Edward O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, known to many as E. O. Wilson, is a young 82-year-old with a great sense of optimism. “Even though I don’t have much hope in that our destructive nature may change, I do trust in the power of our intelligence.” Wilson, winner of two Pullitzer Prizes and author of a new work [...]
James Hansen and the Bioneers/James Hansen y los Bioneros
Carlos Fresneda got an interview with James Hansen after many, many months of trying. We visited him at his apartment in New York, right before the Bioneers conference, where Hansen was one of the speakers, and where we also interviewed Annie Leonard, autora de La Historia de las Cosas. The interview with the “grandfather of climate [...]
Our Lady of Compost, Farmer on the Rooftop, Ithaca Ecovillager
Although I’m already in Seattle, where I did a video shoot with Paul Stamets, mycologist and founder of Fungi Perfecti, this morning, it seems like yesterday (it was actually yesterday) when I was in New York, photographing farms and compost. I also photographed Mario Vargas Llosa after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, New [...]
EcoHeroes Project @ Gallery 7000, press release.
EcoHeroes Project Photography exhibit honors local and international environmental leaders (Sept 15, 2010 – Santa Barbara, CA) In 1969 the Santa Barbara community confronted an environmental catastrophe, an oil spill, which sparked the birth of Earth Day a year later. To celebrate 40 years of solutions and forward thinking, Mercury Press International is proud to [...]
Interview Sylvia Earle / Entrevista Sylvia Earle
Dr. Sylvia Earle is a mermaid. She became on when she was pushed down by a wave a the age of three. Carlos Fresneda and I interviewed her in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interview was published in Yo Dona in Spain and in El Mundo’s website with the headline, “All the damage that [...]
EcoPortraits / EcoRetratos
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, which was born in Santa Barbara one year after the horrendous oil spill that scarred the Channel Islands sanctuary. We’re teaming up with the CEC (Community Environmental Council) for an exhibit of EcoHeroes, on April 17-18 at Alameda Park, Santa Barbara. You can see a preview [...]
The Green Anarchist / El Anarquista Verde
Profil magazine in Austria (profil.at) will be publishing a story on man an nature, for which they’re using a portrait I took of John Zerzan. Zerzan, the green anarchist, says that without the anarchists nobody would remember the protests in Seattle ten years ago, the Battle in Seattle. He’s l´enfant terrible of philosophers, having supported [...]
The Kiss of the Spider / El Beso de la Araña
Carlos Fresneda and I recently traveled to UC Riverside to photograph Cheryl Hayashi, an expert in the genetic structure of spider silk (See her website here). The story was published in El Mundo’s new science/nature section, named Eureka. We played with a pink tarantula (Grammostola Rosea) and talked about the amazing characteristics of spider silk, [...]
Sounds of Silence / Sonidos del Silencio
Gordon Hempton, Olympic National Forest. Photo: Isaac Hernández-Herrero Simon and Garfunkel sang about it, but today is ever more difficult to find silence, natural silence. Ask Gordon Hempton, he’s been searching for it all around the world, only to come back to his hometown in the state of Washington, where he’s trying to preserve One [...]