Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health

John Wargo is Professor of Risk Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Political Science at Yale University and Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program. He holds appointments in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Political Science. He has been a member of EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel on Pesticides and advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, the Vice President's office, several EPA administrators and the U.N.'s World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization. Green Intelligence Creating Environments that Protect Human Health won the 2010 Independent Publishers Award in Environment, Ecology and Nature and the Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction. It was one of Scientific American's Favorite Science Books for 2009, a ForeWord 2009 Book of the Year Award finalist, and selected by CEO-READ as one of the Best Books of 2009 in the "Big Ideas" category. He was the recipient of the American Association of Publishers award for Best Scholarly & Professional Book in Government and Political Science in 1997 for Our Children's Toxic Legacy.