Publishing History

BOOKS

Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994)

Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988)

COMMENTARIES

"Planning for a Rainy Day: Addressing Natural Hazards in State Land-use Planning Laws," Planning & Environmental Law, January 2004

REPORTS

The State of Tribal Transportation Programs (Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2007), with Stuart Meck and Rebecca Retzlaff

Landslide Hazards and Planning, Planning Advisory Service Report 533/534, (Chicago: American Planning Association, September 2005), project editor with Sanjay Jeer and Paula Gori

Planning for Wildfires, Planning Advisory Service Report 529/530 (Chicago: American Planning Association, March 2005), with Stuart Meck

Firewise Post-Workshop Assessment Final Report, prepared for National Fire Protection Association, 2003 (with contributions from Lincoln Walther and Lynn Ross)

Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 512 (Chicago: American Planning Association, March 2003), with Stuart Meck and Rebecca Retzlaff

Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 483/484 (Chicago: American Planning Association, December 1998), with contributions from Kenneth C. Topping, Charles D. Eadie, and Robert E. Deyle and Richard A. Smith

Planning and Zoning for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 482 (Chicago: American Planning Association, December 1998)

Industrial Performance Standards for a New Century, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 444 (Chicago: American Planning Association, April 1993)

The Farm Credit Crisis in Iowa (Iowa City: Legislative Extended Assistance Group, University of Iowa, February 1985)

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The Agricultural Policy Debate: An Annotated Bibliography (Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, August 1988)

PROCEEDINGS (as editor)

Linking Conservation, Land-Use Regulation, and Science, Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the American Planning Association, Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, September 15-16, 1999

ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS

Ten articles on environmental justice, natural hazards, feedlots, and disaster law in Planning and Urban Design Standards, American Planning Association (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006).

Sections 2.3 (Climate), 3 (Site Design Concepts), and 5 (Site Planning: A Hypothetical Exercise), Site Planning Fundamentals: A Workbook for Central America and the Caribbean, James A. Hecimovich, ed. (Chicago: American Planning Association, 2001).

"Environmental LULUs: In Whose Backyard?" in Planning and Community Equity, James A. Hecimovich, ed. (Chicago: American Planning Association, 1994)

"Christian Perspective on Environmental Justice" in Care of the Earth: An Environmental Resource Manual for Church Leaders, Tina B. Krause, ed. (Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology, 1994)

FEATURE ARTICLES

“Fixing the Future,” Planning, August/September 2005

“Models for Mitigating Wildfire Hazards Through Zoning,” Zoning Practice, March 2005

“Principles of Safe Growth,” The Commissioner, Winter 2005

“All Fired Up: Cutting the Risk of Wildfires,” Planning, November 2004

"Faith-Based Planned Developments: Sorting Out the Uses," Zoning News, June 2003

"Who's Got the Energy?," Planning, October 2002
"A Christian Perspective on Environmental Justice," Earth Letter, January 2002

"Creating Urban Park Legacies Through Collaboration," PAS Memo, August 2001 (with Mary E. Eysenbach and Megan S. Lewis)

"Sun, Wind, and Building Design," Zoning News, December 2000

"Using Planning to Enhance the Urban Environment," Industry and Environment, United Nations Environment Programme, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall 2000)

"Planning for Industrial Survival," Zoning News, September 2000

"Give a Shelter a Home," Zoning News, May 2000

"Parks: Green Spaces May Calm and Cool Us," SEJournal, Spring 2000

"Considering Sprawwwl," SEJournal, Spring 1999 (with Stuart Meck)

"Confining the Impacts of Confined Animal Feeding," Zoning News, April 1999

"Post-Disaster Zoning Opportunities," Zoning News, August 1998

"The Challenge of Industrial Ecology," Zoning News, June 1998

"Public Education: Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area," Planning, April 1998

"Implementation: Tennessee Riverpark," Planning, April 1998

"Appraising Sustainable Development: How Green Are My Property Values?", Valuation Insights and Perspectives, Fourth Quarter 1997

"Zoning for Flood Hazards," Zoning News, October 1997

"Redeveloping Brownfields," PAS Memo, May 1997

"Vacating and Replatting Platted Lands," Zoning News, May 1997

"The Problem of Antiquated Subdivisions," Zoning News, April 1997

"Zoning and Big Box Religion," Zoning News, November 1996

"Sustainable Development: Converting Motherhood and Apple Pie into Substance," Environment & Development, September/October 1996; reprinted in Renewable Resources Journal, Summer 1997

