What's New
December 28, 2010 - Paul Epstein, M.D., was featured today on Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman interviewed Paul on snowstorms, heat waves, climate instability and solutions. Here's the clip.
October 3, 2010 - We're on the home stretch with Changing Planet. The copy edits are done, the book is being designed, and we're on course for an April 2011 release.
February 24, 2010 - Can breaching a levee restore a critical floodplain forest? Nature Conservancy magazine wanted to know, and they sent me to Louisiana to find out. This story is the result.
February 23, 2010 - Just got back from the AAAS meeting in sunny San Diego (ahhh, warm sun in February). I wrote for Science about electric cars, specifically some cool new developments in vehicle-to-grid technology. In a few years, our cars might be earning money for us from the power company while they sit parked. Check it out here. I also wrote about a critical technology called energy recycling, also known as co-generation, which makes giant strides against climate change by converting waste heat from industrial processes and power plants back into electricity. Check out the story here.
February 11, 2010 - Two stories of mine ran today in Nuvo Newsweekly--a fun Q&A with Chris Paine, director of the documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, and a profile of Steve Tolen, an Indiana entrepreneur whose company has developed a fascinating technology that could help lower the price of battery electric cars enough to bring them to the mass market.
September 24, 2009 - Julie Bain, ace editor at Ladies' Home Journal, was on The Today Show on Thursday, September 24, talking about the meaning—and science—of dreams. The spot was prompted by my story in the October issue of the magazine. See the Today segment here. Read the story here.
September 9, 2009 - Today's issue of Nuvo Newsweekly, Indianapolis' alt weekly, features my story on Eric and Lisa Stickdorn, eastern Indiana farmers who had the misfortune of living directly downwind of a modern confined feeding dairy operation, complete with an open manure lagoon and runoff galore. Check it out here.
September 5, 2009 - I just returned yesterday from Louisiana, where I was reporting a magazine story on the biggest floodplain forest restoration project in the country--25 square miles of ground, with three million trees planted. After puttering around up a forested bayou across the river in a jon boat with a couple of very patient biologists, with iridescent dragonflies hovering and leg-sized alligator gar jumping and splashing, I began to appreciate what we've lost by clearing all that bottomland forest, and what we could still regain.