Stories by Sandra Steingraber

Sandra Steingraber is the author of "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment" and "Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood." She is the founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking. subscribe to Sandra Steingraber's feed

Will Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Stop Meaning Anything When Climate Change Hits?

Posted on: May 20, 2013, Source: Orion Magazine

My kids and their friends and everyone roughly their age will, in fact, be the last human beings to remember a stable, predictable procession of seasons.

Sandra Steingraber's Moving Letter: From Jail on Earth Day

Posted on: Apr 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Steingraber issued a letter from Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York after being jailed for civil disobedience.

Bill Moyers: A Mother's War Against Toxic Trespassers

Posted on: Apr 20, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

With government captured by the very industries it’s supposed to regulate, the time for direct action is now.

Will Fracking Sicken and Kill More New Yorkers Than it Employs?

Posted on: Oct 18, 2012, Source: New Yorkers Against Fracking

Here is why we need a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment to determine what high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing would mean for the health of New Yorkers.

Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sandra Steingraber Issues a Call for Action and a Warning to the Gas Industry

Posted on: Aug 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet

I choose to belong to a vision of an unfractured New York that turns its back on 19th century thinking and death-dealing fossil fuels and leads the world in the creation of a clean energy economy.

The Human Cancer Risks Posed by Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction

Posted on: Apr 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We cancer survivors, who know something about the fragility of life, hereby declare that the exchange of life-giving water for death-dealing fossil fuel is unacceptable.

Why I'm Donating My Heinz Award Money to the Fight Against Fracking

Posted on: Sep 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Sandra Steingraber beautifully shares why the fight against fracking is so important.

My Children, The Food Experiment

Posted on: Jun 19, 2006, Source: Center for Ecoliteracy

My kids have never seen food industry ads -- their food preferences have been entirely shaped by direct experience.