Mr. Philip Shabecoff
is is a journalist and author living in Brookline. Massachusetts. His most
recent book is Earth
Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, published
by Island Press earlier this past year (2000). He is also the author of
A
Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement (Hill &
Wang, 1993) and A
New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development
and Democracy (University Press of New England, 1996).
Mr. Sabecoff received his B.A. from Hunter College in 1955
and his M.A. from the University of Chicago. As a reporter for The New
York Times for 32 years, he served as a foreign correspondent in Europe
and Asia, White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford Administrations
and, for 14 years, as the Times’s chief environmental correspondent.
He left the Times in 1991 to become founding publisher of Greenwire,
the electronically distributed environmental news daily.
Throughout his accomplished career,
Mr. Shabecoff has had a long interest in improving both the quantity
and the quality of coverage of environmental matters in the printed media.
He was one of the founders and early member of the Board of Directors of
the Society of Environmental Journalists
(SEJ). As one of the few journalists who has taken a long view of the
environmental movemnt, in October of 2000 he was asked by the SEJ to present
his assessment of what what lies ahead in the 21st century. He summarized
his ideas in a short speech entitled, "The
Globe in 2100." Mr. Shabecoff is married with two children and four
grandchildren and a fifth one on the way.
