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Here's a selection of Kate's articles on:

Environmental Health/Toxic Chemicals
Education for Sustainability
Social Change
Other Topics

Environmental Health/Toxic Chemicals
Davies, K. (2005). How much do environmental diseases and disabilities cost? Northwest Public Health Fall/Winter WF5:1-3

Davies, K. (2006). The economic costs of environmental diseases and disabilities. Rachel’s Democracy and Health News Issue 836. January 5, 2006 p. 6-9.

Davies, K. (2006). Economic costs of childhood diseases and disabilities attributable to environmental contaminants in Washington state, USA. EcoHealth 3:86-94.

Davies, K. (2006). Strategies for eliminating and reducing persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances: common approaches, emerging trends and success. Journal of Environmental Health 69(5):9-16.

Davies, K. (2008). A tale of two toxicities: Review of Toxic Exposures by Phil Brown. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 18(4): 499-505.

Davies, K. (2009). Review of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. Alternatives 35(3): 5

Davies, K. (2009). A tale of two toxicities: A day in the life of Polly Klorinate and Al Kyle. Rachel’s Democracy and Health News Issue 992 January 1, 2009. Re-printed with permission in Chemical Sensitivity Connection, the newsletter of the Chemical Sensitivities Disorders Association, in January, 2009.

Davies, K. (2011). We all live downstream. Review of the second edition of Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 21(1): 149-153.

Davies, K. (2011). Toxic whoodunit. Review of the second edition of Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber. Alternatives 37(3).

Davies, K. (2013). Health and the environment. Chapter in Achieving Sustainability, an encyclopedia (ed. Debra Rowe). Macmillan Reference USA (commissioned article)

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Education for Sustainability
Davies K. (2008). Teaching creative social change. SuperConsciousness Magazine July/August 2008.

Davies, K. (2009). Chapter 32: A learning society. In: The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Tools for Change (eds. Arran Stibbe et al.) Devon, UK: Green Books.

Davies, K. (2009). A learning society. Resurgence Magazine 257 p. 42-44 November/December 2009.

Davies, K. (2010). Sustainable minds. Alternatives 36(5) 10-11 Summer 2010. Adapted with permission, from Chapter 32: A learning society, in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy Tools for Change (eds. Arran Stibbe et al.) Devon, UK: Green Books.

Davies, K. (2012). Chapter 18: How reflective practice can enhance learning for sustainability. In: Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change (eds. A. Wals and P.B. Corcoran) Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen University Press.

Eaton, M., Davies, K., Gillespie, M., Harding, K. and Parks Daloz, S. (2013). Chapter 22: Living the questions: Contemplative and reflective practices into sustainability education. In: Reimagining Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Sustainability (eds. Peggy F. Barlett and Geoff W. Chase. Boston: MIT Press.

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Social Change
Davies, K. (2007). Move to build a better world gets its start in Seattle. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper op-ed published on June 7, 2007.

Davies K. (2008). Teaching creative social change. SuperConsciousness Magazine July/August 2008.

Davies, K. (2008). Truth or consequences – The real life version. Common Dreams News Center, published on line on June 21, 2008 (http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9788/)

Davies, K. (2008). Honoring Gandhi and the international day of non-violence. Progressive Media Project September 30, 2008. Published in the Modesto Bee, the St. Thomas Daily News, The Advocate and the Frederick Post newspapers.

Davies, K. (2008). Humility is the forgotten virtue. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper op-ed published on October 30, 2008.

Davies, K. (2008). Clean environment needs to be a universal right. Progressive Media Project December 3, 2008 . Published in the South Bend Tribune, the Merced Sun, the Modesto Bee, the Monitor, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, the Derrick, the Franklin News Herald, the Las Vegas Review Journal, and the Shreveport Times newspapers.

Davies, K. (2009). A learning society. Resurgence Magazine 257 p. 42-44 November/December 2009.

Davies, K. (2010). Sustainable minds. Alternatives 36(5) 10-11 Summer 2010. Adapted with permission, from Chapter 32: A learning society, in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy Tools for Change (eds. Arran Stibbe et al.) Devon, UK: Green Books.

Davies, K. (2011). The power list: Ten ways activists have changed the world and how you can too Alternatives 37(5) September 2011 (commissioned article).

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Other Topics
Davies, K. (2002). Knowing your place. Alternatives 28(3):39.

Davies, K. (2010). Awesome science. Resurgence Magazine 262 September/October 2010.

Davies, K. and Linzey, T. (2011) Human Rights: Not Just for Humans (& Corporations) Anymore? Video made by Pirate Radio of a seminar held at Town Hall, Seattle on October 4, 2011, sponsored by the Sustainable Path Foundation and posted on the National Radio Project website.

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