''New York Times'' career
He was posted as a foreign correspondent in West Germany from 1964 to 1968, with responsibilities for covering East and West Germany, Scandinavia, and Czechoslovakia; then posted to Tokyo, from 1968 to 1970, with responsibilities for covering Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Returning to the U.S., he then covered economics and labor for the ''New York Times''s Washington Bureau. He was White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Shabecoff served as ''The New York Times''s environmental correspondent from 1977 to 1991. He has been described as "a pioneer" for breaking new ground in defining environmental news and setting a standard for coverage that earned him the sobriquet of "dean of environmental journalism." He left the ''New York Times'' in 1991. He then founded and, for five years, served as publisher of ''Books
''A Fierce Green Fire'', published by Hill & Wang, in 1993 (and published as paperback by Island Press, 2003) was his first full-length book. It is the definitive history and analysis of American environmentalism, from its early seeds in efforts to preserve wilderness through its maturity as a social, political and cultural movement; it offers the hope that “we will be able to save ourselves from the grave dangers we have created by our destructive use of the natural world.” That was followed by ''A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development and Democracy'', published by the University Press of New England in 1996, which provides a history of international environmentalism from its beginnings, and uses the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to analyze the successes and failures of environmental actions worldwide; concluding that peace must be based on mutual care for the planet and the well-being of others with whom we share it. ''Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century'', published by Island Press in 2000, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the American environmental movement, calling for a broader, more inclusive movement with a role in reforming education, politics, the economy and science to transform the future. In that book, he argued that environmental concerns can not be met without confronting other issues, mainly social and economical. He thus underlined the failure to "recognize and acknowledge that the decline of the environment is not an issue distinct from other flaws in our society" and that environmentalists "are in the same boat with other groups of Americans who are thwarted and victimized by the status quo," and " ey will have to play a role in changing our political and economic systems."Philip Shabecoff, ''Earth Rising'', p. 179 (2000). In collaboration with his wife Alice, he wrote ''Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children'', published in 2008 by Random House; Chelsea Green published the paperback in 2010 with the title as ''Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill''.Awards
Shabecoff has received theBackground
Mr. Shabecoff grew up in the Bronx, New York, attended the Bronx High School of Science, and earned his B.A. from Hunter College; he earned his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago. He and his wife have two children, Alexa, who is the assistant dean for public service at the Harvard Law School, and Peter, who is the founder and CEO of Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity fund.BiographyBibliography
*Shabecoff, Philip (1993), ''A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement'', Island Press *Shabecoff, Philip (1996), ''A New Name For Peace: International Environmentalism,References
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