Articles by Heather Smith

Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.

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Divestment: Making colleges do the right thing with their cash since before you were born

Divestment -- the effort to get large institutions to sell their fossil-fuel investments -- didn't come out of nowhere. Its long history began with the anti-apartheid movement.

Heather Smith Politics
Have sledgehammer, will farm

We've covered a lot of good farmland with concrete over the years. But taking it back for urban farming may not be as difficult as it sounds.

Heather Smith Food and Agriculture
Beetlemania: Invasive insect could become our billion-dollar problem

If the Khapra beetle spreads from our ports to our crops, it will eat all our food. Visit the front lines in Oakland, Calif., where customs agents struggle to keep the buggers at bay.

Heather Smith Food and Agriculture
Al rodente: Could squirrel meat come back into vogue?

Squirrel is like the drive-through cheeseburger of the forest -- albeit a cheeseburger that needs to be gutted first.

Heather Smith Food and Agriculture