
Claire is a broadcast and print reporter. For six years as food and farming editor, Claire hosted a popular weekly radio program on KPFA-FM, in Berkeley, California, the flagship station for the Pacifica Radio Network. She also reports regularly for KQED television, PBS for Northern California.
She writes stories for national environmental magazines as well for newspapers, on-line publications, and blogs such as Ethicurian, Grist and Beacon Broadside.
Articles
Ripe for Change: Agriculture's Tipping Point
Worldwatch Institute, July/August 2006
Claire’s feature articles for World Watch Magazine include
one on corn and culture, one on rice in California, and one on the
history and invasiveness of GMOs. They are all available for free
by searching on www.worldwatch.org.
The Meaning of Food
Center for Ecoliteracy
Are GMOs Being Regulated or Not? CropChoice.com, June 2003
Guides
Reporters and Editor’s Guide to Agricultural Genetic Engineering
Environmental Media Service
Farmer’s Guide to Genetic Engineering
National
Family Farm Coalition and Farm Aid
Hawaii
Claire is an expert in the regulatory
issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. She has been studying
its social and environmental impacts in Hawai‘i. For the last
five years, Claire has been advising local groups and has conducted
several speaking tours throughout the islands including presentations
to Kauai Agricultural Advisory Board, to activist and organic farming
groups, and the general public, educating them around the risks of
genetically engineered crops and the multiple benefits of a traditional
and diverse local food and farming economy.
For more information
on GMOs in Hawai‘i, read Uncertain Peril and follow the
links at GMO FREE HAWAI‘I. |