Mark dowie biography
- Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.
- He is an investigative historian and former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine and former editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational feature.
- Cowhand, guitarist, investigative historian, poet.
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Mark Dowie
Mark is a founding member of the Mesa Refuge board and an active member of the local and national community of writers. He is an investigative historian and former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine and former editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational feature syndicate based in New York. His recent works include Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples and American Foundations: An Investigative History. Mark has written and published more than 200 investigative magazine articles and has won 19 journalism awards including four National Magazine Awards. He teaches science at the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Mark is a Mesa Refuge neighbor, living on Tomales Bay in Inverness, California, with his wife, the artist Wendy Schwartz, and their yellow lab, Gracie.
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Mark Dowie
Mark Dowie has written six books and received numerous journalism awards. [1]
Chez Sludge
The Food Rights Network released a major investigative report involving Mark Dowie on July 9, 2010 titled: Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters. [3] It examines collusion between the Chez Panisse Foundation and the SFPUC based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline.)
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- ↑See Mark Dowie, MIT Press, accessed July 19, 2008.
- ↑Mesa Refuge About, organizational web page, accessed June 1, 2013.
- ↑John Stauber, Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters, PRWatch, July 9, 2010