FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • I am writing a book about designing sustainable and resilient landscapes: Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050.

  • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides goals for the global community to work towards. Goal #13 (Climate Action) & Goal #15 (Life on Land), provide a foundation for the development of my book. In the summer of 2023, an independent body of scientists reported that “the world is far off track” of achieving the 2030 Agenda’s Goals. One intervention they proposed to accelerate the transformation to Goals #13 & #15 is “expanding protected areas to 40-50 percent of terrestrial areas by 2050.” My book, Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050, proposes a collaborative, stakeholder-driven approach to achieve that intervention.

  • You bet! Scientists, international policymaking bodies, and world leaders, including the Biden Administration, are advocating for the conservation or restoration of “a substantial portion of our planet” (DOI, DOA, DOC, and CEQ, 2021), somewhere between 30% and 50% by 2050, and my book, Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050, proposes a way to achieve that goal in a collaborative, stakeholder-driven, science-based approach to decision-making called landscape conservation design.

  • I’m shooting for the second quarter of 2024, but sign up for my newsletter and be updated on all things book-related.

  • No, this is my first book, and I’m self-publishing it too through my own company: Mind Matter Media Publishing. I was the lead author of a 2018 peer-reviewed journal article: The iCASS Platform: Nine Principles for Landscape Conservation Design, which was published in Landscape and Urban Planning.

  • Thanks! Let me introduce CAV - The Camp Alone Van. He’s a 2019 Ford Transit 250 Medium Roof. Converting him into a camper van was my 2020 COVID lockdown project. It took me eleven months to build it out. It sleeps two and has a full galley (including a microwave), a TV, a composting toilet, and an outdoor shower. It’s a comfortable ride, and my old bones appreciate it! I’ve put 40,000 miles on it to date exploring America’s iconic landscapes.