Stories by Our Fellows

2011

Jessica Benko:

• "Scandinavia's Sami Reindeer Herders" (National Geographic, November 2011)
• "A 4-Track Mind" (Radiolab, July 2011)

Emanuele Bompan:

• "Tests Begin at Wyoming Carbon Storage Site as Challenges Loom Large" (Inside Climate News, August 2011)
• "Michelle Obama and the fight against obesity." (Bio Eco Geo Magazine, April 2011)
• "Altro che auto blu" (IL Magazine, April 2011)
• "Gas, renewable, and oil. The strategy of Obama" (Terra, April 2011)

Sasha Chavkin:

• "U.S. Nuclear-Disaster Preparedness Hobbled by Uncertain Chain of Command" (ProPublica, April 2011)
• "Disabled Former Cop in Student Loan Story Gets Her Debt Forgiven" (ProPublica, March 2011)
• "Education Dept. Pledges to Overhaul Dysfunctional Disability Review Program" (ProPublica, February 2011)
• "Education Dept. Bureaucracy Keeps Disabled Borrowers in Debt" (ProPublica, February 2011)

Bart DiFiore:

• "The Hottest Blood" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2011)
  

Wes Enzinna:

• "On John Ross" (n+1, June 2011)

Angela Jane Evancie:

• "Einstein on the Porch" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2011)
• "The Farm as a Gathering Space" (Vermont Public Radio, August 2011)
• "New direction for an old farm" (North Country Public Radio, July 2011)
• "Teaching Diversity" (Vermont Public Radio, May 2011)
• "Bikes break down migrant worker barriers" (North Country Public Radio, May 2011)
• "Barred Owls Appearing in Unexpected Places" (Vermont Public Radio, March 2011)
• "Learning to Walk" (The Beautiful Brain, January 2011)

Adam Federman:

• "Think global, eat local" (Adirondack Explorer, Spring 2011)
• "Pressure Mounts on Khimki Developers" (Waging Nonviolence, April 2011)
• "Russia's Khimki Forest Threatened by Highway Project" (The Nation, May 2011)
• "Alexey Navalny: Russia's Julian Assange?" (Nation Institute Investigative Fund, June 2011)
• "The Most Dangerous Game" (Earth Island Journal, Summer 2011)
• Book Review, "You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, But Get Lost in the Mall" (Earth Island Journal, March 2011)
• "Between Plenty and Poverty: Foraging in the Salento with Patience Gray" (Gastronomica, February 2011)
• "Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel in Fracking" (Alternet, February 2011)

Kathryn Flagg:

• "The Rainmakers" (Orion, November/December 2011)
• "The Trouble with Butchers" (Vermont Life, Spring 2011)

Lucy Flood:

• "Tests Begin at Wyoming Carbon Storage Site as Challenges Loom Large" (Inside Climate News, August 2011)
• "The Navy's Green Device: Coming to a Store Near You?" (The Atlantic, July 2011)
• "Reaching Beyond" (Teton Valley Magazine, Summer 2011)

Holly Haworth

• "A Message of Rebirth" (Flycatcher, December 2011)
• "Coal Ash Contamination - Coming to a Groundwater Source Near You" (Earth Island Journal, September 2011)

Mason Inman:

• "Opening the future" (Nature Climate Change, March 2011)
• The Climate Post (Huffington Post, ongoing)

Andy Kroll:

• "Flatlining the Middle Class" (Tomgram, October 2011)
• "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs" (Tomgram, August 2011)
• "The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate" (Tomgram, August 2011)
• "How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker" (TomDispatch, May 2011)
• Ongoing reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau

Molly Loomis:

• "Ghost Bird" (Sierra, November/December 2011)
• "A Piece of Quiet" (Backpacker, October 2011)
• "Southern Exposure" (Climbing, October 2011)
• "National Parks: Grand Teton" (Backpacker, June 2011)
• "Inside the ER at Mt. Everest" (Smithsonian, June 2011)
• "Fifty Years of Arctic National Wildlife Preservation" (Smithsonian, March 2011)
• "Boom and Bust: Reshaping Development Patterns in Teton Valley" (New West, March 2011)
• "Black gold, Black Diamonds" (Powder Magazine, February 2011)
• "Diamonds in the Dust" (Climbing, February 2011)
• "Oman's resources include warmth, adventure" (The Boston Globe, January 2011)
• "Alone on the tundra, ready to ride Arctic rivers" (The Boston Globe, January 2011)
• "Native Alaskans and Offshore Drilling" (Living on Earth, January 2011)

