News Archive
April 5, 2024 “Hoover v. the Anarchists,” for the STS Food and Agriculture Network Workshop
March 2024 “Object: Glass Tile,” The Believer, Issue 145, Spring 2024
March 22, 2024 Divergent Environmentalism Workshop, U. Penn
August 15, 2023 “Easton calls on the EPA to pass clean car standards,” WFMZ
May 17, 2023 “Global Famine” for the Lower Macungie Library “Great Decisions” series
April 5, 2023 “The Great Big Butter Battle,” Not Past It
March 23, 2023 “How to Make a Car Out of Soy…,” for ASEH Annual Conference, Boston, MA
February 23, 2023 “Food for Efficiency, Food for the Masses,” Davis Center Seminar, Princeton, NJ
November 28, 2022 “Davis Center Fellowship,” Lafayette News
September 15, 2022 “Food Insecurity in Easton,” Lafayette News
July 12, 2022 “New Course Connects Agriculture, Food, and Geology in Italy,” Lafayette News
July 7, 2022 “Hanna Zeavin on the Power of Teletherapy and History of Technology,” at Public Books
April 20, 2022 “Food for Thought” Earth Day, facilitated discussion, Lafayette
April 13, 2022 Acquired Tastes reading for the Princeton Public Library
March 3, 2022 “The Internet is Railroads” for the Levitt Center, Hamilton College
February 17, 2022 Ulucakli Series talk on Pure Adulteration, Easton, PA
February 7, 2022 “The Internet is Railroads” for the Just Data Lab at Princeton
January 27, 2022 “Trusting the Grocer,” for The Recipes Project
January 21, 2022 Paperback of Pure Adulteration released
January 20, 2022 “How Not to Feed the World,” for the UTSC Culinaria Speaker Series
December 16, 2021 “Decolonizing the GMO Debate,” The Counter
October 22, 2021 “The Internet is Railroads,” with Jenn Rossmann, as part of the Olmsted Series on Race and Racial Justice (here too)
October 11, 2021 “The Corn Syrup Controversy, and other Acquired Tastes stories,” Episode 209 of The Road to Now podcast
October 9, 2021 “The Internet is Railroads,” Fast Company, with Jenn Rossmann
October 8, 2021 “New Book Brings Historical Context to Modern Food,” Lafayette News
September 21, 2021 Two short essays in Dear McSweeney’s
September 1, 2021 Interview on NewsTalk Ireland Radio
August 17, 2021 Episode of New Books Podcast about Acquired Tastes
August 17, 2021 Acquired Tastes publication day + Virtual Launch Party, 4pm
August 13, 2021 “The Hidden Lives of Modern Food,” MIT Reader
June 20, 2021 New review of Pure Adulteration in the Journal of American History
June 15, 2021 “Meghan O’Gieblyn on God, Machines, and Intelligence,” at Public Books
June 1, 2021 New review of Pure Adulteration in Agricultural History
June 1, 2021 “Ashanté Reese on Food Geographies and Food Justice,” at Public Books
April 19, 2021 Environmental Humanities Book Panel for the ASEH online conference
February 22, 2021 Online book talk, for The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger
February 19, 2021 Coverage of Pure Adulteration in The Lafayette
January 27, 2021 Interview on Well Tempered/WKND Chocolate with Lauren Heinick
December 14, 2020 Pure Adulteration is one of Wired’s Best Books of the Year
November 24, 2020 Author forum with Stuart McCook, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 9, 2020 Interview on Food Sleuth Radio, Episode 588
October 8, 2020 “Your Food Isn’t ‘Natural’ and It Never Will Be,” at Wired
September 29, 2020 Interview at Public Books
August 21, 2020 “The Earth-Human Connection,” about the Food & Farm Studies Salon, Lafayette Homepage
July 15, 2020 Review of Pure Adulteration in Choice Reviews
July 9, 2020 “Greening Lafayette,” about a living wall-garden project on campus, Lafayette Homepage
July 8, 2020 Virtual book talk for the Lafayette Alumni Association
May 20, 2020 Book talk (virtual) at the Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA
May 16, 2020 Commencement speaker for Virginia Tech STS Graduate program
April 24, 2020 Review of Pure Adulteration in the Times Literary Supplement (London)
April 14, 2020 Review of Pure Adulteration in H-Solz-Kult (Berlin)
March 25, 2020: Interview about Pure Adulteration at Rorotoko
