I live and work on the edge of Arcata, California, where the weather is usually predictable.

My family and I are happy in our 100-year-old farmhouse where we grow a very big garden, about a mile from the Pacific Ocean. I've been here long enough that I don't want to go anywhere else. When I moved here in 1975 to attend Humboldt State University, and later edited The Lumberjack there, neither had a web page.

I still volunteer for ECONEWS, the regional monthly newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, where I worked as the newsletter's coordinator from 1984 through 1994. I've done a lot of writing about forest practices, water quality and toxics. I've also been on the school board at Pacific Union School, and am a member of the steering committee for the Commission on Education and Communication for IUCN, the World Conservation Union.

I "fell into computers" while equipping a newspaper with the "latest technology" in 1978, started working on EcoNet in 1983, and it turned into a full-time career. I coordinated consulting and special projects for the Institute for Global Communications from 1991 until May 2000, when I started my own consulting business.