by Sven | Aug 7, 2013 | articles, features, online, reporting, writing
The host of this year’s Ecocity World Summit, Nantes has shown the way of using art to build a culture of resilience. My article Lessons for building an ecocity culture in the Matador Travel Network introduces Nantes, Ecocity 2013, and my role in it, while...
by Sven | May 21, 2013 | online, reviews, writing
Matador Travel Network just posted my review of Jeremy Irons’ new documentary film, Trashed. The film connects many important issues, from consumerism to the Pacific Garbage Patch to climate change to Zero Waste. Trashed: A messy journey into the bowels of...
by Sven | Jan 30, 2013 | reviews, writing
I just reviewed “One Couch at a Time,” a movie about traveling and the sharing economy. Check out Couchsurfing was my gateway drug at Matador Travel Network. I went to a screening of the movie at the Hub in San Francisco, followed by a discussion of the...
by Sven | Jan 10, 2013 | articles, features, online, writing
Matador, the world’s largest independent travel magazine, just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California’s narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have required food products made...
