BROOKE JARVIS

Brooke Jarvis covers the interplay of politics, the economy, and the environment. She has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Aeon Magazine, The Verge, Sierra Magazine, Salon.com, Grist, and Yale Environment 360, among others. She is the former web editor and a current contributing editor of YES! Magazine, and a consultant and editor for Alex Steffen's project, Planetary.

In past lives, Brooke has been in charge of compost and recycling programs for a remote leprosy settlement in Hawaii and built trails in state and national parks across the country. A Tennessee native, she now lives on Puget Sound.

• The Verge
  Come and Get It: How Sperm Became One of America's Hottest Exports
  An intimate industry goes global.
• Rolling Stone
  Q&A: Ezra Miller's Arctic Activism
  Big Coal's Big Problems
  Don't Ignore the Drought
  Marco Rubio's Defeatist Vision
  Big Tobacco's Tea Party Ties Exposed
  Shell's Arctic Drilling Experiment Has Been an Epic Failure
  Idle No More: Native-Led Protest Movement Takes on Canadian Government
  Keystone XL: State Department Dodges the Big Questions
  Australia Adds New Weather Map Color for Extreme Heat
• Yale Environment 360
  Can a Divestment Campaign Move the Fossil Fuel Industry?
  

• Aeon Magazine
  A New Normal
  The first night that gay marriage became legal in Washington was a strange mixture of beauty and bureaucracy.
  

• The Atlantic
  Is It Time for Climate Scientists to Get Political?
  After the National Review compared him to a convicted child molester, climatologist Michael Mann decided to fight back. He encourages his colleagues to do the same.
• The Washington Post
  Using Twitter to track public health
  

• Grist
  Farming a Better Fish?
  Unanswered questions in the quest for sustainable aquaculture.

• YES! Magazine
  Can't Buy My Vote: Maine's Fight for Fair Elections
  For more than a decade, a groundbreaking Clean Elections law has helped protect Maine politics from the influence of big money. But what’s happening now that big spenders have free rein to influence elections—and what does it mean for the rest of the country? (Funded by The Media Consortium in collaboration with We The People.)
  Empowered by the Past: Red State Co-ops Go Green
  Tim DeChristopher: Sacrifice for the Climate
  Profile for the "Breakthrough 15" issue.
  More

• Salon
  Behind the Shell Hoax
  Yes, the epic PR fail was a fake. But how did it happen? Behind the scenes of a carefully planned disaster.
• The American Prospect
  For Washington, Same-Sex Marriage Was Worth the Wait
  A dispatch from the midnight rush for marriage licenses.

• Sierra Magazine
  Meltdown
  Reevaluating climate models in light of  the faster-than-expected disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Favorite interviews

• Bearing Witness: Chris Jordan on Art, Grief, and Transformation
  Photographer Chris Jordan's latest project left him feeling grief and hopelessness. Now he wants more people to discover how productive those emotions can be.
• I’m Looking for Justice, Not Vengeance
  A 9/11 widow on working for peace when the world expects you to want revenge.
• Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies
  Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson's  research shows that what the healthiest and happiest societies have in common is not that they have more, but that what they have is more equitably shared.
• "That's Public Space, No One Can Use It."
  Interview with Mark Lakeman of the City Repair Project, a Portland group that helps neighbors turn public spaces into gathering places.