Claudia Rowe

is a Seattle-based journalist and editor focusing on the impact of public policy on private lives. She is a two-time Pultizer Prize nominee and the author of The Spider and the Fly, for which she won the 2018 Washington State Book Award.

Articles By This Author

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A Graceful Exit: Taking Charge at the End of Life

How can we break the silence about what happens when we’re dying?

Claudia Rowe | May 21, 2019

Green Worker Co-Op Academy photo by Stephen O'Byrne

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From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy

How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.

Claudia Rowe | Apr 24, 2013

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A Living Sewage Treatment Plant? These People Grew One

Every flush of a standard toilet creates a several-gallon problem. Instead of wasting water, plants and animals can transform human waste into water rated pure enough to drink.

Claudia Rowe | Jan 4, 2013

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You Can’t Be Healthy in a Sick Ecosystem

New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.

Claudia Rowe | Aug 22, 2012

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