Books by Elizabeth Grossman

  •  Chasing Molecules
    Chasing Molecules Elizabeth Grossman

    Jazz on the river

    Chasing Molecules

    Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

    Elizabeth Grossman

    Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all ...

  •  High Tech Trash
    High Tech Trash Elizabeth Grossman

    Jazz on the river

    High Tech Trash

    Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

    Elizabeth Grossman

    The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this ...

About the Author

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Elizabeth Grossman is the author of High Tech Trash, Watershed: The Undamming of America (Counterpoint Press, 2002), and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail (Sierra Club Books, 2003). She is also the co-editor of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion (Sasquatch Books, 1999).
 
Grossman’s writing has also appeared in a variety of publications, including Amicus Journal, Audubon, California Wild, Cascadia Times, Chicago Tribune, Environmental News Network, Grist, The Nation, New York Times Book Review, Newsday, Oregonian, Orion, the Patagonia catalogue, Salon.com, Seattle Times, Washington Post, and Yes!
 
A native of New York City, she has a BA in literature from Yale University. She now lives a minute’s walk from the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. When not at her desk writing she's out exploring—hiking, camping, paddling, sketching, and watching birds.