California has big dreams for using habitat restoration as a tool to fight climate change. The result? A very seedy gold rush. Edited by the inimitable Kate Golden for Bay Nature.
Many thanks to Kate Golden for the perfect Virginia Woolf-referencing title to this pure delight of an assignment.
The Birth of a Sun-Tracking Robot
Sometimes, your favorite stories start with the sincere curiosity regarding what the hell is going on at the old pipe organ factory.
People are Still Living in FEMA’s Toxic Katrina Trailers and they Likely Have no Idea
In which I learned that HUD doesn’t bother to regulate levels of formaldehyde for mobile homes, on the grounds that they are only temporary dwellings. Edited by the great Scott Rosenberg over at Grist.
How the Bay Area’s Last Slaughterhouse Dodged the Axe
Sure, you’ve heard about the housing crisis, but have you heard about the neighborhood slaughterhouse crisis? Edited by Darby Minow Smith, as part of her extraordinary series for Grist on the plight of the mid-sized farm.
My first feature story, for the late, great San Francisco Magazine. Edited by Jan Newberry, to whom I will always be grateful to—both for working with such a newbie journalist on such a complicated story, and for the charcuterie platter she brought in for the toughest edit session.