March 2020: Review of Pure Adulteration by the Culinary Historians of Canada
February 24, 2020 “Donna M. Riley on Engineering, Ethics, and Social Justice,” Public Books
February 28, 2020 Author Book Panel for Pure Adulteration, Lafayette College
February 15, 2020 Campus Sustainability, AASHE, and STARS at the LVAIC Sustainability Conference, Muhlenberg College
February 10, 2020 “Food in the Era of Adulteration,” Episode 161 of The Road to Now podcast
February 8, 2020 Sustainability Research at the Green Allies Conference, Lafayette College
January 24, 2020 “The Great Electric Sugar Con,” for PBS American Experience
January 5, 2020 KSAT Musical Chimes project receives award from the American Institute of Architects
December 20, 2019 Review of Pure Adulteration in the Literary Review of Canada
December 19, 2019 Pure Adulteration takes “The Page 99” test
December 18, 2019 Review of Pure Adulteration in Science
December 13, 2019 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
December 11, 2019 FYS 18’s “Ten Ways to Know Nature Podcast” now available at Soundcloud
December 10, 2019 “5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers,” LitHub
December 9, 2020 Pure Adulteration highlighted at Seminary Co-op bookstore
December 9, 2019 Pure Adulteration is on shelves now (Chicago, Goodreads, Amazon)
November 25, 2019 Environmental Activism panel discussion at Lafayette
October 24, 2019 Food Justice panel discussion at Lafayette
September 12, 2019 Coverage of Veggies in the Community’s 7th Season at the Lafayette website and LehighValleyLive
August 4-6, 2019 NSF Workshop on Food Waste and Sustainable Urban Systems, at RIT
June 20, 2019 “Why Do Visions of Farming’s Future Never Involve Farmers?” at Slate
June 4, 2019 Reprint of “Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things” interview now out in Think in Public
June 1, 2019 “Fence and Fallow,” in New Geographies volume 10
April 17, 2019 “Morning Conversation on Food: Healthy Land, Healthy Food, Healthy People,” Easton Hunger Coalition’s monthly series
April 13, 2019 “Writing History as Creative Non-fiction,” at ASEH, Columbus, OH
February 27, 2019 “T.L. Taylor on Gamergate, Live-streaming, and E-Sports,” Public Books
January 30, 2019 “Lafayette Study Helps Easton Understand its Climate Change Vulnerabilities,” Lafayette News
December 14, 2018 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
November 14, 2018 An episode of Chart Toppers, WJRH
November 9, 2018 “Hear the Trail Bells Rings,” Lafayette Alumni Magazine
November 5, 2018 “STEM Stars,” Lafayette News
October 26, 2018 “‘Musical Playground’ brings interactive chimes to the Karl Stirner Arts Trail,” The Lafayette (another link here)
October 24, 2018 Faculty Research Forum at Lafayette
October 12, 2018 “Siva Vaidhyanathan on Facebook and Other “Antisocial” Media,” Public Books
September 21, 2018 Veggies in the Community 2018 comes to a close (photo spread)
September 20, 2018 Comment on Nadia Berenstein’s “A Flavor You Can’t Forget” at The Hagley
August 16, 2018 Essay on The Profit of the Earth, H-Environment Roundtable Review
June 1-2, 2018 Acquired Tastes Workshop, Easton and Bethlehem, PA
April 30, 2018 "The History of the Future," for Best Society, Lafayette
April 18, 2018 "Networking Hunger," Earth Week at Lafayette
March 15, 2018 "Capitalists, Experts, and the Food Supply since 1850," at ASEH, Riverside, CA
February 17, 2018 Presentations at the LVAIC Sustainability Conference, Easton, PA
January 25, 2018 "Fake Food," Lafayette News
January 17, 2018 "Feeding Tomorrow's Pards," Lafayette News
December 15, 2017 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
December 7, 2017 "Artifice, Nature, and Con Men," "Artifice, Nature, and Con Men," Boston Alumni
November 16, 2017 Roundtable on Puerto Rico, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Lafayette College
October 30, 2017 The 2017 Candy Hierarchy, BoingBoing.net (and at SCQ)
October 6, 2017 "LaFarm Quad Farmer's Market," The Lafayette
October 3, 2017 "Fruits of Labor," at Lafayette News
