by Chris Woodside | Sep 4, 2014 | Magazine Articles
Woman recycling glass in Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, 1990. Seattle Municipal Archives/Wikimedia Commons It’s dawn on waste-collection day in the hilly Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle. Along the curvy streets of this residential peninsula northwest of...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 21, 2014 | Magazine Articles
Old Quarry Road in Guilford, which floods regularly. Residents have voted to raise it, even though only a half-dozen households will benefit from the expensive job. Wrack Lines, Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Not too long ago, a municipal conservation director’s job centered...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 16, 2013 | Magazine Articles
Rachel Shwom The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media A unique annual meeting at the Garrison Institute comes to grips — or at least tries to — with the human behavior component of energy use and climate. A key question: What makes people tick? GARRISON, N.Y. —...
by Chris Woodside | May 29, 2013 | Magazine Articles
Twelve years’ worth of notebooks with goals SEJ Journal, Spring 2013 Early in my freelance career, a successful writer giving a talk about his six-figure income reminded me that I am a business owner. Hearing this made me sit up a little straighter and remember...
by Chris Woodside | May 17, 2013 | Magazine Articles
George Marshall in New York, NY 14-May-13 Who is George Marshall? And why is he devoting his life to talking about climate change? NEW YORK, N.Y. — George Marshall, in suit pants and fedora, looks like a distracted businessman, but in fact he’s a missionary in a...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 11, 2013 | Magazine Articles
Appalachia Journal, Winter/Spring 2013 Going up there and being blown on is nothing. We never do much climbing while we are there, but we eat our luncheon, etc., very much as at home. It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever. —Henry David...