The outdoors. Animal welfare. Sustainability. Supporting small businesses — especially the services and repair businesses that keep things running instead of landfilled. Less waste on this planet, full stop.
These threads run through everything on this site: TripOutside promotes human-powered, low-impact recreation and sends demand to small independent outfitters. Most of my business ideas are about helping service and repair businesses grow — because every repaired bike, appliance, and jacket is one less thing manufactured and one less thing in a landfill.
Organizations I put my own money behind, and why.
The largest nonprofit environmental law organization in the United States. Their motto says it all: “the Earth needs a good lawyer.” They take polluters and rollbacks to court — and win.
Funds grassroots street-animal rescue, spay/neuter, and animal welfare organizations across India, where a small donation goes remarkably far.
Combines science, law, and relentless advocacy to protect endangered species and the wild places they can't survive without.
Backs the underdogs of animal rescue: small, scrappy sanctuaries and rescue squads around the world that the big funders overlook.
Protects imperiled North American wildlife — wolves, grizzlies, sea otters — through policy, litigation, and on-the-ground conservation.