Green Ink Author:Michael Frome Michael Frome, who began his distinguished career in environmental journalism in the 1960s, has been called the dean of American conservation. In GREEN INK he has written a book that will cement this reputation, forging decades of experience in the field he helped pioneer into an exceptional primer for environmental advocates and writers. Equal ... more »parts anecdote, advice, personal testimony, and nuts and bolts instruction, Frome's work espouses that most Jeffersonian belief that "our first objective should . . . be to leave open all avenues of truth. The most effective hitherto found is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their action." Having faced censorship and dismissal for his unstinting defense of the environment, Frome writes with passion and conviction about what he calls "advocacy journalism." He instructs aspiring writers on the rewards and challenges they can expect to encounter, touching on the contributions of such varied voices as Rachel Carson and Bernard DeVoto, John Muir and Edward Abbey, William Cullen Bryant and Walt Whitman, and Studs Terkel and Aldo Leopold, as well as many contemporary investigative environmental writers. Frome admires work that is neither "bland nor impersonal." Advocacy journalists should be crusaders, not afraid to let the larger issues about which they write, and about which they care, enlarge their life views while they enlarge their lives. GREEN INK is a book that will inspire all those who care about the environment, and especially those whose concern inspires them to write about the issues affecting the many environmental problems we face today. Frome, like Abbey, is a writer with passion, and he encourages that quality in the student in all of us to whom he speaks: "be literate . . . and a risk taker, too."« less