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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Meet the BART-stopping woman behind “Black Lives Matter”
Two activists who devised the phrase "Black Lives Matter" discuss its origins -- and why they took their demonstration to the Bay Area's transit system last week.
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Cheap gasoline summons the dread SUV from its jumbo grave
SUVs never had much on their cheaper, more efficient, safer compact-car competitors. But every time the price of fuel drops, the zombies return.
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Long-weekend pastime: Look for oil-by-rail disasters near you
ProPublica's interactive 50-state map is the best tour guide yet for this increasingly common hazard of North America's energy boom.
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This Native American activist was kicked out of the Senate for singing thanks
"Goosebumps crawled up my arms and I thought to myself, SING! Sing you fool!" says Greg Grey Cloud, the Sioux whose song made Elizabeth Warren grimace.
