Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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Remembering the genius who got BPA out of your water bottles, and so much more
RIP Theo Colborn, a scientist who alerted us to the issue of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
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Oil pipelines are so last year, says Wall Street Journal
The so-far successful effort to halt Keystone has schooled a whole new wave of protest movements against similar projects.
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How the Black Lives Matter movement got protests’ multi-racial groove back
In the wave of protests over the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, confidence and outrage are helping people of color shed decades of caution.
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“We want democracy, but we don’t have the theory or skill to do it”
Filmmaker-author Astra Taylor talks about Occupy, debt relief, why the environmental movement needs organization more than scale, and the nature of democratic change.
