BACKGROUND My background is in journalism, law, environmental issues, and Canadian political history. As a young man I worked underground in mines across northern Ontario. At age 30, I quit the practice of law and went into journalism, beginning as a cub reporter with The Globe and Mail.  I did all kinds of reporting, won two National Newspaper Awards for writing editorials, became executive editor, and then managing editor, and left the newspaper in 1985, well short of retirement. 

My first book, Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family, was published by Summerhill Press in 1989. It made the best seller lists in the Globe, the Toronto Star, and Maclean’s Magazine. My second book, Love and Solidarity: a Pictorial history of the NDP, was published in 1992 by McClelland & Stewart Inc.

In the first half of the 1990s, I did contract work for the National Round Table on Environment and the Economy, which published various works that I wrote. For 17 years I was an associate member of the international Club of Rome, headquartered in Paris, France.

In January 1996 I began writing the Toronto Star’s environmental column on a freelance basis, and continued writing it for 13 years. In 2009. I retired from the column. All of my columns, plus what I have written for publication, are available on my Articles page. At the moment my website is a mess after it was hacked, and is under reconstruction.

CURRENT I have been working on two novels and have completed a full synopsis of a fantasy novelette. The novel I am currently concentrating on is titled Gaia, Zeus, and Me. It is set in contemporatry times and concerns the clash between the idea of progress and the needs of a living planet. 

We live on a farm pretty much as back-to-landers.