Andrew Mambondiyani

• "Zanu Reforms Threaten Timber Industry" (Think Africa Press, August 2011)
• "Biti Mines into the Details of the Zimbabwean Diamond Industry" (Think Africa Press, August 2011)

Phil McKenna:

• "A Buddhist Monk Saves One of the World's Rarest Birds" (Smithsonian, October 2011)
• "'U.S. Navy chief: I'm on a mission to stop using oil'" (NewScientist, May 2011)
• "Hybrid Power for the Frontline" (Technology Review, March 2011)
• "Schwarzenegger calls for fossil fuel termination" (New Scientist, March 2011)

Jeremy Miller:

• "The endless atlas: A review of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas" (High Country News, May 2011)
• "Fast Times at California's Petroleum High" (High Country News, February 2011)
• "The Colonization of Kern County" (Orion, January/February 2011)
• "Mixing Oil and Water" (Living on Earth, February 2011)

Robert Moor:

• "Mother Nature's Sons" (n+1, Summer 2011)

Sierra Crane Murdoch:

• "The Spirit of a Mining Town" (World Vision Report, February 2011)
• "In the Name of the Father" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2011)
• "Teaching climate change in coal country" (High Country News, February 2011)
• "Even Tea Partiers are Conservationists" (High Country News, February 2011)
• "From science to action in environmental justice" (High Country News, February 2011)
• "Bad Omens for Arch Coal" (High Country News, January 2011)
• "A New Era for Indian Country?" (High Country News, January 2011)
• "In Western water law, 'first come, first serve' has limits" (High Country News, January 2011)
• Additional reporting at High Country News

Annie Murphy:

• "Demand for Quinoa: A Boon for Bolivian Farmers" (NPR, January 2011)

April Rabkin

• "Cramming for College at Beijing's Second High" (Fast Company, August 2011)
• "Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan" (Fast Company, April 2011)

Kevin Charles Redmon:

• "This Man Has Created a Monster" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2011)
• "The Ties that Bind" (The Millions, August 2011)
• "The Sherlock of St. Paul" (Minnesota Monthly, April 2011)
• "Cerro Chirripo, Costa Rica's highest peak, rewards hikers with marvelous views" (Washington Post, March 2011)
• "As Kindle Takes Over, What Happens to Margin Notes?" (The Atlantic, March 2011)
• "Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2011)
• "In Iraq, Torture and Secret Prisons Continue" (The Atlantic, February 2011)

Molly Samuel:

• "Between the Lanfills and the Salt Hills" (Oakland Standard, July 2011)
• "The Good Shepherd" (Snap Judgement, June 2011)
• "Mice Make Trouble in the Farallones" (KQED, May 2011)
• "Inside Taft High" (High Country News, February 2011)

Kate Sheppard:

• "Why Are White Guys Climate Skeptics?" (Mother Jones, August 2011)
  "Star Polar Bear Scientist in the Dog House" (Mother Jones, July 2011)
• "An Oil Slick Runs Through It" (Mother Jones, July 2011)
• Ongoing reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau

Christopher Weber:

• "Rust Belt Rising" (OnEarth, Summer 2011)
• "Aquaponics taking root in Chicago" (Chicago Tribune, May 2011)
• "Augmented nose sniffs out illegal stenches" (New Scientist, February 2011)
• "Dirty Secrets Under the Schoolyard" (E Magazine, January 2011)

Malia Wollan:

• "Help from the U.S. for Afflicted Sister Cities in Japan" (New York Times, March 2011)
• "Oakland's Plans to Cash In on Marijuana Farms Hits Federal Roadblock" (New York Times, March 2011)
• "Painting a Porterhouse: Mark Ryden on Meat" (Meatpaper, Issue 14)
• "How Pantelion Films Lures Latinos to the Box Office" (Fast Company, January 2011)
• "Computers Get Permanent Hall of Fame" (New York Times, January 2011)
• "Mark Twain, Now a Career for the Mustachioed" (New York Times, January 2011)

2010

Bidisha Banerjee:

• "The Great Wall of India" (Slate, December 2010)
• "ENMOD Squad: Could an obscure treaty protect developing countries from geoengineering gone wrong?" (Slate, September 2010)
• "Black Carbon's Grey Areas: Part I" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, July 2010)
• "Black Carbon's Grey Areas: Part II" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, July 2010)
• "Anatomy of IPCC's Mistake on Himalayan Glaciers and Year 2035" (Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, February 2010)

