When my article “Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand” received an Outstanding Feature prize from the Society of Environmental Journalists, I was asked about digging… Read More »Inside Story Q&A with Environmental Journalists
This month I reflect back two decades to when I first stepped into the world of environmental crime. A friend in forestry had suggested I… Read More »A Writer’s Education: Ginseng, the Divine Root at 20
For New Security Beat, I wrote about how a convergence of organized crime and crimes against the environment is speeding up damage to communities, ecosystems… Read More »Climate Threat of Environmental Crime
In his 1930s essay describing the destruction of Wisconsin’s native forests and the dynamics with communities, writing for a broad audience, Leopold was finding his… Read More »Aldo Leopold on the Way to Sand County
Recently I was asked for my reflections after returning from a Spring semester in Portugal. I was there thanks to a Fulbright Scholar award, hosted… Read More »Reflections on Spring in Portugal
Our team creating The People’s Recorder, the podcast about the Federal Writers’ Project, has been busy.
I’ve read about 40 books this year (so far) so it’s really hard picking just three! But these books were tops in how they satisfied… Read More »Best Books of 2023
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the community garden at Cleveland Park. It started as a Victory Garden in another time of unpredictable supply… Read More »Gardeners in Arms: Community Gardens Bring History to Climate Action
David A. Taylor Alex Harvey’s Song Noir has a nicely contained thesis — that Los Angeles and its varied character shaped Tom Waits’ creative development.… Read More »The Los Angeles that Shaped Tom Waits
Sharing recommendations on best books on spies and espionage in World War II, based on research for my book, Cork Wars.
