The Nature Beat
Gabe PopkinThe Nature Beat is an attempt to fill a major gap in the journalism landscape. I write and publish stories and essays about nature, trees, forests and all the living things that keep our world going.
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A few (updated) thoughts on year-end giving
This is an update of a post I sent out exactly a year ago. I hope it may help those still deciding where to direct those year-end donations!
I’m guessing that you, like me, are inundated with year-end fundraising appeals right now....
A better way to plant trees
Some of the trees I’ve planted in my neighborhood
Besides writing, the thing I’ve probably devoted the most time to over the past decade or so is trees. I’ve planted or helped plant well over 100 trees: trees in my (already over-treed) yar...
A free tree walk in DC!
Me and a tree
For the past 10 or so years, I’ve led walks in the DC area to teach people the basics of tree identification. Once I even wrote about it for the New York Times.
I haven’t organized many walks over the past couple years, but...
Book Review: "We Are Eating the Earth"
Some months back, a journalist named Michael Grunwald with whom I’d exchanged a few emails mentioned to me that he had a book coming out on agriculture and climate and he hoped I’d review it. I had to disappoint him by telling him I wasn’t...
A few thoughts on year-end giving
I’m guessing that you, like me, are inundated with year-end fundraising appeals right now. I always find it amusing when nonprofit executives earning multiple times my salary ask for my money. Maybe I should be asking them for donations!
H...
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A writer covering science, the environment and the natural world from just outside the nation's capital.
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