Jessica Benko:

• "Mother of God, Child of Zeus" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2010)

Emanuele Bompan:

• "The financing of major attempts to become greener" (Terra, November 2010)
• "Schwarzenegger launched the alliance of the regions" (Terra, November 2010)
• "Milan starts from Pisapia" (Terra, November 2010)
• "Green Report" (IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle, September 2010)

Sasha Chavkin:

• "Tracking the BP Claims Process: An Ongoing Series" (ProPublica, July 2010 - Present)
• "New Killer: Climate Change Threatens Homes and Livelihoods" (YaleGlobal, July 2010)

Wes Enzinna:

• "Big Meat on Campus" (Mother Jones, November/December 2010)

Angela Jane Evancie

• "Greening the Afterlife" (A series for North Country Public Radio, August-October 2010)

Adam Federman:

• "Khimki forest defenders felled by Kremlin, but struggle will continue" (Waging Nonviolence, December 2010)
• "The Upper Delaware and Natural Gas Drilling" (WBAI New York with Hugh Hamilton, November 2010)
• "Bridge Fuel to Nowhere" (The Nation, October 2010)
• "Reading Russia's Protest Movement" (Waging Nonviolence, September 2010)
• "A rare victory for the environment and civil society in Russia" (Waging Nonviolence, August 2010)
• "Russia's forest defenders: A campaign to save Moscow's Khimki Forest heats up" (Waging Nonviolence, August 2010)
• "Lost" (Adirondack Life, September/October 2010)
• "Choose Your Friends Wisely" (Earth Island Journal, August 2010)
• "The Upper Delaware's Last Stand" (Earth Island Journal, June 2010)

Vanessa Gregory:

• "Indefensible" (American Prospect, December 2010)
• "Ultra Committed" (Runner's World, December 2010)
• "Southern Food: The Movie" (The Atlantic Blog, June 2010)
• "Rugged Country, Rugged History in California's Owens Valley" (The New York Times, May 2010)
• "Visiting Audubon's Still-Fine Feathered Friends" (New York Times, April 2010)
• "Winning Without Wheat" (Men's Journal, February 2010)

Mason Inman:

• "Has the World Already Passed Peak Oil?" (National Geographic News, November 2010)
• "Mining the truth on coal supplies" (National Geographic News,  September 2010)
• "Skill Up, Party Down" (YES! Magazine, September 2010)
• "Warming solution: just stop cold?" (National Geographic News, September 2010)
• "Sudden climate shifts can occur without warning" (American Geophysical Union, September 2010)
• "Pakistan flooding because of farms?" (National Geographic News, September 2010)
• "Can Geoengineering Halt Sea-Level Rise?" (Science NOW, August 2010)
• "Too Green to Fail" (The Economist, July 2010)
• "Asian water shortages may not be as bad as previously thought"
  (National Geographic News, June 2010)
• "To Keep Power On, Pakistan Tries Lights Out" (National Geographic News, May 2010)
• "Saving Fuel on the Farm by Making Hay" (National Geographic News, May 2010)
• "Early Hurricane Forecasting: Don't bet the farm on it" (American Geophysical Union, April 2010)
• "Working with Water" (Nature Reports, April 2010)
• "The geoengineering genie" (Nature Reports Climate Change, April 2010)
• "Settling the Science on Himalayan Glaciers" (Nature Reports Climate Change, March 2010)
• "Strongest Hurricanes May Double in Frequency" (National Geographic News, January 2010)

Andy Kroll

• "The Face of An American Lost Generation" (TomDispatch.com, October 2010)
• "Farewell, Bailout Nation?" (Mother Jones, October 2010)
• "A Crack in Wall Street's Foreclosure Pipeline" (Mother Jones, September 2010)
• "Boehner on Lobbying: Nothing to Say" (Mother Jones, September 2010)
• "Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons" (Mother Jones, August 2010)
• Ongoing Reporting at Mother Jones, DC Bureau

Molly Loomis:

• "The Murie Center's Expedition to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" (August 2010)
• "Critical Alaska Habitat Spared from Oil and Natural Gas Development" (National Geographic News, July 2010)
• "Qinghai Province, China" (Sierra, July/August 2010)
• "Eco Checkup: Gauging the health of the Tetons" (Jackson Hole Magazine, Summer/Fall 2010)
• "China's Culture Hub" (Afar, July/August 2010)
• "Solar Decathalon: Cutting Edge Homes of Tomorrow" (Natural Home Magazine, March/April 2010)

