The 9 Billion-Person Question: What kind of cities will we build?
Published on Grist Podcast interview with environmental historian Jon Christensen. [LISTEN IN] 
Atop Everest, two Sherpas and a watchmaker forged a friendship that changed their lives Published in the Peninsula Press and the SF Gate Hundreds of yellow, red and blue specks quickly appear every April in the valley below the 18,000-foot summit of Kala Patthar, one of Nepal’s most popular hiking destinations. The spots are clustered on a rocky field at the edge of the snow and ice that lies in the shadows of the world’s greatest monolith, Mount Everest. They are tents that make up a temporary village known as Everest base camp. In the spring of 2008, Michael Kobold hunkered down in one of these tents and, under the curious gaze of Ang Namgel Sherpa, assembled a mechanical watch. [READ MORE] |
Holiday on Ice
Published in the Santa Cruz Weekly and the North Bay Bohemian “This does not feel like Christmas,” I thought between forced gulps of hot chocolate. I looked over at my teammate Doug, hunkered next to me in our kitchenette dug out of the snow, nursing his frostbitten hands. My dad and the other climbers in our group, Wim and our guide Victor, huddled in our shelter trying to warm themselves. [READ MORE] 
How to Find a Friendly Cup of Coffee
Published in Stanford Magazine The pursuit of coffee has become almost as central to the American lifestyle as the drive to get the most out of one’s dollar. But unfortunately, as Julie Craves of the website Coffee & Conservation says, “there’s no such thing as a ‘cheap’ cup of coffee.” [READ MORE] |