September 8, 2017 "Greening Lafayette: A Model for Building Sustainable Community"
April 24, 2017 "Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things," Public Books
April 18, 2017 In conversation with ecologist George Woodwell for Lafayette's Earth Week
April 11, 2017 Hosting McCabe & Mrs. Miller screening for Faculty Favorites Film Series
March 31, 2017 ASEH Conference (Chicago, IL)
March 10, 2017 Stop Making Sense, Workshop at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)
February 23, 2017 Guest on the hit podcast re:mixtape on WJRH
February 4, 2017 "Writing and Sustainability," Moravian Writer's Conference (Bethlehem, PA)
February 2, 2017 Guest on I've Made a Huge Mistake with Darren Husted
December 15, 2016 Final podcasts hosted here at SoundCloud for FYS-18: Ten Ways to Know Nature
December 14, 2016 Alternative Future Environmental Realities, Fa' 16 projects in Technology & Nature
December 13, 2016 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
October 31, 2016 The 2016 Candy Hierarchy, BoingBoing.net (and The AV Club)
October 29, 2016 Final Food in the Public Square Community Conversation, Bethlehem, PA
October 24, 2016 The 2016 Candy Hierarchy Survey, BoingBoing.net
October 24, 2016 "Food Justice and Flood Zones," at Food in the Public Square page
July 24, 2016 Food in the Public Square Forum on Kitchens, Cooking, and Local Food, Bethlehem, PA
July 1, 2016 Pleased to have gotten help from How To Do Everything, Episode 248.
June 21, 2016 "How a Musical Playground Will Spring from Students' Work," Lehigh Valley Express-Times
May 20, 2016 What's Your Food Story, with Julie Guthman, Workshop for the Food in the Public Square project
May 14, 2016 "Forests and Trees, and Food," at Food in the Public Square page
May 11, 2016 Alternative Future Environmental Realities, Sp' 16 projects in Technology & Nature
May 10, 2016 The Karl Stirner Arts Trail Musical Playground, final presentation for Sp' 16 Sustainable Solutions
May 8, 2016 Final projects for History of Technology hosted here
April 12, 2016 "Food as a Means...," at Food in the Public Square page
"How to Police Your Food":
April 9, 2016 at the Organization of American Historians, Providence, RI
March 8, 2016 at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
February 26, 2016 "Teaching with Podcasts (workshop)," at Lafayette
February 20, 2016 LVAIC Sustainability Conference (various), at Lehigh
January 12, 2016 "Greening Lafayette," at Lafayette News
December 17, 2015 New homepage for Various Breads and Butters (to pair with it's Twitter account)
December 16, 2015 Final podcasts hosted here at SoundCloud for FYS-18: Ten Ways to Know Nature
December 14, 2015 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
December 14, 2015 "Humanities in the Public Square: Regional Food Systems," part of an NEH grant with NCC
December 10, 2015 "How to Police Your Food" at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
December 4, 2015 "Baltimore in the World: Food Systems from 1800 to Today," Think Local, Act Regional Workshop, Baltimore, MD
December 4, 2015 "Various Musings and Miscellany," The Lafayette
November 16, 2015 "Food for Thought" about campus food and farm studies at Lafayette
November 13, 2015 "STS in the Fields," conference talk at 4S, Denver, CO
November 2, 2015 "Stratigraphical Analysis of Friday-Sunday Indicators...," at SCQ [co-authored with S. Tonev]
October 31, 2015 The 2015 Candy Hierarchy, BoingBoing.net
October 23, 2015 The Candy Hierarchy Survey, BoingBoing.net
August 30, 2015 "Podcasting the Academy...," Inside Higher Ed
June 10, 2015 “Against technocratic environmentalism,” Aeon Ideas
May 27, 2015 “How to Police Your Food” at Drexel University
April 14, 2015 “A Young Venn Heads to the Diagram Convention,” at the SCQ
March 29, 2015 “Dale Peck Reviews Einstein’s Latest,” in the Science Creative Quarterly, Vol. 1 [originally here]
March 28, 2015 "The Veggie Van” exhibit at Just Food? conference, Harvard Law School
March 20, 2015 Essay on The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, H-Environment Roundtable Review