Phil McKenna:

• "Turbines could tap the Mississippi's power" (Technology Review, November 2010)
• "Emission control: turning carbon trash into treasure" (New Scientist, October 2010)
• "Pioneer aquanut: how not to clean up an oil spill" (New Scientist, July 2010)
• "Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster" (New Scientist, June 2010)
• "Why deep-water oil spills do their damage deep down" (New Scientist, May 2010)
• "New life for old tires" (Technology Review, April 2010)
• "Drilling deep under the U.S. to dispose of nuclear waste" (New Scientist, April 2010)
• "Xu Xing: Unearthing how dinosaurs became birds" (New Scientist, February 2010)
• "Solar Shingles See the Light of Day" (MIT Technology Review, January 2010)

Jeremy Miller:

• "Oil and Water Don't Mix with California Agriculture" (High Country News, December 2010)
• "Down the Black Hole" (High Country News, October 2010)
• "Once More Unto the Breach" (High Country News, October 2010)
• "Ghost Story" (5280 Magazine, July 2010)
• "Mountains of mercury: The pollution costs of cement production" (High Country News, January 2010)

Nick Miroff:

• "Cuba's Rescue Plan Opens Doors to Market Reforms" (NPR,
• November 2010)
• "Cuba: Saving socialism, with help from the free market" (GlobalPost, November 2010)
• "Dancers Leap Over U.S.-Cuba Political Barriers" (NPR, November 2010)
• "Mexican drug cartel forces lawyer's video confessions" (Washington Post, October 2010)
• "Threat grows as Mexican cartel beefs up U.S. presence" (NPR, November 2010)
• "Cubans Flock to Evangelism to Fill Spiritual Vacuum" (NPR, October 2010)
• "Racked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif. vote on legalizing marijuana" (Washington Post, September 2010)
• "Drug lord 'La Barbie' takes spotlight in Mexico City" (Washington Post, September 2010)
• "Reform on the Range: Cubans Heed the Call to Farm" (NPR, September 2010)
• "Castro Appearance Adds Speculation About Role" (NPR, September 2010)
• "Cuba Celebrates Fidel Castro's 84th Birthday" (GlobalPost, August 2010)
• "Cartels' cash flows across borders" (Washington Post, August 2010)
• "Drug courriers using disguises to move along border" (Washington Post, August 2010)
• "Stepped-up efforts by U.S., Mexico fail to stem flow of drug money south" (Washington Post, August 2010)
• "Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S." (Washington Post, July 2010)
• "Oil spill: a boon for Cuba?" (GlobalPost, June 2010)
• "Cuba in cycles: a writer looks back" (GlobalPost, June 2010)
• "Catholic Church Widens Its Role in Cuban Politics" (NPR, June 2010)
• "Spreading Digital Revolution in a Cuban Living Room" (NPR, April 2010)
• "In Raul Castro's Cuba, A Limit on New Freedoms" (NPR, April 2010)
• "Spreading Digital Revolution in a Cuban Living Room" (NPR, April 2010)

Sierra Murdoch:

• "If It Began in Appalachia" (The Solutions Journal, November 2010)
• "Farewell to the Assembly Line" (Next American City, Fall 2010)
• "A Desperate Clinch: Coal Production Confronts Water Scarcity" (Circle of Blue, August 2010)
• "Hollowed Ground" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2010)

Annie Murphy:

• "Father Copper" (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2010)
• "New Hope Digs in for Trapped Miners" (NPR, October 2010)
• "Trapped Miners in Chile: families camp out above ground - awaiting loved ones' rescue" (Christian Science Monitor, September 2010)
• "For Chile, Colossal Trouble on Easter Island" (NPR, September 2010)
• "Chilean Miners Mark a Month Underground" (NPR, September 2010)
• "Chile: Frustration Grows over Slow Quake Recovery" (NPR, September 2010)
• "Letters of Love Carried by 'Doves' to Chilean Miners" (NPR, August 2010)
• "One Laptop" (World Vision Report, August 2010)
• "Iquitos, Peru: Gateway to the Amazon" (NPR, July 2010)
• "Toll Of Oil Drilling Felt In Peru's Amazon Basin" (NPR, June 2010)
• "Iquitos, Peru: Gateway to the Amazon" (NPR, July 2010)
• "Not Since Pinochet, Chile's Army Back on the Streets" (NPR, March 2010)

