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This archive of investigations, reports and interviews below spans from my work with What Doctors Don’t Tell you through my ‘Ecologist years’ to some of my more recent work (see also my Blogs page) with other publications and from the NYR Natural News website, which I edit and Beyond GM campaign and its associated websites.
It does not include the large body of feature work which I did as a music journalist – work I am equally proud of but which came before the internet made archiving easier!
What Doctors Don’t Tell you re-wrote the book on how journalists should approach health. Instead of rewriting press releases, blindly following the latest fads or relying on rent-a-quote experts, the team immersed itself in the medical journalist that Doctors were – or should have been – reading. These often tell a very different story to the PR that filters through to the media about modern pharmaceuticals. I was a contributing editor at WDDTY for nearly a decade and editor of Proof! – the consumer magazine that grew out of the work we did there.
The Ecologist magazine, founded in 1970, was the world’s oldest and most widely read environment magazine. It was a driving force in major environmental campaigns against climate change, toxic chemicals in household products, rainforest destruction, food additives, genetic modification and much more. Its courageous, in-depth journalism provided early-warning signs for all the environmental challenges we face now and was, for decades, hugely influential in setting the environmental and green political agendas in the UK and elsewhere. The New York Review of Magazines called it “A magazine that changes people’s lives”. I was privileged to be its Health Editor and then Editor for several years before it ceased printing in 2009 and have continued to contribute ad hoc to it’s website.
My interest in a less interventionist, more natural approach to health continues to this day. NYR Natural News is the only alternative health website based in the UK. It has a growing UK and international audience of people who want good information on health alternatives and who want to understand the connections between environment and health. It is also an increasingly powerful voice in environment and GM campaigning, exposing the toxic connections between multinational corporations and political policy and their impact on human well-being.
A weeklong exercise in creativity and consciousness-raising, and letting go of boundaries the Burning Man festival takes place in the middle of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Each year it draws more than 60,000 creatives, free spirits and the just plain curious to a sprawling campground called Black Rock City, so large it can be seen […]
The narrative of conservation and environment is often one of destruction and despair. Because so many big issues happen so far from our doorsteps, it’s easy to distance ourselves from it all and assume that nothing anybody does will make a difference. In this book the author, a Professor of Conservation Science at Cambridge, […]
A sequel to the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning The Prize – an epic account of the oil industry from its early days to the modern times – this book’s central premise that peak oil is largely a myth, or at least so far in the future that we don’t need to worry about it just […]
Frozen. Remote. Hostile. Extreme. Barren. These are the usual adjectives usually applied the Antarctic. Most of us view it through a lens of ignorance, or romance, but for scientists like James McClintock, a renowned marine biologist with 13 polar expeditions, both overland and underwater, under his belt, it is so much more. In a […]
This is the latest offering by the self proclaimed group of ‘Guerrilla Geographers’ – a collective of activists, teachers, therapists, academics and artists who want to inspire young people to be more curious about the world around them. Unlike previous books from this group this is not a pocket guide. In fact at 270 […]
A short review can’t do justice to the amount of research that has gone into this book. Desrochers and his wife Shimizu have gone all out to make their case for the ‘globavore’ diet; to ground it in their interpretation of the science (there are 46 pages of references) and to make it look […]
A former Editor of Surfing magazine and an experienced surfer, Evan Slater has ridden many of the waves he writes about in this compelling photographic essay, which gives us a glimpse of the many and varied moods of ocean. While the brief text is thoughtful, even educational in places, this is not a book […]
So many of us talk about how hard it is us to survive these days. But consider the notion of ‘survival’ as portrayed in this striking documentary – a study of the bare bones lifestyles of indigenous hunters in the Siberian Taiga where winter temperatures can fall below -50ºc. The action, such as it is, […]
As climatic changes trigger increasingly severe weather-related disasters it’s the death toll that inevitably grabs the headlines. What happens to those who remain is rarely examined. The gruesome reality, as witnessed by the ongoing agony in Haiti and in communities hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, is that people are left to fend for themselves […]
Can you change the world in 600 pages? Journalist and eco-campaigner Alex Steffen believes you can. This hefty volume, revised and updated from the original 2006 version, is packed with information, resources, reviews and ideas that give provide a portal to a better future. The book, and the concept behind it, are both brilliant and […]
I am an award-winning campaigner, journalist and author. A former editor of the Ecologist magazine Pat has run campaigns for Paul McCartney’s Meat-Free Monday, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and Neal’s Yard Remedies. In 2011, my work leading the campaign, Cows Belong in Fields, won CIWF the Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year. In 2014 I co-founded the campaigning group, Beyond GM.
I am a qualified psychotherapist and the author more than 40 books for adults and children and I was inducted into Who’s Who in 2014. In addition to my work with Beyond GM, I work occasionally with the film production company Ecostorm. I also currently edit and oversee NYR Natural News – a campaigning natural health website, continue to write in a freelance capacity and make regular public speaking and media appearances.
I have been a trustee of both the Soil Association and the Organic Research Centre in the UK and am currently on the advisory board of GMO Free USA and am a trustee of the investigative media agency, Eyewitness.
To read more about me see here.
Skype: patti.t16
I am interested in and available for short- and long-term projects/consultancies, and am particularly keen on those that focus on food, sustainability and culture change. I am also an experienced public speaker.
My unique professional experience means I bring a variety of skills to any work I do, including effective and persuasive communication and writing skills, an holistic perspective on sustainability and change, and both intuitive and analytical ability. I am well known in my field and comfortable working in most fora.
Recent projects/consultancies include work with: Stella McCartney ‘Care’ range, Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday, Friends of the Earth, Compassion in World Farming, Soil Association, Neal’s Yard Remedies.
Recent public speaking engagements: UK Aware, Oxford University PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Society, Durham Union Society (Durham University), Bristol Festival of Nature, World Preservation Foundation, Women’s Institute.
Please feel free to contact me by email: howlatthemoon@live.co.uk
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