If you get stuck behind a paywall on any of the Bloomberg stories, copy the headline from the page l have linked to into a search engine and it will direct you to a free version of the article.
August 2023
How new orbital sensor technology can help agriculture weather the climate crisis.
For Bloomberg Green
photo: Rebecca Marshall/Laif/Redux
The Environmental Disaster Lurking Inside Your Chocolate Bar
March 2023
How to save rainforest in the face of growing demand for coca from China and India?
For Bloomberg News
photo: Akio Kon/Bloomberg
January 2023
One-third of all grains grown goes to animals raised for meat. A Dutch egg producer has figured out how to feed chickens on food humans throw away.
For Businessweek
January 2023
For Businessweek, on a Dutch company with an unusual battery chemistry that's suited for smaller-scale energy storage.
August 2002
For Businessweek, on why contenders to replace lithium-ion batteries are so opaque with their data.
Illustration: David Huang
June 2002
A chemical engineer leading efforts on carbon capture at the US Dept of Energy spoke to me about challenges and opportunities for the industry. (The New York Times)
Photo credit: Michele Gustafson
April 2022
I co-produced a video on the back of my reporting for the story immediately below. The credit reads "reporting by" but I also helped with shot selection, transpo, and more...up to & including holding an umbrella over the camera.
April 2022
Closing a coal mine doesn't mean the end of its contribution to climate change. How companies are harnessing methane to provide net-zero heat and electricity.
For Bloomberg Businessweek
February 2022
For Bloomberg: A roundup of ag-tech fixes
December 2021
For Bloomberg: A device to shed light on the half of the world's catch that's invisible to scientists and regulators.
August 2021
For Bloomberg: Pandemic lockdowns meant fewer crowds and less garbage. Now Amsterdam, Prague and Barcelona want to make some changes permanent.
May 2021
Why some people think recent large seizures of ivory is good news...and why others think that's bunk
April 2021
For Bloomberg, on little known French firm Asmodee's private-equity roll-up of the board games industry
photo: Britta Pedersen/Getty Image
January 2021
For Bloomberg, on new techniques to find leaks in natrual gas distribution networks.
With (mediocre at best) photos by the author!
November 2020
For the NY Times, p. A25
October 2020
Developed by Apeel Sciences, it can double or triple the shelf life of fresh produce. For Businessweek.
September 2020
The explosive potential of the source of Beirut's deadly accident isn't even its gravest threat to human health. But fixes are on the way.
From Bloomberg Green.
June 2020
For Bloomberg, on a plan to change how schools are funded in the state
April 2020
For Bloomberg Green, on a new technology to support supply-chain transparency
June 2019
For The New York Times' science section, new technology for advancing conservation of crucial ocean habitat
February 2019
For Bloomberg's "Hyperdrive," on how insurers are scrambling to prepare for automated vehicles.
October 2018
For Businessweek, a short profile of a financier educating investors about the environmental impact of large-scale meat production.
February 2018
For Bloomberg Businessweek: A biotech star with a fresh $100 million is betting stem cells can treat Crohn’s and MS and perhaps even slow aging.
January 2018
I traveled to Tel Aviv to report for Bloomberg Businessweek on a predictive-medicine startup.
October 2017
A story in American Prospect about an economist and a neuroscientist who teamed up to see if poverty stunts children's brain development.
December 2017
In Fast Company, how consumer protests are affecting corporate branding strategies.
August 2017
The Washington Post
From Sept. 2013-Dec. 2016 I was running the longform journalism product for Participant Media and produced only features.
2013-2016
Sept. 2013
For Los Angeles magazine, I traveled to Yosemite National Park to watch scientists create the most detailed map ever of the Sierra Nevadas.
July 2013
For Time (print), on efforts to rehabilitate the public perception of America's most reviled dog breed.
2012
For Pacific Standard, on the dearth of inspections of facilities manufacturing generic medication overseas.
2012
I met the renowned climate researcher at a conference and he gave me an exclusive advance copy of his new paper showing that the only mathematical explanation for recent record warming events was global warming. For Time.com
2011
Something gave me the idea that perhaps writing for HuffPo for free was a possible path to a job as an editorial writer or op-ed columnist. Clearly that didn't work out. Note: I no longer write for free.
2009
Essay for the New York Daily News featuring adorable pictures of my younger daughter published without her consent (which she has since granted).
From 2004 through 2008 I was working as an editor at various magazines and as a producer for public radio news.
2004-2008
2003
One of these was in the "Best of McSweeney's, Humor Edition" book. Eggers assured me it was assured it was a nepotism-free decision.
After Might magazine folded in 1997 and until 2004, I worked mostly (and mostly unsuccessfully) as a screenwriter. Few of my articles prior to that are online, it being, you know, the Nineties.
1997-2004