Leslie Wolcott

Last 2 Capital Gains pieces

It was sad to say goodbye to Capital Gains, but we are off to new adventures in Orlando, Florida.

On Target Living

Okemos native Chris Johnson ran into a dilemma shortly after he graduated from college. After obtaining a business degree and discovering that working as a grocery delivery person was not satisfying, he returned to graduate school in nutrition while continuing to deliver Frito Lay products to grocery stores. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he started to see inconsistencies between what he was learning about nutrition and physiology and what he was seeing and delivering in grocery stores. He continued on both tracks, but the seeds of a new idea had been planted.  He knew that we needed to change our relationship with food. 

Feeding the Craving--Lansing's Food Trucks

You've probably heard rumors of a new kind of truck in town. But it's not a new design from one of the big three. These are big, roomy trucks with additions like blenders, stoves, and refrigerators. These are our newest food trucks, and they have arrived in Lansing just in time for a lovely summer. But they aren't the first food trucks in Lansing - not by a long shot.

Lansing Area Capital Gains articles

I write occasionally now for Lansing's Capital Gains.

I spoke with student Mona Ramouni about her experiences here in Lansing with her guide horse, Cali:

A Miniature Guide Horse in Lansing

I interviewed CAP: the group Capital Area Paranormal, right here in Lansing. Read the article here:
Capital Area Paranormal

Capital Area Paranormal's teams of six investigators are ready and willing to come conduct an investigation of your house, too . . . . But are you ready to see what they find?

Here's the first story I wrote for them, about a competition for college student entrepreneurs--their successes and their struggles..

Getting Comfortable With Failure

People don't like to talk about failure. In fact, whenever I said “failure” during the course of writing this story, people changed the subject. Over and over again. Walked away. Didn't answer questions.  

We're scared of the idea, and scared of the word.

And here's the second, about book clubs new and old in the Lansing area:

Book Clubs and Brew Pubs

These aren’t your ordinary book clubs, though. From meeting in bars to reading about vampires, these are groups of friends or soon-to-be friends who get together to socialize, eat, drink and discuss some reading along the way.

Academic and Professional Writing

Here are a couple of other pieces I've written in various jobs over the years.

This is a piece I collaborated on about forest fire control in Florida. The project I was a part of examined the best ways to control different hazardous fuels (in this case hazardous means likely to catch fire, and fuels are the things that burn) in Florida.

You can click below on the title to read the article from the Southern Journal of Applied Forestry.

A Survey of Land Managers on Wildland Hazardous Fuels Issues in Florida: A Technical Note

I also authored a short piece about the author and environmental writer Leslie Marmon Silko in this book:

Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 

I really enjoy writing in different genres and to different specifications. So if you have a writing or web writing project that you're not sure about, let me know and I'll be happy to give it a try!

For Fun: Food Fights

You've seen Julie and Julia... but have you seen a southerner talk about bbq?

You can find my food blogging over at Tumblr: BBQ, LeslieSue, and YOU!

Article in Lansing's New Citizens Press

I wrote an piece in Lansing's The New Citizen's Press about alternatives to coal power and the future of coal power here in Lansing.

It begins:
How clean is the air that you breathe? How many industrial pollutants are released into the air and water in or near your neighborhood?

Some residents of a Chicago neighborhood were so worried about their air quality that they created an organization to fight the disproportionate amount of pollution they felt they were subject to. Though the group originally coalesced to investigate lead pollution from a brass smelting plant, the neighborhood is also home to a power generating station. Members of PERRO, the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, work to simultaneously educate community members about sources of pollution in the area, and  to try to reduce the amounts of pollution from industrial sources in their community all without reducing business opportunities in the area.

Read the rest of the article here: Don't Inhale Until Your Read This

Green Daily Posts

I wrote for just over a year at the national green blog Green Daily.

You can find a full listing of my articles by following this link:

http://www.greendaily.com/bloggers/leslie-wolcott/

Some of my recent favorites include:

EPA Protects Environment

Workin' On a Coal Mine

Aliens Among Us

Green Scales

Read my independent blog about environmental justice at www.greenscales.org

City Pulse Articles

Click on the links below to view the web versions of articles I've written for the Lansing City Pulse in Lansing, Michigan.

Saving Our Water  (reprint)

Teahouse Offers Cure for Dietary Depression

Unhealthy Michigan

Lansing's A Drag

Independent Filmmaker to Screen Plea for Darfur in Lansing

Full Listing of articles I've written at City Pulse