"Death and the Power of Place," Conscious Choice, May/June 1996

"'Nature Bats Last': The Politics of Floodplain Management," Environment & Development, January/February 1996

"Rapid Response Tools for Waterfront Change," Zoning News, November 1995

"Adult Uses Neither Die nor Fade Away," Zoning News, September 1995

"Land-use Planning and Environmental Justice," Environment & Development, July 1995

"Zoning for Eternity," Zoning News, May 1995; reprinted in Catholic Cemetery

"Environmental Justice in America: Where Are We?", Earth Day Times, 1995

"Conservation Reserve Program: A Walk on the Wildlife Side," Environment & Development, March 1995

"Water Over the Dam: Lessons in Floodplain Management," Environment & Development, September 1994

"Planning for Wildlife Migration Corridors," Environment & Development, May 1994

"Biology of Wildlife Migration Corridors," Environment & Development, April 1994

"A Primer on Restrictive Covenants," Zoning News, February 1994

"When Cities and Counties Cooperate," Zoning News, November 1993

"Home, Safe Home?", Zoning News, September 1993

"A Planner's Guide to EPCRA," Environment & Development, July 1993

"Of Mines, Quarries, and Zoning Quandaries," Zoning News, June 1993

"Recycling for Jobs and Dollars," Environment & Development, June 1993

"Toxics Use Reduction," Environment & Development, March 1993

"The Performance Standards Approach to Industrial Zoning," Zoning News, February 1993

"Avoiding the Sting: Cities and Contaminated Sites," Environment & Development, November 1992

"Toxic Buyouts: You Can't Go Home Again," The Neighborhood Works, August-September 1992

"Airport Siting: The Environmental Challenges," Environment & Development, July 1992

"Ready or Not, Stormwater Deadlines Loom," Environment & Development, May 1992 (with Amy Van Doren)

"Regulating Hillside Development," Zoning News, March 1992

"Urban Trees, Air Quality, and Energy Conservation," Environment & Development, March 1992; reprinted in City Seeds, Fall 1997

"Local Incinerator Battle Not Just Another NIMBY," The Neighborhood Works, December 1991-January 1992

"Silver Linings in the S&L Bailout," PAS Memo, November 1991 (with Marya Morris)

"Regulating the Use of Waterways," Zoning News, October 1991

"Blue-Collar Groups Are Saying, 'Not in Our Backyard'," Planning, October 1991

"Training Citizen Planning Officials," Zoning News, June 1991

"Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances," Zoning News, May 1991 (with Marya Morris)

"Regulating Development on Inland Lakes," Zoning News, March 1991

"Making Zoning Enforcement Effective," Zoning News, December 1990

"Along the Soft Path," Planning, September 1990

"Interviewing Tactics Vital to the Oral Historian--and to Any Interviewer," Writer's Digest, April 1990

"Two Forks Stalled--for Now," Planning, April 1990

"Alaska's Northwest Area Plan," Planning, March 1990

"Hanging Together," Planning, January 1990

"Farmers and Environmentalists: The Attraction Is Chemical, The Nation, October 16, 1989

"Riverfront Gamblers," Planning, September 1989

"Omaha Held Hostage," The Progressive, May 1989

"Chapters, Distinguished Service," Planning, March 1989

"Data for Sale," Planning, January 1989

"Waste Not, Want Not," Planning, October 1988

"Honorable Mentions," Planning, April 1988

"Hazardous Waste: What Goes Around Comes Around," Planning, February 1988

"Brass Roots," Planning, August 1987

"You Can't Get There from Here," Planning, July 1987

"The Mayor Was Right," Historic Preservation, May/June 1987

"Training Wheels," Planning, April 1987

"Tools of the Trade," Planning, February 1987

"Sheltering the Homeless," Planning, December 1986

"Small Towns, Big Dreams," Planning, November 1986

"Learning to Live with Airports," Planning, October 1986 (with Ruth Knack)

"Garbage In, Garbage Out," Planning, October 1986

"Winning Ways," Planning, April 1986

"The Broke Banks of Cherokee," The Lutheran, March 5, 1986

"Saving the System, Not the Farmers," The Nation, January 18, 1986

"The Bank Is Closed," The Lutheran Standard, November 15, 1985

"FarmAid Puts Spotlight on a Populist Alternative," The Guardian, October 9, 1985