Emily Peterson:

• "Can the Louisiana Coast Be Saved?" (Middlebury Magazine, Fall 2010)
• "Think Oysters, Not Oil" (Grist, June 2010)

Catherine Price:

• "101 Places Not to See Before You Die" (Published by HarperPaperbacks)
• "What Would It Take for You to Be Still?" (O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2010)
• "The No Plan Vacation" (O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2010)
• "White Whiskey" (Men's Journal, April 2010)
• "Rebooting the Body" (Popular Science, February 2010)

April Rabkin

• "Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election" (Bagnews, September 2010)
• "A Visit to the Shrine of Afghanistan's National Hero" (Slate, September 2010)
• "China's TV Host Stays True to Self to Build Empire" (Fast Company, September 2010)
• "Cozying Up to the Taliban" (Foreign Policy, August 2010)
• "China's High-Growth Ghost Towns" (Foreign Policy, February 2010)

Kevin Redmon

• "The Shadow Government" (Middlebury Magazine, May 2010)
• "The New Abu Ghraib" (The Atlantic, May 2010)
• "Coffee Obsessives" (Washingtonian, April 2010)
• "Baristas mix it up at D.C. latte art throwdowns" (Washington Post, March 2010)
• "Who Am I?" (Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2010)

Molly Samuel

• "Island Fox" (Encyclopedia of Life, December 2010)
• "Pika Politics" (High Country News, April 2010)
• "Audio Postcard: Bodie, CA" (High Country News, April 2010)

Christopher Weber:

• "Why the BP and GM Chrysler Bankruptcies Foreshadow Big Problems for the Gulf Cleanup" (Huffington Post, July 2010)

Malia Wollan:

• "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction" (New York Times, November 2010)
• "Mapping Traffic's Toll on Wildlife." (New York Times, September 2010)
• "Inquiry Sifting Cause of Blast in the Bay Area" (New York Times, September 2010)
• "After Blast, Uneasiness for Residents Going Home" (New York Times, September 2010)
• "Dispute Over Pesticide for California Strawberries Has Implications Beyond State" (New York Times, June 2010)
• "A Place With Good Vibrations" (New York Times, April 2010)
• "A Strange Brew May Be a Good Thing" (New York Times, March 2010)
• "Grapevine Moth Forces Quarantine for Part of Napa Valley" (New York Times, March 2010)

2009

Mason Inman:

• “Hot, Flat, Crowded—and Preparing for the Worst” (Science, October 2009)  *Recipient of IUCN-Reuters Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting
• “The Climate Change Game” (Nature Reports, October 2009)
• “Five Last-Ditch Schemes to Avert Warming Disaster” (National Geographic News, September 2009)
• "Sea Power” (World Watch, May/June 2009)
• “Hot New High-Tech Energy Source Is ... Wood?” (National Geographic News, March 2009)
• “Where Warming Hits Hard” (Nature Reports, January 2009)

Sam Kean:

• "Eco-Alchemy in Alberta" (Science, November 2009)

Carolyn Kormann:

• “Retreat of Andean Glaciers Foretells Global Water Woes” (Yale Environment 360, April 2009)

• “Last Days of the Glacier” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2009)

Molly Loomis:

• “Green on White: A 350.org Action on the Apex of Antarctica” (Wend Magazine, Fall 2009)
• “The Hoary Headed Fathers: An Historical Guide to Classic Tetons Moderates” (Climbing, September 2009)

Phil McKenna:

• "Massive poisoning need to keep carp invaders from Great Lakes" (New Scientist, December 2009)
• "Keep on trucking" (New Scientist, September 2009)
• "'Eating wildlife is part of Chinese culture'" (New Scientist, July 2009)
• "Could your trashcan solve the energy crisis?" (New Scientist, April 2009)
• "Letting the Dogs out (to Sea)" (NWF, April 2009)

Jeremy Miller:

• “The Violent Twilight of Oil” (The New York Times, Green Inc: October 2009)
• “Restoring an Ailing River in California” (The New York Times, Green Inc: October 2009)
• “Rebooting Urban Watersheds” (High Country News, June 2009)
• “On the Waterfront” (High Country News, June 2009)
• “Water Scarcity and the Western Oil Shales” (The New York Times, Green Inc: June 2009)

Nick Miroff:

