Erin Barnes: Citizen Reporter

In my dreams all people are born equal and all rivers are free flowing.

Experience

After a short stint working for a consulting firm for EPA's Clean Air Markets Division, I left Virginia to work at the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition in Portland, Oregon. While I was out west I cut my teeth in environmental journalism at the Sustainable Industries Journal and did some small business and community organizing.

I left Portland to work on my masters in environmental management at the Yale School of Foresty and Environmental Studies. My research focused on the economic impacts of a dam project on the Rio Madeira from Porto Velho, Brazil upstream to Pando-Beni, Bolivia, and of water quality and public health impacts in León, Nicaragua. At F&ES I co-founded SAGE Magazine with two dear friends and organized Yale's Global Perspectives on Large Dams conference with some amazing hydrophiliacs.

I worked for a bit as an assistant editor of environmental affairs for Men's Journal and now I write on climate change and adaptation for the United Nations Development Programme and I do freelance reporting for Men's Journal (you'd think they would have a real website, but they don't, that's why there's no link here), Plenty, New York, National Geographic's the Green Guide and E magazines.

Today I live in Brooklyn, New York.

Some Clips

November 2008: Resurrecting Eden: In Iraq, where water diversion is an attack and environmental restoration a battle, Azzam Alwash is winning. Men's Journal.

September 2008: Paddling the Seas: Jon Bowermaster's Descending the Dragon chronicles 800 miles of Vietnam's craggy coastline and those who call it home. Men's Journal.

September 2008: Eat Well on the Road. Men's Journal.

28 August 2008: Lush Employees Go Naked. New York Magazine Daily Intel

18 July 2008: Brazilian Tribes Protest Plans for a Controversial Amazonian Dam. Plenty Magazine.

3 April 2008: Sending Invasive Rats Packing. Plenty Magazine.

25 March 2008. How to Pick the Most Eco-Friendly Orange Juice. National Geographic's the Green Guide.

February 2008. The Last Icebergs: Icebergs are a World Apart, but One Upon Which Life Desperately Depends, a photo essay of Camille Seaman's work on two poles. Men's Journal.

Other Things of Interest

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Nothing to toy with: Keeping your child safe from toy hazards by Katie Charles. New York Daily News. 17 December 2008.

Chug Without Fear by Tobin Hack. Men's Journal.

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Global Push for an Environmental Future Victimizes OPEC Nations; Saudi Arabia Cries Into Oily Hankie

If the United Nations Climate Change Convention's fourteenth meeting in Poznan, Poland, this month has taught us anything, it’s that the game of climate change has a lot of losers, seriously threatening the lives and livelihoods of the three billion people who live on less than US$2 per day, those who live without proper sanitation, those dependent on increasingly variable rainfall for agricultural subsistence, those without access to clean water and those without proper health care. But let’s not forget about the real victims here: those who have spent the last century getting rich as hell on oil.

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