I’ve been keeping a written account of what I’ve read since 2006. And it began with a bet. A friendly…
‘Overrun’ now available for pre-order
A few days ago, visiting with some old friends to meet their new baby for the first time, they asked…
‘Before the Flood’ up at West End Phoenix
“Whenever they hear a storm is coming they get this feeling in their stomach of pure worry,” says Chiara Padovani,…
Overrun ARCs are out!
A quick update on Overrun. The ARCs are out, and they look amazing! The advanced reading copies have been sent…
SustainabLEGO
A piece I wrote for Azure Magazine on sustainable LEGO got me thinking about the toys I played with as…
How We Build Better Trees
In August I had the opportunity to travel to China with Asia Pulp & Paper, one of the world’s largest…
‘Hacking the Watershed’ — My Latest for Corporate Knights
In June I had the pleasure of travelling to Waterloo’s Centre for International Governance Innovation, our little slice of Silicon…
Mapping the Urban Forest — One Data Point at a Time
When a resource as valuable as our urban tree canopy isn’t widely understood, the resulting knowledge gap between what we…
Algal blooms Continue Takeover of Lake Erie
The algal blooms in Lake Erie that signal the end of summer and transition into autumn have come into full…
Fighting to Change Canada’s Broken Environmental Assessments
There’s nothing sexy about fighting to improve a regulatory process. Yet in the years since former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen…