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Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate in the Outdoors. Here’s Why

My feature about India’s struggle to shift the cultural preference of many millions — in National Geographic.

Photo by Grant Cornett

The Compost King

About converting food scraps to energy, in addition to fertilizer, through anaerobic digestion, in The New York Times Magazine.

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

About the potential for using nature to un-pervert urban hydrology — especially in the Gowanus watershed — in Harper’s magazine. (Email me if you can’t access it.)

Too Good to Waste

On the efforts of campaigner Tristram Stuart to slash the 2.9 trillion pounds of food we annually squander, in National Geographic magazine.

Flexibility Test

About the mixed blessing of pouch and other flexible plastic packaging, in OnEarth magazine.

The Remains of the Night

Sex, trash, and nature in the city.

Published at Medium.

A Tall, Cool Glass of… Sewage?

In The New York Times Magazine

Photo by Charlie Hamilton James

Vultures Are Revolting: Here’s Why We Need To Save Them

A feature in National Geographic Magazine on these incredibly charismatic but acutely threatened birds. Amazing photos, of course.

The Grumpy Old Man and the Sea

Profile of author Gary Paulsen, in Outside.

Street Farmer

Urban agriculturalist extraordinaire Will Allen, of Milwaukee’s Growing Power farm, in The New York Times Magazine.

The Perky Provocateur

Profile of environmental activist and Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard, in Elle.

Urban Farming Is Booming

But What Does It Really Yield? in Ensia

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