A compelling, clear narrative builds support for your cause.

Seth is available to help you at any stage of a communication project, from sketching out the creative brief, through drafting, editing, and final polishing. Whether providing a succinct review of a funding proposal or chronicling the results of a conference, Seth brings to bear his intimate familiarity with environmental issues, his long experience as a creator of engaging narratives, and his deft use of the English language to help your project reach a wider audience.

Examples:

Seth wrote Harbingers of Recovery: A first quarterly report to stakeholders as a 25-year retrospective on the results of the restoration efforts in northern California’s Mattole watershed, using before-and-after photos and spare language to describe the groups’ accomplishments. “Quarterly” refers to the quarter-century that had passed since restoration work began, and alludes to the long time horizon over which ecological healing will occur.

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Capturing the stories underlying a conference

When the Bonneville Environmental Foundation hosted a gathering for fourteen of its grantees, it hired Seth to attend and create a narrative that captured the themes which emerged from the presentations. Seth connected each of the panels to a different kind of relationship that was being cultivated by the foundation’s partners — relations with the ecosystem, with citizen-supporters, with neighboring partners, and within the organization itself — through four narratives published as a booklet by the Foundation.

Adding clarity to a book manuscript

Seth edited the manuscript of Peter Barnes’s book Capitalism 3.0 (Berrett-Koehler, 2006), and served as development editor for his 2014 book, With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay Enough.