Over the years, I’ve also contributed journalism to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Reason, Slate and YaleEnvironment360.

I’ve written or co-written books about baseball, TV sports, TV news, corporate social responsibility and how removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere can help solve the climate crisis.

I’ve done public speaking and moderating, notably as the creator and co-chair of Brainstorm Green, FORTUNE’s annual conference on business and the environment, which ran from 2008 through 2014.

My full-time gigs took me from the Paterson (N.J.) News (1974-1975) to the Hartford Courant (1976-1983), the Detroit News (1983-1987), the Detroit Free Press (1987-1996) and finally to FORTUNE (1996-2009). Since then, I’ve freelanced about a variety of topics. My current interests include tobacco policy, and in particular the ill-advised war against vaping, as well as psychedelics.

Personal stuff: Born in Paris, I grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. I’m a graduate of Yale, a long-distance runner (with 22 marathons behind me), a devoted fan of the Washington Nationals and a lover of the outdoors. I’m active in my synagogue, the Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, and I volunteer regularly at Martha’s Table. I’m a vegetarian.

These days, family is the most important thing to me. My daughter Sarah and her wife Amy Krosch, live in Ithaca, NY, with their son Max and daughter Dori, and my daughter Becca and her husband Eric Bacaj, live in Gaithersburg, MD, with their children Hudson, Sawyer and Everly. My grandkids are pretty much perfect, as best as I can tell. I live in Bethesda, MD.