{{#badges: ToxicSludge}} '''Mark Dowie''' "is the author of five other has written six books and is the recipient of sixteen received numerous journalism awards, including three National Magazine Awards." <ref>See [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=1285 Mark Dowie], MIT Press, accessed July 19, 2008.</ref>
*Advisory Board, [[Center for Investigative Reporting]]
==Chez Sludge==
The [[Food Rights Network]] released a major investigative report involding involving Mark Dowie on July 9, 2010 titled: '''[http://prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters]'''. <ref>John Stauber, [http://prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the [[Sewage Sludge]] Industry Bedded Alice Waters], PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010</ref> It examines collusion between the [[Chez Panisse Foundation]] and the [[SFPUC]] based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: [[SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline]].)