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 [...]

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 [...]

CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z. I’d been in New Zealand two days, and there’d been two shark attacks in Australian waters.  The latest victim, a good-looking snorkeling guide who seemed remarkably cheerful about the whole business (“Must have great pain meds,” my hostess said), couldn’t wait for his arm to heal so he [...]

In case you missed it, this article was originally published on December 7th around the time of Stanford’s Occupy activity. As this quarter gears up again, remember Holly’s powerful connection between environmental responsibility and equity. We look forward to a great quarter blogging! – – – Let me begin by [...]