About
Founding Editor
Stefanie Olsen is a San Francisco-based journalist. She has written about technology, science and the Internet for more than 10 years, and has worked at CNET News.com for the past eight. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Business Week and San Francisco Magazine, among other news outlets. She has won various journalism awards for feature writing, in-depth analysis and breaking news; and she was featured in Random House’s Best Business Stories of the Year, 2003.
Ms. Olsen is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she got her first taste of environmental and social consciousness in Cathy Comstock’s humanities class on the life of Gandhi.
Contributing Writer
Kim Girard has been writing for 20 years, covering everything from feisty local Massachusetts politics to Silicon Valley during the tech boom to venture capital during the bust. Her work has been published in the Middlesex News, Hartford Courant, CNET, Business 2.0, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Fast Company and Red Herring. She grew up composting and heating with wood stoves and is struggling to be green again with a 4-year-old in the city.
Contributing Writer
Alorie Gilbert is a freelance journalist based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Contributing Writer
Claudia Graziano is a freelance writer, editor, and green products enthusiast. While most of her work is published in the impersonal realm of Corporate America, she occasionally publishes elsewhere, including Wired, Edutopia, Renewable Energy Access, and SOMA Literary Review. She is the editor of the nonfiction book, Biodiesel America, and author of Meerkat’s Safari, an illustrated children’s book. Her obsessions include Rudolf Diesel, hula hoop dancing, and small animals. After spending 14 years in San Francisco, Claudia now lives in Santa Cruz.