Laura Orlando
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Laura F. Orlando, MPA

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Health - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 358-2322
lorlando@bu.edu
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Biography

Laura Orlando has over 30 years of experience working on the design, construction, and management of sustainable systems in the built environment, with a special focus on community-led water and sanitation projects. Her work includes research on toxic substances in municipal water and sewer systems and their exposure pathways -- including technological, economic, and political influences -- with the overarching goal of pollution prevention. She is a co-founder and trustee at the Ecological Health Network, Senior Scientist at Just Zero, and trustee and contributing editor at Barn Raising Media. Laura has a BSE in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

Interests: ecological restoration, water resources, sustainable sanitation, sewers and sewage treatment, international development, history of technology, and urban environmental history.

Education

  • Harvard University, MPA Field of Study: Public Administration
  • University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, BS Field of Study: Civil Engineering

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHEH745

Publications

  • Published on 5/9/2024

    Laura Orlando. Will the EPA’s New PFAS Rules Protect our Water, Farms and Health. Barn Raising Media. Chicago, IL. 2024.

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  • Published on 4/8/2024

    Laura Orlando. It’s Time to Step Off the PFAS Merry-Go-Round. Just Zero. Sturbridge, MA. 2024.

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  • Published on 3/14/2023

    Laura Orlando. Don’t Let Your Food Waste Become Sewage Sludge. Barn Raising Media. Chicago, IL. 2023.

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  • Published on 2/1/2023

    Laura Orlando. Why We Need to Stop Mixing Food Waste with Sewage Sludge. Just Zero. Sturbridge, MA. 2023.

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  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Orlando, L., Aronson, J.C., Cross, A.T. & Goodwin, N.R. . One health. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 389. 2023.
  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Aronson, J.C., Cross, A.T., Goodwin, N.R. & Orlando, L. . Natural capital. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds. Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. Pp. 366-367. 2023.
  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Cross, A.T., Goodwin, N.R., Orlando, L. & Aronson, J.C. . Microbiome. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 351. 2023.
  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Cross, A.T., Goodwin, N.R., Orlando, L. & Aronson, J.C. . Microbiome. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 351. 2023.
  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Orlando, L., Aronson, J.C., Cross, A.T. & Goodwin, L.R. . Human health. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 277. 2023.
  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Orlando, L., Aronson, J.C., Cross, A.T. & Goodwin, N.R. . Ecohealth. In: Haddad, B.M. and Solomon, B.D. eds., Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 144. 2023.

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