Writing

Ask Umbra®
Astute advice to green your life on Grist.org

Not-So-Smart Phones?
Ask Umbra: Are cell phones safe to use?

All you need is gloves?
Ask Umbra gives relationship advice to a couple battling it out over ‘eco-stress’

Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Why don’t people talk about population?
A Grist special series on the green side of Jonathan Franzen and ‘Freedom’

Scents and Sensibility
Ask Umbra on what stinks about perfume, cologne, and fragrant body products

Pick of the litter
Ask Umbra on sustainable choices for cat litter

Oy milk!
Ask Umbra on the impacts of and alternatives to milk

My two breast friends
Ask Umbra addresses environmental links to breast cancer

Slimeburger in paradise?
Ask Umbra on avoiding ‘pink slime’ in ground beef and flushing kitty litter

Clean Hair Act
Ask Umbra on hair dye that won’t kill you or the planet

Potty Talk
Ask Umbra wipes up the confusion on TP, pee rags, and bidets

For more, see Ask Umbra on Grist.org

Other Writing

Why Jonathan Ames is never bored to death
The writer on his HBO show, break-ups and casting Jason Schwartzman to play himself

After London, Feeling Fear on the Metro
NPR All Things Considered

Urbivore’s Dilemma
A column chronicling one takeout eater’s conversion to Community Supported Agriculture

Oh, reel-y?
Watching the green screens at the Environmental Film Festival in D.C.

Sunshine on our Shoulders
Tens of thousanda march for climate action

Police State of Mind
Copenhagen cops cast pall over the city