Emily Gertz is an American journalist and editor

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

 based in New York City, specializing in online news and environmental topics. She is a correspondent for OnEarth Magazine and co-manager of the magazine's on-line community. Her work includes ongoing contributions to Grist

Grist

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, the environmental news magazine, Scientific American online, and Popular Mechanics online.

Gertz was the lead editor and contributor to the March 2008 Grist series "The Corps of the Matter: the Army Corps and the Mississippi River" which also featured work by journalist Michael Grunwald, science writer Patrick Di Justo

Patrick Di Justo

Patrick Di Justo is a freelance magazine writer who writes about science and technology. He is a contributing editor to Wired magazine, where he writes the monthly What's Inside column, and the co-author of The Science of Battlestar Galactica, an exploration of the science behind the re-imagined...

, and photographer Mark Hirsch. She was the editor of the Stop Global Warming blog http://globalwarming.change.org at change.org. Gertz has also contributed to Plenty

Plenty (magazine)

Plenty is an environmental media company that publishes a bi-monthly magazine and offers daily news on their website . They are dedicated to exploring and giving voice to the green revolution that they say will define the 21st Century...

and Dwell

Dwell (magazine)

Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...

.

In the late 1990s, Gertz was producer for environmental news at OregonLive, the web site of The Oregonian

The Oregonian

The Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850...

, Oregon

Oregon

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's largest newspaper.

Gertz was a columnist and contributor to the environmental website Worldchanging

Worldchanging

Worldchanging is an American non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation. At 19/09/2011, it was taken over by Architecture for Humanity....

from 2004 to 2007, writing on a broad array of topics. She contributed several sections to the project's book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, and was the publication's Interim Managing Editor from August to November 2007.