WiserEarth Editors

Chicago-born Daniel Bellow has written for newspapers in western New England for 20 years, since he waded through a swamp filled with orange water and dead birds to break the story of how the Columbia County dump was polluting the watershed of the Hudson city reservoir. At the Berkshire Eagle, he participated in the early reporting on GE's pollution of Pittsfield and the Housatonic River Valley with PCBs, and in Vermont, he covered ski areas, loggers, real estate developers, environmentalists and politicians as they all struggled for control of the environment of the Green Mountain State. Most recently, he worked on the award-winning editorial pages of the Rutland Herald and the Berkshire Eagle, writing on politics from City Hall to the United Nations, legal, economic, environmental, social, cultural and religious affairs both local and global, as well as literature, popular music and baseball. Bellow, an artist-potter who shows his work in galleries nationwide www.danielbellow.com has also worked as a real estate developer, political consultant, screenwriter and teacher. His latest project is hotfrog.org, a website that aims to serve the global sustainability and social justice movement.