Alternet
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
"How the US Armed Forces show us what the future looks like" -- I argue that the national security/climate change nexus presents a clear + present danger that the military is already battling.
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
The Los Angeles Times reviews Unlikely Ally. in February 2019
Sierra Magazine
"Uncovering the military's unlikely role in astrophysics and environmental conservation"
Los Angeles Times
Can the U.S. military do for environment protection what it did for integration? An interview with Sierra Magazine about Unlikely Ally.
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"Let the military help in the climate fight," an op-ed about how California seriously restricts the green energy its bases can produce.
Medium
Los Angeles Times
Medium
"My Letter of Resignation Was an Entire Issue of a National Magazine" -- a personal essay about how I quit my job.
Read about the soundtrack to this story.
Climate + Environment
"A Few Good Species"
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
This 2006 profile of Camp Pendleton's Major General Michael Lehnert was the first step in what ultimately became Unlikely Ally: How the military fights climate change and protects the environment.
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
It wasn't easy corralling venture capitalists, scientists, politicians, and environmentalists for a solutions-oriented conversation but I did it.
"Power Lunch"
"Climate Exchange: Cool heads tackle our hottest issue"
Stephen Schneider interview
What happens when energy executives sit down with labor leaders and environmentalists? Good things, it turns out.
Stephen Schneider interview
"The Soul of Green Machines"
Stephen Schneider interview
One of the last interviews with the climate scientist and Nobel laureate before his untimely death.
"The Soul of Green Machines"
"The Soul of Green Machines"
"The Soul of Green Machines"
Gearheads and engineers to the rescue
"Power Hungry"
"The Soul of Green Machines"
"The Soul of Green Machines"
A personal journey into a very heated debate about energy in Arizona and the American West.
Profiles of environmentalists + stories about people
"Straight Shooter"
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
A Wyoming hunter fights for a West left wild.
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
In Latin America, Catholics are standing up to those who covet their gold and timber.
"Navajo Monster Slayers"
"Bulldozers and Blasphemy"
"Navajo Monster Slayers"
As corruption plagues the West's largest tribe, reformers struggle for traction.
"Law and Nature' Order"
"The Cost of Doing Business"
"Navajo Monster Slayers"
A convicted felon finds redemption.
"Going for Broke"
"The Cost of Doing Business"
"The Cost of Doing Business"
How a copper giant plans to make the public pay for its toxic mess.
"The Cost of Doing Business"
"The Cost of Doing Business"
"The Cost of Doing Business"
One man's guilty conscience led to the revelation that a US-based mining company was funding terrorists in the Philippines. An ABC Investigates story based on my reporting was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005.
interviews
Early in my career, I sat down with some amazing people for in-depth conversations.
These include:
NELSON MANDELA
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
MAYA ANGELOU
OCTAVIO PAZ
IVAN ILLICH
CARLOS FUENTES
HUSTON SMITH
ARATA ISOZAKI
LEOPOLD KOHR
HANS JURGEN SYBERBERG
COSTA GAVRAS
MARGARET ATWOOD
JAMAICA KINCAID
ANGELA DAVIS
ISABELLE ALLENDE
WENDELL BERRY
FRANK GEHRY
JESSE JACKSON
GISH JEN
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ
CORNEL WEST
These early conversations (mostly for New Perspectives Quarterly 1988-1993 but also for Mother Jones) shaped the way I understand power and its attendant responsibilities; wisdom and creativity and how these gifts can remake the world; and how rare humility is. My later profiles focused deliberately on people out of the spotlight who are, nonetheless, fighting the good fight and making a difference.
