SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 | I was a hired gun: an untold story from the front lines of the battle for environmental justice to envision a world of skillful interrelatedness. Battery Journal, July 30.
Spotlight: Ben Goldman’s Corona Masks. Diamond Artist Guild, No. 23, November.
2020 | Nature Breakthroughs: 5 Steps to Transform Yourself and the World. Weehawken, NJ: United Visual Arts, LLC.
Anger at the gourd. Flights, pp. 24-34. (Video reading available here.)
2016 | Manga for Men: Seven Secrets of Middle Age. Weehawken, NJ: United Visual Arts, LLC.
2009 | Arts Stimulus Plan for New Jersey and the Nation: One Percent for the Creative Economy. Newark, NJ: City Without Walls.
2008 | On Every Wall: Reproduction and the Future of Art. Weehawken, NJ: United Visual Arts, LLC.
2005 | culturepages.net – a collaborative arts marketing portal. Jersey City, NJ: Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs & Pro Arts.
2000 | An environmental justice paradigm for risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 6(2).
1999 | An essay on risk. The Motley Fool, July 13.
1998 | The National Green Jobs Report. Cambridge, MA: Greenworks, Inc. (with John T. O’Connor).
Sustainability in Action. Revised/Updated Edition, Washington, DC: U.S. EPA (with CONCERN, Inc., Community Sustainability Resource Center, and Jobs and Environment Campaign).
An explosive situation at the day care center. The Star Ledger, March 19.
1997 | The Massachusetts Green Jobs Report: How to Create 100,000 New Jobs while Cleaning the Environment. Cambridge, MA: GreenWorks, Inc. (w/ J. O’Connor, E. Basch, & M. Flaherty).
1996 | Sex, drugs and sustainability. Clarke Center Contemporary Issues Series, 4, November.
What is the future of environmental justice? Antipode, 28(2).
1995 | Sustainable America: New Public Policy for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.
Combatting environmental racism. Chemistry and Industry, January 16.
1994 | Toxic Wastes and Race Revisited. Washington, DC: Center for Policy Alternatives, NAACP, and UCCRJ.
Not Just Prosperity. Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation.
Discounting Human Lives: Uranium and Global Equity (Avebury Studies in Green Research). Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co.
1993 | The challenges of sustainability. Audubon, November/December.
1992 | The Truth About Where You Live: An Atlas for Action on Toxins and Mortality. New York: Random House/Times Books. Comments: "Helpful to anyone wanting to be fully informed about toxic threats" - Vice President Al Gore; "Embodies the promise and problems of citizen activism on health" - Journal of the American Medical Association; "Civil rights groups should use this information in their fight for environmental justice" - Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. "A landmark new book" - Longevity Magazine; "Deserves to be a best-seller" - Dr. Vicente Navarro, Johns Hopkins University.
Equity and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Fordham Environmental Law Report, 4(1), Fall.
Polluting the poor. The Nation, October 5.
The stress and strain of the atomic age. In These Times, May 20-26.
Community right to know. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 12(3), September.
1991 | The U.S. Military’s Toxic Legacy. Boston, MA: National Toxics Campaign (w/ L. Siegel & G. Cohen).
Warning: unsafe for human life. Longevity, August.
1990 | Deadly Deceit: Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Cover-Up. New York, NY: Four Walls Eight Windows (with Jay M. Gould); 2nd Ed. 1991; German Ed. 1991; Russian Ed. 1993; Japanese Ed. 1994; 2nd Japanese Ed. 2013 with new preface. Comments: "A frightening, powerful report" -- New York Times; "Should be read by every person concerned about health" -- Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel Laureate; "Impressively documented. A powerful report" - Publishers Weekly.
1988 | Mortality and Toxics Along the Mississippi River. Washington, DC: Greenpeace USA, September.
1986 | Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States. New York, NY: United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (with Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. and Charles Lee).
Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk. Washington DC: Island Press (with James Hulme & Cameron Johnson). Comments: "An indispensable addition to the discussion of hazardous waste" -- New Jersey Governor James Florio; "Will help governments and corporations improve hazardous waste management" -- U.S. Senator Robert T. Stafford.
Unmasking the toxic shell game. American Land Forum, 6(4), Fall.
Risk assessment during off-site responses. Hazardous Waste & Hazardous Materials, 3(2), Summer.
Rating the performance of waste management companies. Environment, 28(3), April.
1985 | Another toxic time bomb. Sierra Magazine, January-February.
1984 | Cleaning up the federal polluters. The Nation, November 24.
On hazardous waste. The New York Times, March 10.