Articles by Heather Smith

Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.

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Each piece of garbage has a story. This artist traces it

Jenny Odell's "Bureau of Suspended Objects" project looks at where the stuff we throw out came from, who made it, and what it means.

Heather Smith Technology
Here’s what you can fight now that Keystone XL is dead

Exploding trains and leaky pipelines: There are plenty of hotspots that climate activists could pursue now.

Heather Smith Technology
What could a Cold War on global warming achieve? Ask the Pentagon

Decades of history show how much the U.S. could achieve through crash investments in green tech -- and how unpredictably they could pay off.

Heather Smith Technology
How to explain climate change to teens

Follow along as a science educator from the Alliance for Climate Education finds lively ways to teach teenagers about rising temperatures.

Heather Smith Culture