As a young woman my mother took the trip of a lifetime to Europe in the momentous year 1961. I helped her to share memories in this little essay. She describes a nice route for all American travelers to follow through the Old Continent.
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Regions
Regions looks at people and places to consider our life in nature. It pursues the question through five chapters describing the life and work of people across five continents, looking at their uses of land, food and energy in rural and great urban regions. In this pursuit it opens the unique perspective of the regionalist and offers the idea of regionalism as a creative response to the question of how to make our home in nature.
A perfect world
The energy transition, a great transformation to a future carbon-free energy system, is coming into view in Dubai. The pieces – the fuels, the technologies and systems – were scattered somewhat randomly around Expo City, the site of Expo 2020 (2021-22) and the UN’s Cop28 (2023). But it required …
MEA energy sectors
I write about the Middle East and Africa, fascinating regions that hold enormous potential for the energy transition with magnificent natural resources and human talent.
Hydrogen
With unique advantages for low-carbon hydrogen production, MENA offers an excellent vantage point for a writer to cover an emerging future energy industry.
MEA energy & utilities
As editor of Informa Energy & Utilities covering the Middle East and Africa (MEA), I oversaw publication of news, features, interviews, in-depth reports, podcasts and webinars.
Remaking Union Station
Union Station is a place where all points meet, where city, region, and world come together. It is where bold planning for Chicago should be reborn.
Expo 2020
Dubai Expo 2020 was the first world exposition to be held in the Middle East. It said something about energy. It said something, unwittingly and despite itself, about the world’s hoped-for energy transition(s)… My editor at AramcoWorld pushed me discover how ‘sustainable’ it really was, which we indeed tried to discover…
In memoriam – Rev. John Johnson
“Being black, being born black, being raised black…. I came into it when I first started breathing,” said Elder John Johnson of the Blues. It was his last conversation with me before his death in November at age 84. He was a dear friend.
Illinois Farmer
This short book, history of a farm, concerns my cousin Alvin, his family and their farm at Island Grove. Alvin tells me how he managed the farm for 60 years, sharing his constant concerns and a farmer’s enduring perspectives. He describes how his father, grandfather, and great grandfather worked the land and built up the farm across many seasons.
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