Bob Schildgen
Writer for Sierra Magazine
Sierra Club

Bob Schildgen writes a popular environmental advice column, "Hey Mr. Green" for Sierra, the national magazine of the Sierra Club. He was on the staff of Sierra, from 1993 until 2005, where he served managing editor for seven years, and has many years' experience as a widely published, award-winning author, journalist, publisher, and editor.

He is a founding board member of Bay Nature, a quarterly environmental magazine now in its seventh year of publication. He was senior editor at China Books & Periodicals from 1988 to 1992, and co-editor of Berkeley's Co-op News before that period. His biography of the Japanese social reformer, Toyohiko Kagawa, is scheduled to be released this spring in a Japanese translation.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he was raised a few miles from the Mississippi River on a farm in southwest Wisconsin. Here, he says, "I got my first important environmental lessons, watching birds, imitating their songs, and going fishing some days—but on others breathing clouds of pesticides and watching the soil erode."