Valerie Andrews has spent more than 25 years chronicling scientific and social innovation. Her work has appeared in major magazines, on PBS television and the web. She recently coauthored From Wags to Riches: How Dogs Teach Us about Success in Business and in Life, with Robert Vetere, president of the world's largest trade association for pets and pet products, exploring the human-animal bond. With Allan Weis, one of the founders of the Internet, she wrote The Business of Changing Lives: How One Company Took the Information Superhighway to the Inner City, a book about technology, education and social entrepreneurship. She has also edited several bestselling books including Robert Johnson's Owning Your Own Shadow and Cliff Hakim's We Are All Self-Employed. Valerie's articles have appeared in People, New York, Vogue, Esquire and on the Internet. She has workedas a commentator in the award winning documentary, A Still Small Voice, about the interface of science and spirituality, and host of Care of the Soul, a PBS interview with the author Thomas More. Her own books include A Passion for this Earth, essays on our connection to the natural world and The Psychic Power of Running, published in the US, Italy, England and Japan.As a filmmaker, she has contributed to two documentaries now available on DVD: Powershift, on alternative energy and Nourish (featuring Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Bryant Terry and Anna Lappe), on how our food gets from soil to plate.Read more about this authorRead less about this author