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• New documentary highlights growing risks to whistleblowers
  Earlier this week, my friend Tom Devine invited me to a special screening of the new documentary, “War on Whistleblowers,” at the Newsmuseum. Tom is the legal director at the Government Accountability Project, a group that has represented hundreds of people in over the last few decades who have exposed criminal behavior and other wrong-doing […] […]
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• Are these apps changing our lives?
  Hello! I’ve been writing a lot lately about how new apps and the proliferation of smart phones are changing our lives. Since I’ve neglected this blog for way too many months, I wanted to bring you up to date with some of these recent articles. Last week, the Washington City Paper ran my cover story […] […]
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• Will Congress bargain away the last of old growth forests?
  My latest story for Alternet examines how some of the country’s last remaining ancient forestland may be bargained away this year as a political favor to the campaign benefactors of one U.S. Senator. READ THIS STORY […]
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• New report takes aim at corporate funding for climate denial
  The Union of Concerned Scientists has just published a report outing corporations that publicly back action on global warming, while quietly bankrolling climate change denier groups. While the report acknowledged that not all corporations are engaged in this sort of Jekyll & Hyde behavior, it says many have adopted a strategy that “allows companies to ma […]
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• WWF faces new charges of corporate greenwashing
  WWF faces new charges of corporate greenwashing […]
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• Geo-medicine: Mapping our pollution exposures
  My latest post on The Atlantic’s Cities website explores geo-medicine, a new field that uses GIS mapping to correlate environmental conditions to health risks like heart attacks and cancer. There’s even a free app that allows you to map the types of toxic exposures in everyplace you’ve ever lived and correlate them to the likelihood […] […]
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