Green New Deal article & journal

2019 was the year of the Green New Deal for me. One of the greatest opportunities this country has had in a long time to create large-scale structural changes commensurate with the scope of climate change and a range of other environmental and social issues....

The Real Dirt published in Sustain

My original TNOC article The Real Dirt on Urban Compost got republished in the Spring/Summer 2017 Zero Waste issue of Sustain, the Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development’s journal of environmental and sustainability issues. My article...

2 new websites

I had the pleasure to help two amazing organizations with their new websites that were launched within the last few weeks. SCRAP SF is a non-profit creative reuse center, materials depot, and workshop space founded in 1976 in San Francisco that breathes new life into...

The Nature of Cities Roundtable on Urban Greening

I just posted a piece called Developing Better Urban Habits that was first published as part of last month’s Global Roundtable at The Nature of Cities on how to make urban nature and its value more visible to people. Check out the rich and diverse tapestry of...

World Environmental Hubs Working Group meeting

A couple of weeks ago I got to brainstorm for two days in my capacity as Core Advisor for the International Ecocity Framework & Standards Initiative about how to integrate nature based solutions into the way we humans design our settlements, at the International...

The Winter Beet: Why I’m still an optimist…

This is a repost of my seasonal newsletter, “The Beet.” Sign up here to receive these occasional offerings in your inbox. Solstice Greetings! It’s been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun going south I thought this would...