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Seafood Watch: Celebrating 20 Years of Sustainable Seafood—a Look Back at Our History

Originally published on the Seafood Watch blog. You could say that Seafood Watch, the organization at the forefront of the sustainable seafood movement for the last 20 years, got its start from a little bit of well-intended theft. In 1997, the Monterey Bay Aquarium opened its first major exhibition devoted to a conservation topic, called…

Mount Umunhum

Originally published in RoadRUNNER Magazine. To anyone within a 100-mile radius, it’s known simply as “The Cube”: a giant cement block atop 3,486-foot Mt. Umunhum that appears ready to disgorge space aliens at any moment. This 1962 Air Force radar tower from the Cold War is sealed up tight (due to lead waste), but the…

Prince of Rides: Tracing the Coasts, Cliffs and Bays of Nova Scotia and the Cabot Trail by Motorcycle

This story originally appeared in RoadRUNNER Magazine. For the fourth time in one day, I am mangling the pronunciation of town names in Nova Scotia. Is it Why-COCO-maw or Why-COG-ama? Anti-GONE-ish or An-TIG-anish. Meredith and I have been motorcycling in Canada for three days, but I haven’t gotten any better at this. Meanwhile our traveling companions,…

The Seminal Motorcycle

Originally published in Rider Magazine.  Recently I visited one of my favorite cafes, a short ride up the Pacific Coast from my Santa Cruz, California, home. Called Downtown Local, the place is a syrupy mix of old motorcycles, vintage gas tanks stacked on shelves like cordwood, and decades worth of vinyl, which sound a little…