Visit the New School website to hear: "Healing Inside Out: A Poet's Quest, A Mother's Journey," an audio interview with Sandra Steingraber, PhD, ecologist, cancer survivor, and author of Living Downstream and Having Faith, May 14th, 2007.   Interview conducted by Michael Lerner.

"There are a million things that suddenly you have to learn about, that you never thought about before, when you become a new parent. But for me that responsibility includes the evidence linking air pollution to premature birth, or mercury contamination in fish to learning disabilities. Not only as an ecologist responsible for starting a public conversation about the contaminants in air, food, and water, but it becomes part of my responsibility as a mother as well. And I don't really feel any sense of conflict between the joy of parenting and the responsibility of taking care of the environment. They both spring from the love one feels for one's child."