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Stories by Erin Wiegand

Erin Wiegand is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California. Currently a project editor at North Atlantic Books, she is also the former managing editor of LiP Magazine. Her writing has appeared in LiP and In These Times, and in two books: Tipping the Sacred Cow (AK Press) and In the Beginning (HarperCollins).

We Can't Shop Our Way to Safety

Concerned with toxic chemicals, more people are buying products with labels like "organic," "green," and "natural." But a consumerist response to environmental threats is not only inadequate, it is dangerous.
Posted on Nov 16, 2007