Award Unity Media Award

Four Corners Award

Los Angeles Press Club Award

Best of the West Award

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Citation

Wenjin Book Prize

Paris Book Festival Prize for nonfiction (2013)

Nautilus Gold Book Award (2014)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2014)

Population Institute's 2014 Global Media Award for best book (2014)

Premio Nacional de Jornalismo Radiofonico

Social Inventions Award (1998)

Salon Book Award (2007)

Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book (2008)