
is a freelance environmental journalist and writer based in the Bay Area. His writing has appeared in magazines across the country and abroad, most recently in the Wales Arts Review, 7×7.la, and the North Bay Bohemian.

“We grew under the sky rather than under a ceiling. We worked to the sounds of nature, rather than the hum of fluorescent lights.” —Cole Hersey

“These landscapes seem destined to return to what they were before central California was transformed into, what conservationists might call, drowned cathedrals.” —Cole Hersey.

“Students built and salvaged all their own materials for the homes they were to create, along with a few larger communal projects.” —Cole Hersey