I’m a New York-based writer, reporter, and editor. On Twitter, I’m @slaskow. I’m also on Tumblr.
I write about sustainability, cities, climate change, the environment, politics, internet policy, food, and more.
I edit Smithsonian’s SmartNews blog, and you can find my writing online and in print at publications like Grist, the American Prospect, Salon, Lucky Peach, the New Republic, New York Mag, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the Boston Globe.
Email me at sarah.laskow@gmail.com.
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Boston Globe
Poverty finds the suburbs
The smuggled hard drives of Timbuktu
Will a robot take your kid’s job?
Lapham’s Quarterly
Good ‘Til the Last Drop
Columbia Journalism Review
What the government isn’t telling us
I am a journalist; ask me anything
Smithsonian
Will the Real Great Gatsby Please Stand Up?
on climate change, sustainability and the environment
The American Prospect
I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore, Keystone
The Keystone Fight’s Labor Pains
Keystone XL: a Year in Review
Fracking versus the Boondocks
Frankenclimate
Keystone XL’s Beetlemania
Salon
Fracking’s the new normal
Confirmed: Fracking can pollute
The end of ethanol?
Reuters Opinion
Waffling on climate change? Consult friends, not science
Obama’s climate change quandry
Grist
In Gasland sequel, fracking saga’s pressure ratchets up
The mother of all rides: Biking across America on the old Route 66”
Ikea won’t tell where it gets its wood — and Congress is about to give it a pass
Wildfires too hot? Jump in the Senate office pool
GOOD, Green Innovation
on homeland security and disaster recovery
Newsweek.com
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
The Washington Independent
A Flood of Money Slow to Fix New Orleans Schools
Center for Public Integrity
Homeland Security’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Better Communications
Interoperability: A Priority for Homeland Security?
Is Congress failing on homeland security oversight? (Published in partnership with Politico)
on cities
Nymag.com
Unforced March: Sauntering Along All 32 Miles of Manhattan’s Coastline
Atlantic Cities
Do Places Seems Farther Away When You Have to Walk to Get There?
Grist
Jane addiction: Can one humble city-lover be all things to all people?
Capital
In the stacks: How the library keeps track of what New York wants to read
The other Manhattan project
Fast times on Ave. A
Thank You for Not Hating N.Y.U.
Is the East Village getting noisier or just grumpier?