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Bio | Books | Trees

Photo: Bob Cullen

Growing up in Washington DC, I learned the importance of public affairs and of good journalism. Hence my career in nonfiction writing and media. I also have a passion for nature, trees and sky. Above, I enjoy an early view of the planet.

Current

Principal Investigator, Editor, Harlow Shapley Project

Founder, President and CEO, Restore Mass Ave

editorial services

PCAST, NSF, NSB, NRC and others

Freelance articles

Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Technology Review, and others

Author

A Grand Avenue Revival: Massachusetts Avenue Landscape History & Design Guide
Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara
The Seventh Continent: Antarctica in a Resource Age
Lost at the Frontier: U.S. Science and Technology Policy Adrift

Books & project support

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ford Foundation, John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, CSIS, Resources For the Future, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

RESUME 

Recent - 2020 - present (coming)

Full - 2020 (pdf)

“...[I]t seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope in its present morass. ”
— Oliver Sacks