I’m an award winning writer and editor with a solid history in alternative energy and sustainable systems, experience in radio and TV, a painter and photographer, an experienced event organizer, musician and print publisher. These days I have returned to carpentry part time to put food on my family of three cats.

I lived off the grid for 21 years, designed and maintained my own electrical and gravity-fed-water systems, worked for the Environmental Leadership Center at Warren Wilson College, created that college’s environmental journal Heartstone as well as doing successful grant writing, was a green builder for 25 years and worked with a solar energy contractor during part of that time. My six books and syndicated columns include extensive writing on alternative and sustainable systems, the best-selling city guide, Finding Your Way in Asheville and the story of reporting on our crooked sheriff, Pure Buncombe: Reporting on the Life and Crimes of Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford. I have lectured frequently on environmental issues before community groups, schools and annually at the Southern Energy and Environment Expo and am spending more and more time in front of an easel.