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Laura Orlando is a member of the Rural America In These Times Board of Editors. She is a civil engineer and teaches in the environmental health department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Laura grew up on a farm near Benton Harbor, Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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Viewpoint
Our Freshwater Emergency Is Worse Than You Think
How blue state governors can address a sprawling national water crisis.
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
Don’t Be Fooled by the Limelight on Lifestyle as a Cancer Risk
Laura Orlando
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Culture
Heart of Whiteness: The Stories Western Philanthropists Tell Themselves
Why do Western efforts to help the environment and Africa so often fail?
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
It’s Time to Talk (Again) about Sewage Sludge on Farmland
Laura Orlando
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Feature
The Rio Olympics Are a Reflection of Our Shared Global Crisis
The global tribe will sink or swim together. There is no place to go to escape the pollution and violence.
Laura Orlando
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Feature
Why Your Water Could Be Worse Than Flint’s
Our nation's water crisis requires radical solutions.
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
Factory Farm Runoff Is Polluting Lake Erie, But CAFO Sewers Are Not the Answer
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
The Latest From Our Editor in Greece
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
Rural America Goes to Greece
Laura Orlando
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Rural America
The Legacy of Slavery: What Inequality and Industrial Hog Operations Have in Common
Laura Orlando
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Culture
Toilet Ecology
The Big Necessity argues toilets and sewers are the key to improved sanitation. But reality is more complex - and toxic
Laura Orlando