March 19-21, 2015 ASEH (various sessions) in Washington
December 16, 2014 “Best, Worst, or Only: Hanukah Film Edition,” at McSweeney’s
December 10, 2014 Final podcasts hosted here at SoundCloud for FYS-18: Ten Ways to Know Nature
December 8, 2014 Final capstone project reports hosted here for EGRS 451: Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society
November 25, 2014 Digital Humanities Projects at Lafayette with updates on purefood.lafayette.edu
November 10, 2014 “Should the FDA regulate ‘natural’?” in the NYT
October 31, 2014 The 2014 Candy Hierarchy at BoingBoing (and SCQ)
October 30-31, 2014 "Green Capitalism” conference at the Hagley Museum, Newark, DE
October 23, 2014 “The Appearance of Being Earnest,” at The Appendix
October 15, 2014 The Candy Hierarchy survey at BoingBoing.net
October 7, 2014 Digital Humanities & GIS Mapping, Noon, Skillman Library
October 6, 2014 “Teaching with Technology,” Noon, Skillman Library
September 19-20, 2014 Roethke Festival of Environment and the Arts: “A Place for Fracking?,” on the 4rd St. Arts Campus (here too)
September 17, 2014 New article: “STS and Ethics,” in Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering[with Stephen Cutcliffe]
July 21, 2014 Spring’s student-authored book, Resetting the Table in the Lehigh Valley, now available as a pdf
July 19, 2014 “Is that food pure and natural?” for Alumni Summer College
July 17, 2014 First day for LaFarm’s Farm Stand at Gilbert’s on campus
July 17, 2014 Veggie Van returns to Easton’s West Ward (see here and here)
June 4, 2014 “Podcasts, Students, Publics,” forLVAIC Digital Tools, Muhlenberg College
May 20, 2014 CHASES Workshop on the Environmental History of the South, at Mississippi St.
May 10, 2014 Final projects for History of Technology hosted here
April 15, 2014 Hosting Gary Nabhan for Earth Month, 7:30pm, Oechsle 224
April 15, 2014 Favorite poem reading day on campus. I read this one.
April 7, 2014 Screening of Renewal, followed by film discussion, 7 pm, Oechsle 224
March 28, 2014 “Smart Humor Night” with McSweeney’s writers John Warner and Teddy Wayne, Colton Chapel, 8pm
March 18, 2014 First two books are out (on The Commons and German Environmentalism) in History for a Sustainable Future series at MIT Press
March 16, 2014 “This Morning Was a Poem: On Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby,” at Public Books
March 16, 2014 “Environmental History Slam,” at ASEH in San Francisco
March 4, 2014 “The Environmental Biography of an Adulterant,” research talk at U. Delaware
March 3, 2014 “None of the Above,” Irregular Lunch Series, Skillman Library
February 27, 2014 Commenter for Creating a Common Table in the Lafayette Book Forum, Skillman Library
February 8, 2014 "LaFarm and Sustainability” at the LVAIC Sustainability Conference, Bethlehem, PA
December 23, 2013 Interview of Peter Galison in Public Culture [pdf]
December 9, 2013 Final projects (podcasts) for the First Year Seminar “Ten Ways to Know Nature” are here
December 6, 2013 Final projects for the Capstone Seminar in Engineering and Society (EGRS 451) are here
November 16, 2013 “Food, Farms and Citizenship” session at Our Beloved Community, Kirby Hall
November 14, 2013Lehigh Valley Food Forum, Nurture Nature Center, for the Buy Fresh, Buy Local Food Assessment Report
November 10, 2013 The Assessment Report on Lehigh Valley Local Food Economy is available here
October 31, 2013 “What’s with the Chipotle Scarecrow ad?”, a discussion on factory farming, Oechsle 224
October 30, 2013 And again: The 2013 Candy Hierarchy
October 11, 2013 Teaching and Community Engagement Roundtable, 104 Scott Hall
October 1, 2013 With all due hesitation, my acting debut
July 12, 2013 “Students Propose Solutions to Dangerous College Hill Intersection,” at Lafayette.edu
June 17, 2013 “Items from the NYT ‘Meh List’ or Things in Front of Me Right Now?” at McSweeney’s
June 8, 2013 Workshop at Union College on Engineering and Liberal Education
May 23, 2013 Final mapping page for SP13’s “Technology & Nature” (EGRS/EVST 373) is available here.
