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

The Good Food Revolution
Yes!, Spring 2009

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

BLOGS

Happy Birthday Darwin, February 11, 2009
There Will Be Drought, May 22, 2008

ON THE AIR

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

HAWAI'I
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.