{"id":546,"date":"2022-04-17T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/?page_id=546"},"modified":"2024-02-05T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:04:00","slug":"articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/?page_id=546","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynature.org\/article\/the-native-seed-gold-rush\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/baynature.org\/article\/the-native-seed-gold-rush\/\"><em>The Native Seed Gold Rush<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">California has big dreams for using habitat restoration as a tool to fight climate change. The result? A very seedy gold rush. Edited by the inimitable Kate Golden for <em>Bay Nature<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/baynature.org\/article\/a-slime-of-ones-own\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/baynature.org\/article\/a-slime-of-ones-own\/\">A Slime of One&#8217;s Own<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">Many thanks to Kate Golden for the perfect Virginia Woolf-referencing title to this pure delight of an assignment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/business-technology\/inventor-looks-to-shake-up-cleantech-with-smart-solar-trackers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/business-technology\/inventor-looks-to-shake-up-cleantech-with-smart-solar-trackers\/\">The Birth of a Sun-Tracking Robot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">Sometimes, your favorite stories start with the sincere curiosity regarding what the hell is going on at the old pipe organ factory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/politics\/people-are-still-living-in-femas-toxic-katrina-trailers-and-they-likely-have-no-idea\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/politics\/people-are-still-living-in-femas-toxic-katrina-trailers-and-they-likely-have-no-idea\/\">People are Still Living in FEMA&#8217;s Toxic Katrina Trailers and they Likely Have no Idea<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">In which I learned that HUD doesn&#8217;t bother to regulate levels of formaldehyde for mobile homes, on the grounds that they are only temporary dwellings. Edited by the great Scott Rosenberg over at <em>Grist<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/how-the-bay-areas-last-slaughterhouse-dodged-the-axe\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/how-the-bay-areas-last-slaughterhouse-dodged-the-axe\/\"><em>How the Bay Area&#8217;s Last Slaughterhouse Dodged the Axe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">Sure, you&#8217;ve heard about the housing crisis, but have you heard about the neighborhood slaughterhouse crisis? Edited by Darby Minow Smith, as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/why-the-food-movement-and-family-farmers-need-to-learn-to-get-along-little-dogies\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/why-the-food-movement-and-family-farmers-need-to-learn-to-get-along-little-dogies\/\">her extraordinary series for <em>Grist<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>on the plight of the mid-sized farm.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/?p=26\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/?p=26\">To Eat Local, Kill Loca<\/a>l<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">My first feature story, for the late, great <em>San Francisco Magazine<\/em>. Edited by Jan Newberry, to whom I will always be grateful to\u2014both for working with such a newbie journalist on such a complicated story, and for the charcuterie platter she brought in for the toughest edit session. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Native Seed Gold Rush California has big dreams for using habitat restoration as a tool to fight climate change. The result? A very seedy gold rush. Edited by the inimitable Kate Golden for Bay Nature. A Slime of One&#8217;s Own Many thanks to Kate Golden for the perfect Virginia Woolf-referencing title to this pure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/?page_id=546\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.strangerworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}