Selected work 2022 Showdown in Dixie Valley: Battle over geothermal project pits tiny toad against renewable energy. Can the planet’s heat be harnessed without risking extinction? (The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) This gas would have stayed in the ground if it wasn’t for bitcoin (The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Flying Gardens of Maybe (Audubon) 2021 ‘Lake bagging’ is trending. What is it, and how can you do it safely? (National Geographic) This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along.(Grist) How Xavi Bou Makes His Mesmerizing Portraits of Birds in Flight (Audubon) 2020 Crowded peaks? Not on this little-known trail in the Adirondacks (National Geographic) What does a vertical farm taste like? (The Counter) A 40-Mile, Quarantime Hike Through New York City (Backpacker) 2019 The misbegotten promise of anaerobic digesters (The Counter) Patricia Highsmith’s Uncommon Empathy for Animals (Tenderly) You, Too, Can Be a ‘Thru-Hiker’ (The New York Times) 2018 The explosive dominance of soy over a century went unnoticed by most Americans—except for those growing it (The Counter) Good Tech, Bad Tech (Civicist) Testing Tech for Consensus in a Purple Town (Civicist) 2017 Loveland’s Labor’s Lost: Detroit’s Dubious Civic Tech Champions (Civicist) Detroit’s Foreclosure Crisis and the Need for ‘Information Justice’ (CityLab)