User:Ejgertz

EJ Gertz is a veteran U.S. journalist and author. She is a contributing editor at DeSmog, and has reported on environmental and climate design, justice, policy, politics, science and technology for Grist, Popular Science, HuffPost, Drilled, Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting, Dwell magazine, Sierra magazine, Audubon magazine, Scientific American, The Guardian and other publications.

Gertz is a co-founder and board member of Women Do News, a WikiProject that raises the visibility of women, women-identified and non-binary journalists by increasing the quantity and enhancing the quality of their Wikipedia biographies.

Gertz began her journalism career as an environmental news producer at OregonLive.com, the website of The Oregonian, in the late 1990s. During this time, she also contributed to the 'zine The Bear Deluxe.

In 2004, Gertz joined Worldchanging.com, an influential bright green blog inspired by author and futurist Bruce Sterling's viridian design movement, and went on to contribute to the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.

In 2015-2016, Gertz was an associate editor for environment and wildlife at TakePart, which was published by Participant. From spring 2018 through December 2019, she published the newsletter (de)regulation nation: environmental news in the Trump era. She developed the newsletter as a 2018 Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

She is a former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and was a member of the group's Freedom of Information Task Force for many years.

Gertz is the co-author, with Patrick Di Justo, of Environmental Monitoring with Arduino and Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino, both published by Maker Media (now Make: Community). She contributed to the Grist book Wake Up and Smell the Planet, which won a silver medal at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs), and to The Science Writers' Handbook: How to Pitch, Publish and Prosper in the Digital Age, by the Writers of Scilance.

She has a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon.