I’m excited to be joining Discover and contributing to its wonderful array of writings. Casual, friendly, concise, and sprinkled with some images is the way in which I’m approaching this space. I hope you’ll enjoy visiting often. This blog will be filled with dispatches to match its title—notes, observations, factoids, stories, and insights—from the most environmentally tenuous and significant places on Earth. These are places I have been and will travel to chronicling the effect we have on the planet and vice versa—its effect on us.
Make no mistake: This is a celebration of the Earth and what we can do in our everyday lives to preserve it, selfishly, for the time being and times to come.
The crafted text exacted from many of these writings will appear as my new book: You Are Here: The Surprising Link Between What We Do and What That Does to the Planet being published this September by HarperOne.
From all over the world—in places such as the Arctic Circle, the jungles of Borneo, Inner Mongolia, and the middle of the Pacific Ocean—posts will serve to provoke discussion. The idea is to put forth a snippet of a gargantuan tale and let you take over by simply pondering, or by further comment or action. My mission is to implant thoughts, images, data, and notions in your head. Once in awhile, I might even make you laugh.
The thesis of my book You Are Here is how we are all intricately connected to the natural resources of the planet, literally from our living rooms and kitchens and driveways to the forests, jungles, deserts, and seas. While investigating this thesis I’ve come across the most fascinating awakenings to things in our everyday lives, and how they are levers to health and welfare thousands of miles away. Often the hidden effect of what we do comes back to us like a severe boomerang blow. This is the wake up call I’m inciting.
These posts may trail my travels to exotic places, but the adventure won’t be lost.
In fact, with your help it is just about to begin.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
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