Since March 2010, I’ve become intimately acquainted with many of the things that people in our society no longer want to live with: empty liquor bottles, deflated soccer balls, the guts of deer, aluminum siding. My team and I have picked up this stuff on roadsides from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. It’s […]
Jeff Chen
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The Hungry Intern: Dinner
The starving journalist is no longer starving, and he filled up on all local foods
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The Hungry Intern: Lunch
Jeff’s zany local food adventure continues with his second meal of the day
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The Hungry Intern: Breakfast
A zany attempt to eat locally, on a starving journalist’s budget. Episode 1.
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Urban Creeks 2.0
In San Francisco’s East Bay, activists try to reconnect impoverished communities with their local waterways.
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The HCN miracle
Well, you’ve done it again. Just when we were worried that the worsening economy would seriously cripple our financial condition, you stepped up in December with a blizzard of support. All told, our readers provided $150,000 in Research Fund gifts — a record amount for a single month. The presses (and the electrons at hcn.org) […]