Feature Making Waves
Sept/Oct 2007
Contribute

Nonprofit PlayPumps uses online word-of-mouth to boost the bottom line

Q&A Labor of Lovins
Oct/Nov 2007
Plenty magazine

The cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute talks about America's path to energy efficiency.

Q&A Mister Bean
Sept. 11, 2007
Salon.com

Ken Albala, author of Beans: A History, discusses the social and culinary impact of the humble legume.

News Feature Restaurateurs-to-Be
Look Before Leaping
August 8, 2007
New York Times

Boot Camp, a service provided by New York City, aims to help small restaurants get off the ground and thrive — and strengthen the city’s economy.

Series From Soil to Stoops: The
Local Food Movement Hits Urban America
Summer 2007
Plenty magazine online

There's a subtle irony embedded in our current national craving for locally grown food: Cities, the antithesis of the countryside, have arguably become the easiest place to indulge it. Here, meet six urban activists changing what our cities' poor and rich alike are eating.

News Low-wage Work Can Be Nasty,
Brutish, Ignored
June 25, 2007
City Limits Weekly

In 21st-century America, there are far more workers, but less labor law enforcement. A new report tells the tale.

Review Up From the Roots
July 2007
Saveur magazine

A novelist gets back to the land--and the kitchen.

Q&A From Stories to Strawberries
June/July 2007
Plenty magazine

Celebrated author Barbara Kingsolver chronicles her year-long experiment in local eating.