In more than 10 years on the environment beat, Erica Gies has covered energy, water, climate policy, green business, green building and urban planning, waste of many kinds, ecosystem biology, and more. She lives in San Francisco and, in her spare time, travels and raises vegetables and native plants.
 
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The New York Times
Founded in 1851, The New York Times is the largest newspaper in the United States and is regarded as the national paper of record. The New York Times Company publishes 18 other newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune.

Ethanol Boom Creates Environmental Impact
Water Adds New Constraints to Power
Turning to Water Conservation to Save Energy
Guyana Offers a Model to Save Rain Forest
U.K. Financier Invests in Guyana's Rain Forest
As Tourism Rises in Bali, What to Do With Waste?
Bring Out Your Dead (TVs)
Responsible E-waste Recycling in Africa
Putting U.S. Trucking on a Diet
Galápagos Penguins Could Get Avian Malaria
   
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune is an English-language newspaper sold in more than 180 countries. It is part of The New York Times Company and has been based in Paris since its founding in 1887.

Plans for the World's Biggest Wind Farm
Nestlé's Thirst for Water Splits Small U.S. Town
Bottled Water Industry Triggers Strong Reactions
California Leads Toward an Energy-Efficient Future
New Wave in Energy: Turning algae into oil
Aviation Industry Examines Alternative Fuels
Waste-to-Energy Plants a Waste of Energy
Bioplastics: The challenge of viability
Businesses Join the Green Coalition of the Willing
Digital TV Switch Raises Specter of Toxic Dumping
U.K. Debates a Barrier on the Severn
How U.S. Candidates Differ on Energy Policy
   
Grist
Grist is a nonprofit online magazine based in Seattle, with contributors scattered around the world. Grist offers in-depth reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, and daily news. It has won numerous awards, including the 2006 "Webby" People's Voice Award for best online magazine.

Series: Offsets in the Climate Bill (1 of 3)
Series: Offsets in the Climate Bill (2 of 3)
Series: Offsets in the Climate Bill (3 of 3)
A Journey on China's Controversial New Tibet Train
Cleaning Up After Meth Making
Craigslist Foundation Turns to Green Networking
What Cuba Has Done Right
   
Wired News
Since 1993, Wired has chronicled the people, companies, technologies, and ideas that are transforming the world around us. Wired delivers a glimpse into the future of business, science, entertainment, education, culture, and politics. Wired magazine and Wired.com reach nearly 6 million readers per month.

Chlorine Sewage Treatment Seen as Risky
Life Inside the Biosphere Bubble
Mom's Facebook Status: Crunching Climate Data!
   
Matter Network
MatterNetwork.com reports on emerging green technologies and clean energy and their economic, political, and lifestyle impacts.

EPA Could Expand Ocean Protection, Limit CO2
Legal Rights for Nature
Corporate Sustainability Officers Find Opportunity
Goodall and Nishida Win Leakey Prize
Documentary Imagines World Without Fish
   
91.7 FM KALW
A public radio station in San Francisco, KALW airs original programming and news broadcasts from NPR and BBC. KALW was the first FM station in San Francisco and the second noncommercial FM station in the United States.

The Central Valley's Tainted Water Legacy
South Bay Wetlands Restoration Project
Golfers vs. Frogs
   
World Watch
World Watch was the award-winning bimonthly publication of the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization. The magazine covered energy, climate change, biodiversity agriculture, population, social and political developments, and other forces shaping our world. It is now defunct.

Water: Human right or commodity?
Green Building Goes Mainstream
   
E/The Environmental Magazine
This national magazine based in Connecticut is a bimonthly clearinghouse of environmental information. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is published by the nonprofit Earth Action Network.

Sustainable Seafood
Solar Industry Heats Up
Renewable Wales: From Wave Energy to Wind
Biodiesel Basics
As Falls Yosemite Falls
   
China Dialogue
China Dialogue is the world's first fully bilingual web site covering the environment. Its mission is to promote dialogue about our shared environmental problems.

The Salmon Crash
   
KQED Radio 88.5 FM
KQED Public Radio provides a variety of news and public and cultural affairs programming, including National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and the BBC. KQED is the most-listened-to public radio station in the country. Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's public affairs commentary.

When I Met an Iraqi in Syria