May 20, 2013 Final projects for 2013’s Capstone Seminar on Engineering and Society (EGRS 451) are available at the class website.
May 7, 2013 “The Confidence Economy: An Interview with T.J. Jackson Lears,” at Public Books
April 17, 2013 Favorite Poem Day at Lafayette -- I read this one
April 15, 2013 Screening of A Place at the Table, 7 pm, Hugel Hall
April 4, 2013 “Cottonseed, Gilded Age Food, and Angst for the Natural,” at the ASEH meeting in Toronto
April 2, 2013 Roundtable review of Notes from the Ground, at H-Environment
March 20, 2013 “I Have a Few Disclaimers about My New Short Story,” at McSweeney’s
March 20, 2013 “The Pure and the Adulterated,” Skillman Library, Lafayette College
March 16, 2013 Discussant at WHEATS, U. Penn
March 8, 2013 Interviewed in Bytes and Books, the library newsletter
February 27, 2013 Panelist for “Technology and the Future of the Classroom,” Scott Hall, Lafayette College
February 2, 2013 Food, the City, and Innovation Conference at UT-Austin
January 9, 2013 “Days at the Museum, Part 5,” at McSweeney’s
December 29, 2012 Generous new review of Technoscience and EJ--”extremely well-written”--in Social Science Journal
December 12, 2012 Final class projects (podcasts) for Fall 2012’s “FYS: Ten Ways to Know Nature” available here
November 16, 2012 Nice quote in Daniel Engber’s “Against Nature” at Slate
October 29, 2012 Behold: the 2012 Candy Hierarchy at BoingBoing
September 7, 2012 “All Praise the Civics of Food Hubs” at Civil Eats
July 20, 2012 “The Historical Production (and Consumption) of Unsustainability,” in The Hedgehog Review
June 19, 2012 “Environmentally Just Transformations of Expert Cultures,” in Environmental Justice
June 15, 2012“An Open Letter to the State of Pennsylvania,” at McSweeney’s
June 14, 2012“Interdisciplinary Technology Course Blends Engineering and Policy Studies,” at the Lafayette webpage
June 6-7, 2012 “Citizenship and the Good World” conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Charlottesville, VA
May 4, 2012 Final projects for EGRS 451 (the Capstone Seminar) all available at the class’s new website
April 23, 2012 “Questions about Fruits and Labors,” a brownbag lunch discussion on Food Justice, 12 pm, at Lafayette
April 13, 2012 New review of Technoscience and EJ--”a valuable resource”--in Organization & Environment
April 12, 2012 Second speaker in Lafayette’s Forum on Technology and the Liberal Arts: M. McCaughey, 7 pm
March 30, 2012 “Honest, Serendipity, and the Spice Mill,” at the Hagley Museum
March 28, 2012 “Farms, Fields, and Forests” at ASEH Conference, Madison, WI
March 23, 2012 Great new review of Technoscience and EJ in Chemical Heritage Magazine
March 22, 2012 First speaker in Lafayette’s Forum on Technology and the Liberal Arts: M. Wisnioski, 7 pm
March 16, 2012 “From the Earth: The Environment in Virginia’s Past & Future,” Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
March 2, 2012 Lecture on Innovative Teaching and Student Projects, University of Scranton
February 17, 2012 First review of Technoscience & EJ (“recommended”) from Choice Reviews
February 10, 2012 New review of Notes (a good one) from Organization & Environment
December 19, 2011 Final website projects for Fall 2011’s “The Governance of Technology: An Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy”
December 16, 2011: A profile over at the Lafayette homepage
December 6, 2011: A letter (short personal essay) in the new issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly (#39).
