown University and Boston College Law School. He is also executive director of GreenVote, a federal political action committee.

CAROLYN STRANGE (In the Trenches, Endocrine Disrupters), a science and medical writer with a background in biochemistry, has written for BioScience, Environmental Health Perspectives, Technology Review, FDA Consumer, and the San Jose Mercury News, to name a few. She lives with her husband and two cats in suburbia (where, as someone said, developers bulldoze the trees, then name streets after them) near San Jose, California. She thinks "Endocrine Disrupters" would be a good name for a band.

TOM TURNER (Media Watch) is staff writer and director of publications for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in San Francisco. He is a native of Berkeley and attended public schools there, graduating from Cal in 1965. He spent two years in the Peace Corps in Turkey (rural community development), worked briefly for Head Start. He was fired by the Sierra Club in 1968 (too close to Dave Brower) and laid off by Friends of the Earth in 1985 (ditto). He has written two books and hundreds of articles, reviews, and editorials for newspapers and magazines.

JACQUELIN VIOLIN (Media Watch) is a freelance copy editor whose specialty is books and other publications on environmental topics. She worked as a writer at the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund for three years, and as a copy editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a weekly alternative newspaper, for two and a half.

SETH ZUCKERMAN (Hypermaterialism, Coffee) writes on environmental issues from his home on California's North Coast, where he is active in watershed restoration and tends a small organic apple and pear orchard. His work has appeared in Sierra, The Nation and Newsweek, among other magazines, and in book form as Saving Our Ancient Forests (1991) and several co-authored volumes. His contributions to this Website were written with the help of an organic Sumatra roast brewed in a home espresso machine.

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