Jason Mark

Jason Mark is a San Francisco Bay Area-based environmental journalist and the author of Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man. In the course of his writing career, Jason has covered a wide range of topics—from climate and energy, to food and farming, to wildlife conservation—that illustrate the intersections between industrial civilization and wild nature. From 2007 to 2015, he was the editor of the award-winning quarterly Earth Island Journal. Since 2015, he has been the editor in chief of SIERRA, the bi-monthly magazine of the Sierra Club. His writings on the environment have also appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The Atlantic and The American Prospect, among many other publications.

In 2005, Jason helped to revive San Francisco’s largest urban farm. He continues to keep his hands in the dirt at Alemany Farm, and he still often writes and speaks about the value of sustainable agriculture. He has a degree in international relations from Georgetown University and a certificate in ecological horticulture from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC-Santa Cruz. He lives with his daughter, Lily Miel and partner, Nell, in Oakland, California.

Read more about Jason and his work at http://jasondovemark.com/index.html.