November 5, 2011: Food Studies and STS roundtable at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference
October 31, 2011: The Candy Hierarchy returns over at BoingBoing
October 26, 2011: Campus Sustainability Day talk on “An Ecology of Food and Agriculture,” 12-1 pm, on campus here at Lafayette
October 3, 2011: Adulteration and butter article over at Good Magazine (though not by me)
October 2, 2011: Notes from a Native New Yorker, a post about NFTG at the Yale blog
August 25, 2011: New review of Notes (“great fun to read”) in the Journal of Southern History
August 19, 2011: Technoscience and Environmental Justice released
June 29, 2011: Pre-print of “Analysis as Border Patrol,” a new article in Endeavour
June 22, 2011: “Trust Me,” an essay on adulteration and confidence at The Morning News
June 16, 2011: “Small Details in Morven Horse Barn Lead to Big Energy Ideas,” at UVA Today (about the Morven Summer Institute)
June 1, 2011: Micro-interview of Peter Galison in The Believer’s June issue
May 23, 2011: “Choosing Food,” on WMRA’s Virginia Insight
May 13, 2011: “The Consequences of Dinner,” a profile of sorts about local food studies in U.Va. Magazine
April 19, 2011: Food Collaborative’s Q&A panel and screening of Black Gold
April 18, 2011: New review of Notes in Environmental History
April 14, 2011: “Local Food Contrarians, Or, Environmentalism as Carbon Accounting,” at Grist.org
March 17, 2011: “Living Rural and Eating Local” panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book
March 16, 2011: Flash Seminar on “The Politics of Food” at U.Va.‘s Morven Farm
March 14, 2011: “Food Anxieties” workshop and forum at UC-Santa Cruz
March 7, 2011: A kind review of Notes, this one in Agricultural History
March 3, 2011: Food Collaborative co-hosting Gary Nabhan’s talk, “Climate Change and Place-based Food”
March 1, 2011: Three new reviews of Notes, in Technology & Culture, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and Isis
February 13, 2011: The Food Collaborative is co-hosting Four-Season Harvest’s Eliot Coleman at Hereford Residential College
January 21, 2011: “January Term Class Tackles Local Food Hub Challenges”
January 6, 2011: UVA Today story, “Two Courses Examine the Technology and the Politics of Food”
January 3-14, 2011: STS 2500: “History, Technology, and Sustainable Agriculture” during J-Term.
November 21, 2010: A new exhibit with photographs by Caroline Higgins now up in the Thornton Hall Art Gallery.
November 20, 2010: New episode of Meet the Farmer TV, #77, spotlights the Food Collaborative.
November 7, 2010: Queen of the Sun is playing at the Virginia Film Festival, at 11:30 am—I’m introducing and leading discussion of it
November 3, 2010: Speaking about Notes as part of the Faculty Author Series at the Colonnade Club, Noon-1 pm
October 7, 2010: Moderating a panel on local food and the media hosted by the UVA Food Collaborative, 4-6 pm
September 24, 2010: A great new review of Notes in the Journal of American History
September 14, 2010: Interview at Couteaux Review, a DC-based culinary magazine with a sustainability focus
September 11, 2010: Relay Foods tent at this year’s Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, 1-2 pm
September 9, 2010: Screening of Fresh at 7 pm in 108 Clark, co-hosted by Hereford College and The Food Collaborative, with discussion to follow
August 30, 2010: First meeting of The Food Collaborative this semester, Noon, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
August 22, 2010: New article now out (on-line pre-print) in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, part of a special issue I co-edited on the common histories of soil science and geology
August 5, 2010: A letter (a short personal essay, more or less) in the new issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly (#35)
July 2, 2010: More book discussions in the UVA Today story “Summer Reading”
June 17, 2010: UVA Today story on “Books for Fathers and Sons”
June 16, 2010: “Nest,” a suburban nature essay of sorts, at The Morning News
June 5, 2010: “Dot Days” at the Charlottesville Farmer’s Market, with The UVA Food Collaborative
April 20, 2010: “Agricultural Acts: On the Future of Farming and Food” at SUNY-Morrisville and Colgate University
April 18, 2010: “What is Sustainability” Earth Week Forum at U.Va.