
Peter Friederici
Peter Friederici is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science, nature, and the environment from his home in Arizona. His articles, essays, and books tell stories of people, places, and the links between them.
Since 2001, Earth Notes has presented stories of people and place each week to public radio listeners in northern Arizona and New Mexico. Each week’s show is less than two minutes long, but it’s a capsule view of something that makes the Colorado Plateau region such a great place to live. You can listen to [...]
On a deserted Bermudan island, a man spends forty years single-handedly restoring the nesting habitat of a rare seabird. In Chicago and its suburbs, legions of volunteers replant prairies in the shadow of freeways. In America’s Southwest, entrepreneurs work to make pine forest restoration pay for itself; in Virginia, a farmer tries to bring back [...]
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away when they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other’s memory. This is how people care for themselves.” —Barry Lopez Since 2005, I’ve been working [...]
How has the West embraced water recycling? Very (gulp) cautiously.
Worlds of their own, full of import, seeds are, in these astonishing images by Rob Kesseler, not unlike some new planet glimpsed through the bridge windows in a sci-fi flick. The story, with a beautiful slide show, appeared in Audubon.