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The bio I never planned to write...
a (bike) writer with a camera self-portrait In 2009, after 13 years of wordsmithing and playing in a rock & roll band accompanied by a series of eclectic day jobs, I set out to be a freelance...
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Lessons for building an ecocity culture
Quick: Name a few cities that come to mind when you think of France...Paris? Bien sûr, but you can do better than that. Cannes? Mais oui, you've been reading the entertainment pages. Marseille?...
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Sunday Streets SF: Love me Tenderloin Edition (photos!)
Two weekends ago, San Francisco's migrating street party known as Sunday Streets found itself a warm spot right smack in the middle of the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. It was, as always, as much a...
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Hummingbirds: Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change...
My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South Germany, not far from the Swiss and Austrian borders. It's a long story of how they settled in the...
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The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These...
Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here’s what they thought of the dark side of...
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Is Google making the world wiser?
Just in time for the unfurling of Google's mysterious barge, a 50-foot-tall, 250-foot-long shipping container structure that looks to be a sort of floating technology theme park, I thought I'd post...
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Pope Francis: "Thou shalt not frack!"
Pope Francis holding up anti-fracking t-shirts following a meeting with a group of Argentinian environmental activists to discuss water and fracking issues. The shirts read “No To Fracking” and “Water...
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President Obama comes to San Francisco ATM, Climate Activists sing him a song
President Obama came to San Francisco today for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the SFJazz Center - and a couple hundred of climate activists welcomed him in their own creative way, by...
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How I Learned to Stop Wasting and Love the Trash
Each year, Americans generate 389.5 million tons of municipal solid waste, 69 percent of which gets landfilled. As Edward Humes breaks it down in his eye-opening opus Garbology, that's about 7.1 pounds...
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From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges
Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.++++++Last week...
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50 years from now, will people remember the health care website or the...
In another powerful article just published in Rolling Stone Magazine entitled Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story, Bill McKibben makes the compelling case that the President and his...
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A solstice message from ancient roots
It is quite puzzling that cultures across much of the northern hemisphere have chosen the season when the earth's tilt provides for much darkness and quiet as the time to be out and about, shopping for...
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The 6 words that summarize why American-style bare-knuckle capitalism is doomed
This is not from The Onion, but from yesterday's business section of the San Francisco Chronicle:I'm trying to find the right analogy to wrap my mind around this head-slapping double-whopper of...
View ArticleHave billionaires infiltrated the Occupy movement to revive Occupy movement?
File under "you just can't make this stuff up."In less than a week, we get 3 billionaires in seeming self-parodies featuring themselves as both gloating celebrants of poverty and inequality and...
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I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of pipeline truth...
Rally against Keystone XL pipeline outside the US State Department Office at 1 Market St. in San Francisco, February 3rd, 2014.Yesterday saw an unprecedented mobilization against Keystone XL, the...
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A Public Service Announcement
This is your planet.This is fossil fuels.crack 'em in the furnace => => =>This is your planet on fossil fuels.January 2014California's Drought Could Be the Worst in 500 YearsThe Golden State...
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On the road to Cairo, Casablanca, and Medellín, Ecocitizen World Map in hand
Hola! Bonjour! As-salam alaykom! Hello!It's been a busy four months since I went into woodshed mode to help create the Ecocitizen World Map Project, a portal where citizens can map their communities...
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What the heartland thinks of the Keystone XL pipeline, in one image
My friend and photographer extraordinaire Lou Dematteis went to Nebraska to document the heartland's artistic resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline. Two days ago, on Saturday, April 12th, he snapped...
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Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity
“Is this your first WUF?” is a question commonly asked at the World Urban Forum, a gathering for, by, and about city people that was first convened by UN Habitat in Nairobi in 2002 and descended on...
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Holy Coaly! Stanford University bids farewell to the coal industry. Largest...
Okay, so no more excuses about how kooky it is to think divestment from fossil fuels could really happen on a large scale.Fossil Free Stanford Statement on Coal DivestmentToday, the climate movement...
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