Jeremy Miller

Jeremy grew up on the alluvial plain between Boulder and Denver, Colorado. There he played baseball, hiked the Colorado Rockies and worked as an apprentice electrician in the summers with his dad. He also read Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, Wallace Stegner's Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Joseph Wood Krutch's The Voice of the Desert and anything he could get his hands on by Kurt Vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, James Joyce and
George Orwell.

He graduated in 1999 from the University of Colorado with
degrees in English and environmental biology. In 2000, he and his wife, Emma, hitched up a U-haul laden with cracked china and rattan and moved to New York City. There he worked as a high school biology teacher, a test prep tutor and a correspondent and photographer for several community newspapers.

He came to Boston University in 2004 to pursue a Master's degree in Science
and Medical Journalism. In his time at BU, he has written about Gloucester¹s
new generation of ecologically minded fishermen; the environmental and
social implications of reemerging beaver populations in metro Boston; and
the proposed rejuvenation of the San Joaquin River, a waterway decimated by
California's agriculture industry.

In the summer of 2005, he worked as an editorial intern at Harper's Magazine. This semester, he is working as student editor of Boston University's graduate school magazine, The Comment. His first child, Deirdre Margaret, was born last August. You might see him running (occasionally, at moderate speed) on the Charles River; or hiking inthe Adirondacks, the Whites or the San Juans; or hunching over a smoky grill covered with halibut in garlic, lemon and dill.

Can environmentalists save California's river of agriculture without destroying its farmers?

How a look overseas, and within, could help the US's ailing passenger rail service.