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Meaghan O'Neill
Meaghan is editor-in-chief of TreeHugger, Discovery Editorial, and TLC's Parentables. She has been a freelance journalist and managing editor of Boston Magazine and is co-author of Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living. Her series The Slate Green Challenge was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2007. Follow her on Twitter @msoeden.
Collin Dunn
Collin is a sustainability enthusiast living in Portland, Oregon. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he became involved in outdoor adventures like skiing, backpacking, hiking and mountain biking from an early age. Before coming to TreeHugger, he cut his enviro-teeth at Grist and Sustainable Style Foundation, both in Seattle, Washington.
When not busily TreeHugging, Collin is an enthusiastic cook, amateur gardener, and zealous explorer of Portland's vibrant food and beverage scene. He likes to spend time outside, learn where things come from, and once made 24 pounds of cheese for a single event (but not all in one ...
Michael Graham Richard
Michael has been with TreeHugger since 2005. He started out as a part-time writer, but after about a year (circa February 2006) he made the transition to full-time editor-in-chief. He held that role until January 2008 (the highlight of this period was of course the acquisition of TreeHugger.com by the Discovery Channel), and he's now editor of the Science & Technology and the Cars & Transportation categories (his two main loves).
It was reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken and Good News For A Change by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel that changed his life. Before that, he ...
Lloyd Alter
Lloyd edits the Design section of TreeHugger, and writes about land use, urban planning, design and architecture, with a few seques into food systems, peak oil, bikes and transportation related to urban issues.
Lloyd is a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto, and is licenced to practice by the Ontario Association of Architects. After practicing architecture he became a real estate developer, building a number of award-winning projects before becoming convinced that the whole process of development and construction is wasteful, destructive and unsustainable. In 2001 he started promoting modern green prefabricated housing as an alternative method ...
Mat McDermott
Mat edits the Business and Energy sections of TreeHugger, as well as writing about resource consumption, animal welfare issues, and the response of religious communities to our current environmental problems.
Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems—climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption—are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.
In addition to his ...
Jaymi Heimbuch
Jaymi's interest in the environment can be traced back to the age of eight when she wrote to the Smithsonian Institute with questions about why her acid rain detection kit's pH strips were turning orange instead of a shade of green the charts indicated. While she never received a reply, her concern for the environment continued to grow, as did her passions for the written word, social activism, and technology as a tool for social and environmental change.
She received her degree in English from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and married her loves of writing and green ...
David DeFranza
Before becoming an Assistant Editor at TreeHugger, David DeFranza wrote about travel, the outdoors, and frugal living for a variety of websites. In addition to performing general editorial duties, David writes about nature, produces slideshows, and serves as TreeHugger's books editor.
Mairi Beautyman
Mairi Beautyman is senior editor at TreeHugger. With a background in literature, art, design, and architecture, she had sustainability hammered in at a young age during a childhood in rural Western Massachusetts. Her dog ate what was in the organic lunch box -- until she embraced her calling. Now she likes thinking about materials that don't stick around, and believes the best green design is also nice to look at. She tends to wander off...Morocco...Indonesia...for extended surf trips, but usually calls Berlin home.
Mairi is also a regular contributor to Interior Design magazine, and has written for publications including ...
Chris Tackett
Chris Tackett manages social media strategy and partnerships for TreeHugger. Chris joined the team in early 2008 and was also a part of Discovery's Planet Green network. Prior to Discovery and TreeHugger, Chris worked for The Raw Story and Lawrence.com as a writer and advertising manager. He has a degree in Journalism and Strategic Communications from The University of Kansas' William Allen White School of Mass Communication. When he's not working on TreeHugger, he likes to follow politics, camp, ride his bike, take pictures and learn to keep his garden alive. He is currently a member of the ...