"AID: The Real Challenge May Be Finding Intelligent Uses for Money Raised," Prairie Sun, October 1985

"Neighbors United in Need," Country Journal, October 1985

"The Shaky Farm Credit System," The Nation, May 11, 1985

"Farm Protest Hits the Statehouses," The Nation, January 19, 1985

"The Roots of Agrarian Protest," U.S. Farm News, June 1980

GUEST COLUMNS/EDITORIALS

"The Essence of Sustainable Planning," American Forests, Autumn 1997

"Industrial Performance Standards for a Cleaner Environment," Area Development, October 1993

"Don't Overlook Value of the Trade Press," SEJournal, Fall 1993

"Looking Beyond Blame to Environmental Cleanup," The Neighborhood Works, June/July 1993

"The Need for Two-Fisted Liberalism," North American Farmer, January 1989

"Soil-conservation Policy Must Be Dealt With Now, Before Iowa Mirrors Ethiopia," Des Moines Register, June 3, 1985 (with Gary Lamb)

"Farm Prices Are Heart of Crisis," The Daily Iowan, February 27, 1985

"Decontrol--the Consumer Suffers," The Daily Iowan, July 11, 1983

"How We Learn to Love the Bomb," The Daily Iowan, March 1, 1983

"Consumer Group Fights Utilities," The Daily Iowan, February 17, 1983

"C/LEC Doorknockers Knock Gas Deregulation," the weekly news, September 9, 1982

"Citizens Party Gains Show Hope for Grass Roots Power of People," The Daily Iowan, April 4, 1982

"Save Energy for Local Economic Growth," the weekly news, August 27, 1981

"More than a Housing Investment," The Daily Iowan, February 10, 1981

"A Party Is Born--to Share the Wealth," Des Moines Register, November 1, 1980

"Does Atom Power Create Jobs?", The Plain Dealer, August 18, 1977

"Is Nuclear Power Truly Needed?", The Plain Dealer, August 17, 1977

"Is Nuclear Power Really Cheap?", The Plain Dealer, August 16, 1977

"Bloated Military Budget and Starving Civilian Programs," The Plain Dealer, January 20, 1977

"Fallacious B-1 Bomber Jobs Argument," The Plain Dealer, June 12, 1976 (with James Bachmaier)

BOOK REVIEWS

A Land on Fire, James David Fahn; Trouble in Paradise, J. Timmons Roberts and Nikki Demetria Thanos; and Tropical Forests, International Jungle, Marie-Claude Smouts, in SEJournal, Winter 2003

Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation that Works, Jim Motavalli, in SEJournal, Fall 2002

Not in My Back Yard: The Handbook, Jane Anne Morris, in The Neighborhood Works, February-March 1995

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, Robert Gottlieb, in The Nation, February 14, 1994

L.A.'s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing, and Action, Eric Mann with the WATCHDOG Organizing Committee, in The Neighborhood Works, February-March 1992

The Fate of the Forest, Suzanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn, in The Progressive, June 1990

Law of the Land, John Opie, and Family Farming: A New Economic Vision, Marty Strange, in The Nation, April 3, 1989

Garbage Disposal Economics: A Statistical Snapshot; An Environmental Review of Incineration Technologies; Municipal Solid Waste Incineration; Ash Management and Disposal; and Summary Testimonies Critiquing Environmental and Public Health Assessments on Emissions of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration, all by Institute for Local Self-Reliance, in Planning, December 1987

Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness, Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch, in Planning, December 1987

Silicon Landscapes, Peter Hill and Ann Markusen, eds.; The High Cost of High Tech: The Dark Side of the Chip, Lenny Siegel and John Markoff, in Planning, May 1986

High Hopes for High Tech: Microelectronics Policy in North Carolina, Dale Whittington, ed., in Planning, May 1986

Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaii, David Callies, in Planning, March 1986

INTERVIEWS

"Nature's Architect: An Interview with William McDonough," SEJournal, Fall 2000

"An Interview with: Fred Bosselman," Environment & Development, September/October 1996

"An Interview with: J. Gary Lawrence," Environment & Development, May/June 1996

"An Interview with: Hank Dittmar," Environment & Development, January/February 1996

"An Interview with: Scott Bernstein," Environment & Development, September/October 1995