The fallacy is believing that climate change is specific only to the weather and the environment. Climate change is all-encompassing.
Taking Climate Change Public
In 2007, inspired by Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and my interest in energy technologies, I launched Terra Marin, a professionally designed and written quarterly publication. A full-color, 18-to-24-page publication with advertising, Terra Marin covered the news about climate and environmental actions and issues in the progressive communities of Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, including embedding sustainability managers at the city and county level and, in general, adhering to concerns then about our expanding “carbon footprint.”
As editor and publisher, I planned the issues, wrote articles, worked on layout with the graphics team, hired freelancers and worked closely with the sales group.
Terra Marin was available at bookstores and other frequently trafficked and like-minded shops. A portion of the magazines were mailed by zip code. The Great Recession made the advertising model a tough sell as businesses began to shut down.
Climate Education
Curriculum writer for “Climate Innovation: Accelerating to Net Zero Emissions,” a six-week online course from Imperial College Business School, London, for executive education candidates. May – June 2022
Co-produced and wrote articles for YClimateAction, a publication celebrating the first anniversary of the City of Tucson’s Climate Emergency Declaration and the steps taken by the Mayor’s Office and the YWCA toward climate mitigation and net zero goals.
Climate in the News
Climate Change Business Journal
In 2011, I began writing for the Climate Change Business Journal out of San Diego. Published by Environmental Business International, the subscription-based business research publication provided detailed market research on nine segments, including renewable energy, carbon capture & storage, climate change adaptation, energy efficiency and green buildings.
As a contributing editor, I covered them all, with primary reports on the state of nuclear energy following the Fukushima accident in Japan and the mining industry as it slowly turned its attention to issues of sustainability in the pre- and post-project phases.
Sample Articles
Lessons from Fukushima: Nuclear Safety, Safety, Safety—at a Price
Fukushima was a wake-up call for the nuclear industry, re-shaping markets worldwide over the past
20 months and forcing operators and proponents to evaluate how to secure existing and future facilities against “extreme” events of the natural kind.
“Fukushima was a terrible disaster [but] it forced the industry to look again at designing for extreme events,” said Nigel !ornton, a director of Energy at Atkins (FY 2012 revenues $2.68 billion; London), one of the world’s leading engineering and design consultancies with 40 years’ experience in nuclear safety.
Mining Industry Makes the Case for Climate Strategies
A hardscrabble industry accustomed to plying the harshest climates on the globe for precious and otherwise indispensable minerals and metals, the world’s multinational mining companies have the wherewithal to tackle climate change adaptation from the ground up, if they want to. And they now have a framework to guide them, created by the mi