Selected work

A more complete archive of my writing can be found here, and examples of my data-driven work live here.

2021

How Bitcoin gave a shuttered coal plant a second life (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)

My Quest for Vegan Soup Dumplings (Tenderly)

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)

2016

Recharging the Brigade: Code for America’s Challenge (Civicist)

2015

The Unfinished Business of the People’s Climate March (Civicist)

2014

How Network-Centric Organizing Made the People’s Climate March (TechPresident)