We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable price of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive.

—Sandra Steingraber,
Living Downstream, 2nd ed.

In the Media

Selected interviews, news stories, reviews, and videos

06/04/11
Binghamton Big Splash

This day-long conference featured panel discussions on a range of topics such as the health effects from exposure to drilling chemicals and leasing issues. Key Note Address at 1:00 PM Sandra Steingraber, Author and Ecologist Steingraber’s latest work, Raising Elijah, was recently released.  Watch the keynote address on YouTube

06/01/11
Review: Library Journal by Julianne J. Smith

VERDICT Steingraber combines the best of humorous science writers like Mary Roach with the soaring beauty of writers like Terry Tempest Williams. Fans of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed should flock to Elijah.

05/30/11
Cancer Crusader by Allison VuchnichIn “Cancer Crusader,” 16:9 correspondent Allison Vuchnich introduces you to a woman who’s been called a poet with a knife. She’s a scientist on a mission to stop cancer where it starts – and to make you listen and wake-up to the facts.  Watch the show

05/27/11
Democracy Now: The Health Crisis Surrounding Natural Gas Extraction by Amy Goodman

Yesterday, New York state lawmakers held a hearing on the health impacts of fracking, an issue that until now has received little media attention. Democracy Now! interviews Sandra Steingraber, a biologist who testified at the hearing. Watch the YouTube video     Watch or read the interview or get the podcast

04/21/11
An Earth Day Gift for Parents and Grandparents by Nancy Myers

You may also exit Raising Elijah laughing. This is a very funny book on hair-raisingly serious topics. You will get a flavor in the interview below as Sandra talks about the book. Read the full article

04/21/11
Your Call Radio by Rose Aguilar

Interview with KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco

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04/11/11
Detroit Free Press by Cassandra Spratling

Biologist-mother says protecting kids from environmental toxins is a parent's duty

It wouldn't be a stretch to call Sandra Steingraber a warrior mom. She's fighting for the future of her two children, and she is challenging other parents to join the battle: "Just as at some point we had to decide that slavery was a homicidal abomination that had to stop, we need to divorce our economy from its dependence on fossil fuels. I'm calling on parents to become abolitionists for this new age."

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04/10/11
USA Today by Liz Szabo

Speak out. Parents should support laws that protect kids, says Steingraber, author of Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. "I'm a conscientious parent, but I'm not a HEPA filter," she says. "I can't place my body between all of these hormonally active chemicals in the environment and my children. That is what government is tasked to do — to help protect us from things that we can't protect ourselves from." Read the full article

04/10/11
Ecologist Sandra Steingraber Adds Voice Against NY Water Withdrawal Bill by Coalition to Protect New York

Steingraber has joined with the Coalition to Protect New York in urging the New York Legislature to halt further consideration of a massive water withdrawal bill until public hearings are held on the measure.  Read the full articleWatch the Video

04/06/11
“Talk of Iowa,” Iowa Public Radio by Charity Nebbe

Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife, "Steingraber blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor. Now, in her new book Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them--and all children--from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit.

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