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One Green Planet: World Rainforest Day: Go Plant-Based to Save Our Rainforests

Originally published by One Green Planet. It’s tough, in the midst of a global pandemic, to find a cause for celebration this World Rainforest Day. And the smoke still lingers from the Amazonian fires that lit up the headlines nearly a year ago. From their ashes have crystallized the realization: There is no just or sustainable return to life Read More

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A January in Costa Rica

(Published in my college newspaper, the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jacket, in 2008) Imagine wandering into the depths of a neotropical rainforest and taking in the sight of hundreds of plants in vibrant greens towering high above your head. Imagine inhaling a strong musk and seeing its owner, the pig-like peccary, trot past into another patch of Read More