We’re Not in Zone 6 Anymore

We’re Not in Zone 6 Anymore Organic Gardening Magazine, August / September 2010

Climate change may increase the likelihood of summer droughts or leaf-shredding hailstorms, but individual weather events will determine our tomato harvests.

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Changing Climate, Shifting Forests

Changing Climate, Shifting Forests American Forests Magazine, Winter 2010

Ultimately, climate change will draw new lines between species and ecosystems. Some changes may be subtle and hard to notice, such as the gradual decline of coastal redwood forests over the coming centuries. Other changes will be hard to miss. . . .

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Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action articles for member newsletter, blog posts, website copy, report development and strategy

Cristina writes about clean water standards, toxins in water and packaging, climate change and more for the national grassroots organization, Clean Water Action.

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Virginia’s Changing Coasts

Virginia’s Changing Coasts Virginia Wildlife, January 2010

Rising seas, raging storms, and damaging flood waters that seem to never recede. Submerged houses. Eroded barrier islands. Such coastal horrors may be reminiscent of New Orleans, but the bayou is not the only coastal region that should be paying close attention to climate change and its associated threats.

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Bio

Cristina Santiestevan is an environmental writer and communications consultant. She writes about issues as varied as clouded leopards in Thailand, climate change in American forests and mushroom foraging in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work appears in magazines, museum exhibits and nonprofit publications.

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