Harold Gilliam is a San Francisco based writer, newspaperman and environmentalist, graduate of UC Berkeley, book author and former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...

and Examiner

Examiner

The Examiner was a weekly paper founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, but from 1865 it repeatedly changed hands and political allegiance, resulting in a rapid decline in readership and loss of...

newspapers. The "Harold Gilliam Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting", given by the Bay Institute of San Francisco, is named in his honor. Gilliam’s article, "The Destruction of Mono Lake

Mono Lake

Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean...

Is on Schedule" appeared in the Examiner’s Sunday edition in March, 1979, and was one of the first articles to draw attention to the then ongoing destruction of Mono Lake.

External links

• Chasing a green vision for the Presidio http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/27/INAQ11SNEV.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam+2008&sn=002&sc=742
• Environmental Group Honors Writer Gilliam http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/09/30/MN18685.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=002&sc=860
• Environment reporter wins Bay Institute Gilliam Award http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/2000/10/01/NEWS13618.dtl&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=005&sc=612
• ENVIRONMENT—Of Mists And Mystery http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/07/16/SC11868.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=022&sc=313
• Mind over matter http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/09/IN114910.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=025&sc=311
• ENVIRONMENT A Rhyme in Timehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/28/IN69514.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=027&sc=307
• TO THE BRINK Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the morality of a first strike mattered
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• Sleepless in San Francisco http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/18/IN55141.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=034&sc=296
• The Roots of Earth Day http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/04/16/SC61926.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=028&sc=301
• CARL ANTHONY The head of the Earth Island Institute's Urban Habitat Program http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/03/24/SC73207.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=036&sc=292
• Winter fog machine switches on http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/11/MN43998.DTL&hw=Harold+Gilliam&sn=037&sc=291