Journalist | Writer
Stories
Recent Highlights:
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Earth Island Journal: "An Uneasy Return: As wolves regain ground in Europe, so do age-old fears" (cover story for the spring 2024 magazine)
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Climate Home: "Tesla Gigafactory drives Germany’s latest climate justice struggle"
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Parliament Magazine: "Parasite Parking: A guerrilla art project in Berlin reclaims parking space"
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Parliament Magazine: "The Great Lithium Race" (print feature)
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Deceleration News & Who What Why : "Bitcoin Mining Boom Continues in Texas as State Shatters Energy Records"
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SF GATE : "The San Francisco resident documenting the city’s coyote population"
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Decrypt : "Lone Star State ‘Will Be Silicon Valley’ of Crypto: Texas Blockchain Council President"
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DW News: "Employees say HelloFresh is union busting"
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Business Insider : "I'm an Air Force mechanic. It's a very stressful job, but I love it — here are the best and worst parts."
Deutsche Welle (DW)
News features on business and labor stories for DW Business Online:
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Ukraine labels German wholesaler Metro as 'sponsor of war' 03/21/2023
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Delivery apps disappear in Europe as funding runs out 12/27/2022
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Employees say HelloFresh is union busting 8/27/2022
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US miners try to clean up lithium production 8/9/2022
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The dangers of app-based delivery work 5/2/2022
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Gorillas delivery service fires back at striking workers 10/8/2021
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Gorillas delivery riders protest unfair working conditions 7/20/2021
Earth Island Journal
Reporting focused on the intersection of human activity and the environment for EIJ's website and print magazine:
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Teaching on a Warming Planet: (Book Review) Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence Volume 38 Issue 1 | Spring 2023
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Activists Mount Hail Mary Defense Against Expanding Coal Mine in Germany 1/11/2023
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Germany Needs to Ramp Up Efforts to Reduce Fossil Fuel Use 4/5/2022
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Caught in a War They Didn’t Start, Ukrainian Climate Activists Call for Peace 3/4/2022
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On the Edge (Cover Story)
Volume 37 Issue 1 | Spring 2022
Focus on: Coal mining in Germany
I originally learned about Lützerath, the ancient village to be bulldozed for Germany's largest active coal mine, from one of Greta Thurnberg's Instagram posts. Roughly a year and half later I was ankle deep in mud taking photos of the largest protest I've ever seen, while Thunberg was being removed by German police – a moment that made international headlines.
Between these moments, I had learned everything I could about Lützerath and the history of coal mining in North Rhine-Westphalia. Along with my colleague, Leonard Frick, I had spent a number of nights in tents in "Lutzi Camp" speaking with activist organizers who dared to dream of a world free from the power structures that allow corporations to flatten whole villages for fossil fuels.
Collected here is my published reporting on Lützerath.