Special Projects
Tracking emerging trends and pushing the envelop when those trends weren’t moving fast enough, I took on the main environmental issues of the day at Sierra. They included intimate roundtables where icons of the environmental movement, industry, politics, science, and labor shared ideas about how to move forward on energy independence and climate change. I also created special issues for the magazine on biotech and green living—long before being green hit the covers of everything from Vanity Fair and Dwell to The Economist.
- "Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue." In 2006, I conceptualized, executed, and edited this roundtable and public forum, which included Al Gore and Senator Barbara Boxer as well as venture capitalists, climate scientists, and energy industry executives
- "Power Lunch." What happens when energy executives sit down with environmentalists? They come up with a plan for the future that leaves fossil fuels to the dinosaurs. I conceptualized, executed, and edited this roundtable in 2002.
- As a way to ground all that heady roundtable talk, I wrote an accompanying story, "The Soul of Green Machines," about gearheads in the Nevada desert trying to bring us the new-tech car of the future.
- In 2005 I conceptualized, executed, and edited a package titled "The Best Things in Life are Green." It includes homes with high style and low impact; fashion with a conscience; natural fitness; advice from a cranky eco-opinionator; and an eco-makeover.
- In 2001, I explored what happens when biology meets big business in an issue devoted to biotech. Check out “Brave New Nature.”
“Power Hungry” — With climate change a growing concern, some are taking a second look at nuclear power. In this story I follow the uranium trail, from the nation’s largest nuclear plant to the land and people that have been profoundly affected by uranium mining.