Dashka Slater
Sierra Club
Oakland, CA, United States
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Don’t Say Gay. Or Climate Change.
Frequently censored YA author Dashka Slater on Banned Book Week → Read More
Can Phoenix Remain Habitable?
ROUGHLY EVERY 45 MINUTES, someone calls the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner to report a death. Tucked into an unremarkable taupe stucco building at the edge of downtown Phoenix, the office investigates the cause of death for traffic-accident victims, suspected homicides, and any fatality that stands out as unusual in some way. That's about one out of five of the 30,000 people who… → Read More
Oil Drilling Is—Literally!—Shaking Up Oklahoma
Oil drillers duck and cover to avoid responsibility for the earthquakes they're causing → Read More
Rigging the system to keep us using dirty energy forever
Big Coal may be dying, but it's still trying to strangle clean energy in the cradle. → Read More
Did an Orangutan Die for Your Oreos?
Within your kitchen cabinets lurks an environmental hazard responsible for wiping out millions of acres of rainforest. → Read More
The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland
One teenager flicked a lighter, and two families’ lives were changed forever. → Read More
Who Made That Charcoal Briquette?
The so-called Vagabonds take on a timber challenge. → Read More
Who Made That Windshield Wiper?
Squeegees, suction and patent wars. → Read More
Who Made That Paintball?
A game born of an argument over whether the urban capitalist or the canny outdoorsman has a better instinct for survival. → Read More
Who Made That Dog Biscuit?
So long to subsisting on scavenged supper-table scraps. → Read More
Who Made That Pacifier?
An obvious improvement on knotted rags dipped in honey. → Read More