Eric Smillie is a freelance journalist covering art, travel, food, and culture for GOOD, Make, VIA, Wired, and other publications.
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Click photo for larger version. Image courtesy of Kennecott Utah Copper.
The Colorado River spent 6 million years carving the Grand Canyon. It’s taken Utahans only a century to dig Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine. Ok, so the Grand Canyon gets as deep as 6,000 feet and Bingham only reaches a bit past three-quarters of a mile. [...]
See the red stuff on that rock? That’s a swarm of ladybugs. A few weekends ago some friends and I paid a visit to their winter home on Mount Diablo, near Clayton, California. It was almost scary how many there were. Here’s a closeup.
It seems they live down by the coast in the warm [...]
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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