In two decades as a freelance writer, I have written more than two hundred articles and essays for publications ranging from Glamour and Redbook to the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times.
Here are a few openers:
"A year ago, Pat Proulx-Lough felt so overwhelmed by reports about climate change that she couldn’t even listen to the news. “My husband was finishing a dissertation on water resources, and I became hopeless and fearful,” says Ms. Proulx-Lough, a therapist in Portland, Maine.
Fast-forward to summer ’08 and Proulx-Lough is not just hopeful, but
excited about the future. What happened? She tapped into the Transition
movement."
Christian Science Monitor, 9/11/08
"Some industries are obvious energy hogs: airlines, autos, office buildings. Others, like health care, are stealthier consumers. But the U.S. health-care infrastructure is one of the country's hungriest users of energy..."
More Sustainability
Time.com, 11/10/08
"It is 5 P.M. in Tuesday, March 17, the historic turning point for South Africa when whites voted overwhelmingly to strike down apartheid. In its slick offices in Sandton, the glistening Johannesburg suburb that is South Africa's equivalent to Madison Avenue, Herdbuoys is bustling..."
The New York Times, 5/24/1992
More Southern Africa
"In envisioning myself getting pregnant, I've long had the fantasy that I would turn 30 (or 31 or 32.) and throw my birth control pills out the window. It would be a fantastically liberating act, the biochemical equivalent of letting down my hair."
The New York Times, 10/28/1991
"The high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among soldiers returning from Iraq is one of the many "inconvenient truths" of this war. Inconvenient largely because it is costly: The most effective and humane means of treating PTSD are time-intensive and long-term..."
The Christian Science Monitor, 8/20/2007
More Commentary
“Most of us take for granted that those rectangular green slips of paper we keep in our wallets are inviolable: the physical embodiment of value. But alternative forms of money have a long history and appear to be growing in popularity.”
Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity
Time.com, 12/14/08
More Progressive Economics
Time.com, 9/11/09
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