PRESS & MEDIA
This page contains links to Arlene’s lectures and also select articles and videos about Arlene and the work of the Green Science Policy Institute.
Selected Media Coverage
- SFGate: Scientist Inducted Into California Hall Of Fame
- Patch: Berkeley Scientist Inducted Into California Hall of Fame
- SF Chronicle: Scientist Inducted Into California Hall Of Fame
- Rock and Ice.com: Arlene Blum, early Annapurna expedition leader, enters California Hall of Fame (2018)
- The Sheet: A Woman’s Place is on Top (2018)
- Outside Magazine: An Oral History of the First US Ascent of Annapurna (2017)
- Michigan Radio: Study finds fluorinated chemicals in fast food packaging (2017)
- Alaska Public Media: How safe are your clothes? (2016)
- Science Magazine: Tackling Toxics (2016)
- New York Times Magazine: How dangerous is your couch? (2012)
- New York Times: Chemicals in Your Popcorn? (2015)
- New York Times and Retro Report: A Flame Retardant That Came With Its Own Threat to Health (2015)
- Chicago Tribune: Playing with fire investigative series (2012)
- New York Times: Are you safe on that sofa? (2012)
- Full list: Recent and notable press coverage
Talks and Videos
“Mountains & Molecules”, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, May 2020
“Breaking Trail: Peaks, Public Health, and Policy” | Talks at Google
International Interior Design Association Leaders’ Breakfast
TEDx Talks: The pervasiveness of toxic chemicals in today’s world
TEDx Talks: The connection between flame retardants and plastics pollution
Authors at Google: Breaking Trail with Arlene Blum
Blum speaks at the U.S. Green Building Council (April 2014)
A Dove Real Woman Role Model
Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal celebration. Produced by Maya and Jules Tippet (October 2014)
Publications
Click here for Arlene’s list of articles in popular media, peer-reviewed journal publications, white papers and position statements, and her publications from meetings and conferences.
Six Classes
The Six Classes initiative educates purchasers, manufacturers and other decision makers about evaluating harmful chemicals by class rather than one at a time. Visit www.SixClasses.org to view four-minute videos to better understand the six classes of chemicals of concern and avoid their use.