Published Articles
Cities are the Perfect Laboratories for a Global Green New Deal – The Nature of Cities
Urban Metabolism: A Real World Model for Visualizing and Co-Creating Healthy Cities – The Nature of Cities
How a Peer-to-Peer Approach is Transforming Urban Systems Cities Around the World: An Example from Cusco – The Nature of Cities
The Real Dirt on Urban Compost – The Nature of Cities
Developing better urban habits – The Nature of Cities
What Your Garden Can Teach About Cities – Mother Earth News
So You Think Your City is Green? Introducing a Sustainable Cities Rating System – Mother Earth News
How Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World – YES! Magazine
Why Two Brothers Traveled 5,000 Miles by Rail in a Spacecraft – Shareable
Postcard from Medellin, Part 2: Are We Better Off Being Better Off? – Shareable
Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity – Shareable
What’s the best thing you’ve ever experienced that you COULDN’T find online? – Matador Network
6 things to feel hopeful about if you like Mother Earth (and one lost cause) – Matador Network
From Urban Prototype to Heart of the City in 313 Days – Shareable
From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges – YES! Magazine
The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These Indian Villagers – YES! Magazine
Chevron Pollutes, Here’s What the People Did Back – YES! Magazine
Lessons for building an ecocity culture – Matador Network
Data Jams Take Government into the Practical Open – Shareable
Trashed: A messy journey into the bowels of modern civilization – Matador Network
The Ecocity: The only way to organise massive populations? – Permaculture Magazine
LLGA Cities Summit Matches Urban Problems with Solutions at Global Scale – Shareable
Ecocities: using creativity to express our future urban needs – Permaculture Magazine
How to Start a Repair Café – Shareable
6 Ways to Fuel the Cooperative Takeover – YES! Magazine
West Seattle Tool Library: Interview with Micah Summers – Shareable
Sharing for Profit – I’m Not Buying it Anymore – Shareable
23 laws from other countries the US should adopt – Matador Network
Bring Transition Town-style Sharing to your Community – Shareable
Couchsurfing was my gateway drug – Matador Network
How the US is behind the rest of the world in GMO policy – Matador Network
The Top 5 Recent Developments in Bikesharing – Shareable
Urban Prototyping: Magical Pieces of the Future – Shareable
Speaking for All Bodies (Not Just the “Perfect” Ones) – YES! Magazine
9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health (Without Joining a Gym) – YES! Magazine
What’s the Most Sustainable Material for Daily Life? The Answer May Be Hiding in Plain Sight – Alternet
How Smaller Cities are Taking the Lead in Sustainability Innovation – Alternet
Business for Good (Benefit Corporations) – Resurgence Magazine
Life Is Easier With Friends Next Door (Cohousing feature) – YES! Magazine
Where No City Has Gone Before: San Francisco Will Be World’s First Zero-Waste Town by 2020 – Alternet
The Importance of Being Sassy (How Occupiers, pranksters, and artists speak louder than money) – YES! Magazine
Street people: In San Francisco, humans reclaim the right-of-way – Grist
Heavenly Energy (Solar church roofs in Germany) – Sojourners
What If We Stopped Freaking Out About Climate Change? – Alternet
How to Start Your Own Power Company, Stop Coal and Nukes, and Transform Your City – Alternet
The Reluctant Rebels (Solar Revolution in Southern Germany) – Resurgence Magazine
Photo Tour: What Will It Take To Make Our Cities 100% Green? – Alternet
California’s New Triple Bottom Line (Benefit Corporations)– YES! Magazine
Universal Principles for Creating a Sustainable City – Planetizen
Freiburg, Germany: A model sustainable city – Grist
Tolerance in a Small Town – YES! Magazine
Resilient Ideas: A Hand-Built Home – YES! Magazine
Resilient Ideas: Low-Impact Urban Living – YES! Magazine
Istanbul and Bicycling, Like Dark Bread It’s Good For Everyone – SF Chronicle
A vote that counts – San Francisco Chronicle