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Elizabeth Royte is the author of Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It; Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash; and The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest. Her writing on science and the environment has appeared in Harper's, National Geographic, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other national publications.

Email at eroyte@yahoo.com.

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"Growing Food & Urban Farmers," about New Haven's Urban Foodshed Collaborative, in Environment:Yale

"The Perky Provocateur," profile of environmental activist and Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard, in Elle

"The Last Drop," closing essay intended to leave readers feeling hopeful after reading special features on freshwater scarcity, pollution, and other ills, in National Geographic magazine

"Canis Soup," on eastern wolf genes in eastern coyotes, in Outside Magazine

"Street Farmer," on urban agriculturalist extraordinaire Will Allen, of Milwaukee's Growing Power farm, in The New York Times Magazine

"Tapped Out," on freshwater shortages, in Elle

"Meet the Zero Waste Zealots," in Mother Jones

"A Tall, Cool Drink of... Sewage," in the New York Times Magazine

An Op Ed in the New York Times on public water fountains

An article in Grist about the impact of agriculture on drinking water

An article in the New York Times about tap water in New York City

An article in OnEarth on Disney, Waste Management, and designing for the dump

An article in OnEarth on the Katrina clean up

An article in Gourmet on sustainable agriculture

An article in Gourmet about composting in San Francisco

An article in Smithsonian on the pros and cons of corn plastic

An article in OnEarth about drugs in our drinking water

An OpEd in the New York Times on electronic waste

An OpEd in the New York Times about Fresh Direct's environmental impact

An article in Discover about endocrine disrupters in water