Christopher is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis, now available in paperback. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review and many others. His writing has been republished in numerous anthologies. He has also worked as a reporter for The Oakland Tribune and United Press International and as city editor for The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Selected Publications
- The food divide: San Francisco is a city of haves and have-nots when it comes to nutrition San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 29, 2011 (cover story)
- Behind the protest signs: The voices of Occupy San Francisco, San Francisco Public Press, Oct. 20, 2011
- India's Rural Commons at Odds with Surging Industrialization, Shareable.net, Feb. 2011
- Global Commons Idea Navigates Public Private Split, Shareable.net, Jan. 14, 2011
- Homebuilder Lennar uses federal taxpayer funds to balance its books, San Francisco Public Press, July 6, 2010
- An Inconvenient War, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2010
- Love's Labors Lost: KALW Crosscurrents Interview on SEIU, April 2010
- Revenue for All, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2011
- Banned in Britain: Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom, Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb., 2010
- A Tale of Two Zip Codes, Race, Poverty & the Environment, May 2009
- SF Budget Cuts Test City's Liberal Image, The Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 2009
- A Food Agenda for Obama, The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 26, 2008
- San Francisco Needs a New Deal, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 25, 2008
- Just Food Nation, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 22, 2008
- Farm Bill: Making America Fat and Polluted, One Subsidy at a Time, The Christian Science Monitor, April 23, 2008
- Meat Roulette, Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2008
- Beyond the Farm Bill, Grist online, MSN.com Daily Green, December 14, 2007
- Voting Beyond Our Forks, Whole Life Times, Common Dreams, February 2007
- Corn Rush: Ethanol Fever Needs a Reality Check, Pacific News Service, July 13, 2006
- Business, As Usual?, The American Prospect (report on the green economy), April, 2006
- New Rules to Stem Pollution from Factory Farms Draw Fire, The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 15, 2005
- Coal Miners Slaughter, In These Times, January 25, 2006
- In a Ditch: America's Blue-collar Temps, The Economist, April 13, 2002
- Streetcorner, Incorporated, Mother Jones, March 2002
- The Bingo Connection, Mother Jones (award winner), September 2000
- High-Tech's Toxic Toll, San Francisco Bay Guardian (cover story, award winner), April 26, 2000
- Temps Demand a New Deal, The Nation (cover story), March 27, 2000
- Losing Life and Limb on the Job, The Progressive (award winner), February 2000
- The New Farm Crisis, In These Times (cover story), June 13, 1999
- "Fowl Trouble: In the Nation's Poultry Plants, Brutality to Worker As Well As to Bird," Harper's, August 1999
- "Revolt over Conditions at Poultry Plants," The Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 1999
- "Plucking Workers: Tyson Looks for a Captive Labor Force," The Progressive (award winner), Aug. 1998
- "Texas Move to Privatize State Welfare Programs Draws Fire," The Christian Science Monitor (page-one story), March 20, 1997
