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  • Four Fish TED Talk

    TED

    The state of the ocean in 14 miinutes

  • Fish Talk Podcast

    Spotify

    Everything you wanted to know about seafood and were afraid to ask

  • Medium

    Medium

    Regular updates on food, politics and the environment

  • Shrimp Replacement Theory

    Inverse 02/28/2025

    what makes a vegan shrimp bounce?

  • Caviar Pizzas, New Money, and the Death of an Ancient Fish

    Popular Science 12/10/2024

    Fancy fish eggs have become the latest luxury good to go viral on social media, raising questions about the future of sturgeon

  • A Vineyard Grows at Ground Zero

    Wine Enthusiast 09/09/2024

    The rarest vintage in the world gives hope at a site of tragedy

  • Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret

    New York Times 08/11/2024

    A quarter century after the birth of the "sustainable" seafood movement, a look at what worked and what's left to do.

  • The Haus on the Hill

    Adirondack Life 05/01/2024

    Profile of my grandparents, the New York Philharmonic timpanist Saul Goodman and the cellist Lillian Rehberg Goodman

  • The Brothers Who Set New York’s Restaurant Scene Afloat

    Eater 04/09/2024

    Alex and Miles Pincus and their "Crew" fleet of ship/restaurants are bringing New Yorkers back to the water

  • Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary

    Hakai 04/05/2024

    Utah's Great Salt Lake is disappearing and taking with it a key component of global aquaculture

  • Elevating the Art of Italian Ingredients

    Departures 12/09/2023

    Why Santomiele figs are so good to eat and so good for the planet

  • Can a Scientist and an Owl Be Friends?

    Audubon 12/01/2023

    A profile of Carl Safina and his book Alfie and Me

  • An Acre of Dreams

    Adirondack Life 09/30/2023

    What could a person do with a small patch of land in the climate unsafe future ahead?

  • That Can of San Marzano Tomatoes Might Be Fake

    Eating Well 09/29/2023

    The tastiest tomato in the world is rare and illicitly imitated

  • How Ditching My Smartphone Made Me a Better Father

    The Arrow 09/07/2023

    To end your child's digital distraction, end your own.

  • Embrace the Nonna State

    Back Forty 08/30/2023

    How the Mediterranean Diet got derailed by global capitalism and how to set it straight again

  • All Hail the Mighty Stick Shift

    The Arrow 06/12/2023

    Why every teenager should learn about a manual transmission

  • What Gen X Really Learned from Charlie the Tuna

    The Arrow 05/29/2023

    Why would a fish want to be killed and put in a can?

  • Five Types of Seafood You Should Be Eating

    The Arrow 05/08/2023

    They are not the usual suspects

  • My High School Haters

    The Atlantic 05/07/2023

    How Twitter and the internet disrespect writers

  • The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday

    Time Magazine 04/23/2023

    Shouldn't the planet that makes life itself possible be worth more than a day?

  • Our City Could Become One of the World’s Greenest, but It Won’t Be Easy

    New York Times 02/08/2023

    Local Law 97 is coming to New York City. Are we ready?

  • Why We Need Older Heroes

    The Arrow 02/08/2023

    The key is to just keep skiing

  • Zero to Jackrabbit

    Adirondack Life 02/07/2023

    Pushing the limits of middle age on a legendary cross country ski trail

  • Unearthing the Original Mediterranean Diet

    Hakai 12/13/2022

    Greek archaeologist Dimitra Mylona goes searching for a fishier Mediterranean past.

  • Good Catch: How to Find the Healthiest, Eco-friendly Fish

    Yoga Journal 12/10/2022

    A few fish you ought to know.

  • Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese Sauce Is Iconic but . . .

    Eating Well 09/22/2022

    Is it time to trade the meat for mushrooms?

  • What My Son’s First Job Taught Him About Self-Esteem

    The Arrow 09/12/2022

    Working is good for a young man, to a point . . .

  • Between Wind and Whale

    Eating Well 03/25/2022

    A complicated battle in the Gulf of Maine threatens to take lobster off the menu

  • Through the Ice

    Adirondack Life 02/01/2022

    A winter way of life for a veteran Adirondack guide

  • Les ravages de la surpêche : il n’est pas trop tard pour réagir

    GEO 01/24/2022

    A look at over fishing (in French) for the journal GEO

  • Shopping for the Apocalypse

    Adirondack Life 09/20/2021

    My dysfunctional, anxiety-ridden search for a climate-safe Adirondack haven

  • An Oasis in the Shadow of 9/11

    The Guardian 08/28/2021

    After catastrophe, a garden was my way out

  • A Garden at Ground Zero

    New York Times 07/16/2021

    Even with harsh winds and little sunlight 10 stories above Broadway, you can beat the elements if you are persistent — and clever enough.

  • 7 Simple Cooking Tips for Your Eco-Friendliest Kitchen

    Food52 05/11/2021

    It's not always what you cook but how that makes you more sustainable

  • The Four Fish I’d Still Eat Even After Watching Seaspiracy

    The Guardian 05/10/2021

    Keeping a food relationship with the sea has its merits

  • The Realities of Owning an Electric Car in New York City

    Curbed 04/30/2021

    Two weeks of driving on electric reshaped my ideas about the City

  • We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete

    New York Times 04/13/2021

    The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure

  • Your Biggest Climate Decision Isn’t What You Cook—It’s What You Don’t

    Food52 04/13/2021

    Food waste is a huge problem. Here's how to fix it.

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