chemicals like flame retardants are not regulated, there are not really health requirements but they go into our bodies the same way." -Arlene Blum, as interviewed in Stink! Movie Personal life Blum lives and works in Berkeley, California. She has a daughter, Annalise Blum, a 2010 graduate of Stanford University in environmental engineering. In 2017 Annalise earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Tufts University. External links Arlene Blum official website Green Science Policy Institute website Purpose Prize Profile Article about Arlene Blum in Reed College Magazine Interview with Arlene Blum for Breaking Trail Dashka Slater, "Arlene Blum's Crusade Against Household Toxins", The New York Times, September 9, 2012. References Reed College alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni Living people 1945 births American mountain climbers Female climbers Environmental scientists American non-fiction environmental writers Jewish American writers Sportspeople from Berkeley, California Writers from Berkeley, California Activists from California Sierra Club awardees Members of the Society of Woman Geographers American women scientists American scientists American women writers 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women