• "Scientists Work to Protect Cuba's Unspoiled Reefs" (NPR, December 2009)
• “Postcard from Cuba” (NPR, August 2009)
• “Cuba’s Resorts Welcome a New Clientele: Cubans” (NPR, August 2009)
• “Troubled Waters” (Global Post, July 2009)

Annie Murphy:

• “Lithium can charge Bolivian economy” (Marketplace, May 2009)
• "Bolivian farmers fueled up by soybeans" (Marketplace, January 2009)

Lygia Navarro:

• “Inheritance of Dust” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2009)
• “Tropical Depression” Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2009

Catherine Price:

• “Moonshine Returns” (Salon, September 2009)
• “Regulating Biosolids” (Grist, May 2009)
• “Sludge—Farmer’s Friend or Toxic Slime?” (Grist, May 2009)
• “Businesses struggle to profit from sewage sludge” (Grist, May 2009)
• “For some eco-pioneers, solving the sludge problem means getting their hands dirty” (Grist, May 2009)
• “The Locavore’s Dilemma” (Slate, March 2009)

April Rabkin:

• "China’s Top Muckrakers Stop Digging" (Foreign Policy, September 2009)

Shadi Rahimi:

• “Winneman Wintu sues for destruction of cultural sites” (Indian Country Today, May 2009)

Kevin Redmon:

• “Being Katy Abbott” (Middlebury Magazine, Fall 2009)
• "Then They Can Ride" (Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2009)
• "Grape Expectations" (Middlebury Magazine, Spring 2009)

Molly Samuel:

• “Autobiography of a Place” (KQED, September 2009)
• “Edible Expectations at the Conservatory of Flowers” (KQED, May 2009)
• “Human/Nature” (KQED, April 2009)

Heather Smith:

• “Looks Great, Less Nutritious?” (Mother Jones, September/October 2009)

Forrest Wilder:

• “The Fire This Time” (The Texas Observer, August 2009)
• “Injured Hearts, Injured Minds” (The Texas Observer, August 2009)
• “Silent Springs” (The Texas Observer, May 2009)

Malia Wollan:

• “Rebuilding – Out of the Ashes” (The New York Times Magazine, October 2009)
• "Parents Burning to Write It All Down" (New York Times, October 2009)
• "The Big Draw of a GPS Run" (New York Times, August 2009)
• "San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law" (New York Times, June 2009)
• "San Francisco Studies Fees to Ease Traffic" (New York Times, January 2009)
• "An Underwater Fight is Waged for the Health of San Francisco Bay" (New York Times, August 2009)

2008

Sasha Chavkin:

• “Beat the Heat” (America’s Quarterly, Winter 2008)

Molly Loomis:

• “Small, Secondhand, and Spectacular” (Natural Home, September/October 2008)

Andrew Mambondiyani:

• “Zimbabwe’s Desperate Miners Ravage the Land” (Yale Environment 360, November 2008)

Phil McKenna:

• “It Takes Just One Village to Save a Species” (The New York Times, September 2008)

Jeremy Miller:

• “Tyranny of the test – one year as a Kaplan coach in the public schools” (Harper’s, September 2008)
• “Filling New York’s ‘Vacancies’” (Gotham’s Gazette, January 2008)

Catherine Price:

• “The Anonymity Experiment” (Popular Science, February 2008)

April Rabkin:

• “China’s Inside Game” (The New York Times, July 2008)

Shadi Rahimi:

• “Follow the Money Deep Underground” (Mother Jones, December 2008)
• “Awaiting Klamath dam removal” (Indian Country Today, December 2008)
• “2008 Bioneers Conference hosts first indigenous tent” (Indian Country Today, October 2008)

• “Courts OK use of sewage sludge on sacred mountain” (Indian Country Today, August 2008)

Heather Smith:

• “To Bee or Not to Bee” (Gourmet, August 2008)
• “To Eat Local, Kill Local” (San Francisco Magazine, August 2008)

Adam Welz:

• "Ethanol’s African Land Grab" (Mother Jones, March/April 2009)

Forrest Wilder:

• “How the Waste Was Won” (The Texas Observer, March 2009)

Malia Wollan:

• “An Underwater Fight Is Waged for the Health of the San Francisco Bay” (The New York Times, August 2008)
• “How Globalization Kills Chickens for Their Parts” (Meatpaper, June 2008)

2007

Mason Inman:

• “Global Warming ‘Tipping Points’ Reached, Scientist Says” (National Geographic News, December 2007)

Heather Smith:

• “Bee Not Afraid” (Slate, July 2007)