This is the latest addition to Holly’s column ”Seeing Green.” You can find the original post in The Stanford Daily here. When I was small, the word “desert” conjured images of towering Saharan dunes: windswept sand punctuated by rare oases, the only sign of life an occasional animal track quickly buried by the next [...]

This is the most recent article from Holly’s column, “Seeing Green.” You can find the original post in The Stanford Daily. CHERRY HILL, NJ — Standing next to my Dad under the watchful eyes of the sculpted Jesus I remembered well from childhood church services, I resolutely censored a mental [...]

This is the latest addition to Holly’s column, “Seeing Green.” You can find the original post in the Stanford Daily here. End-of-year academic stress getting you down? Here’s a spirit-lifting tip: Open your browser and Google “Heartland billboard.” You’ll quickly find The Heartland Institute’s latest propaganda piece: a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski next [...]

This is the latest post from Holly’s column, “Seeing Green.” You can find the original post in The Stanford Daily here. ST. HELENA, CA – It’s a fine Saturday, and the traffic lines up on Highway 29 as the day’s crop of tourists meander from vineyard to vineyard along the road that [...]

LINCOLN, NE – At 11:30pm, after thirteen hours of math ecology talks, I was dead to the world. Almost. I just couldn’t figure out why someone had suddenly parked all the city’s fire engines outside our hotel, or why their sirens sounded so odd. Despite my best attempts to burrow [...]

This is the latest installment of Holly’s column ”Seeing Green”  Most of my fieldwork in New Zealand took me inland, up to the mountains alongside the spectacular route traced by the TranzAlpine rail line. The route is popular among tourists for its views of the Southern Alps: each morning, a ten-car passenger train studded [...]