Eric Smillie is a freelance journalist covering art, travel, food, and culture for GOOD, Make, VIA, Wired, and other publications.
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Map of David de Rothschild’s planned Pacific trip by Emily Cooper for National Geographic Adventure.
When I wrote some practical advice for traveling to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre, I thought it was the most far fetched of the disaster destinations I explored. It was certainly the most far flung, as [...]
Breeder hens on Morgan Farm in Oklahoma by Tim Morgan
Alex at Pruned proposes a tour of industrial-scale chicken farms in Maryland. According to the New York Times article that inspired him, the state produces 570 million of the birds a year. Seems their droppings wash out into the Chesapeake Bay, which is becoming increasingly polluted [...]
Photo of the Berkeley Pit by Don Ankney
Some people have been asking me how I could call a lake so polluted it kills swans a romantic getaway. And am I serious about visiting these ecodisaster sites, or was the article a joke?
Yes and no. The story was a satire on the style of ecotourism destination [...]
Welcome to the Internet, a convenient place to find my new blog and news about the articles I’ve written. I was on NPR talking about my latest story today — a guide to hot ecodisaster travel destinations in the United States, published by GOOD magazine. It’s a roundup of five super fascinating spots like the [...]
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