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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my artisanally-crafted, fair trade, gluten-free website! I am a postdoctoral associate at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and an incoming assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences at Oberlin College; also, I am reluctant to resort to black magic. Be aware that this website is very large, and some of it is randomly generated. For the full experience, reload a bunch of times and navigate as follows:
Date: 25 March 2026 at 4pm CET
Location: Campus Luigi Einaudi | Univerisità di Torino
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book with Dario Padovan in Turin.
Date: 27 March 2026 at 6pm CET
Location: Castello Cantelmo
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book with Rewilding Apennines in the Castello Cantelmo in Abruzzo.
Date: 28 March 2026 at 3pm CET
Location: Piano Terra: Via Federico Confalonieri, 1, 20124 Milano
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book with Andrea Fumagalli, Gianluca Pozzoni, and Elisabetta Corrà at Piano Terra in Milan.
Additional events, future and past, are available on my events page.
You can learn more about my research on the projects page, or you can read through all of our scientific papers and presentations on their respective pages.
In this article, I worked with historian Troy Vettese and architect Filip Mesko to discuss how eco-socialist planning can create a just and sustainable society. We argue that the problem of land scarcity, long a topic of both classical political economy and architecture, is an opportunity to erode the separation of city and country. We consider the intellectual history of the town-country divide and how the category of wilderness and the practice of rewilding can break this binary. The illustration is by Lukas Eigler-Harding and Ariel Noltimier-Strauss and is entitled Half-Earth Diptych (2021).
Vettese, T.G.W, Pendergrass, D. C., and Mesko, F. (2022). "Town, Country, and Wilderness: Designing the Half-Earth." Architectural Design. 92(1), 112–119. doi:10.1002/ad.2780 | Read it here.
Read more of my writing here.
15 June 2022 | Listen here
My co-author Troy Vettese and I spoke with Grace Blakeley on the World to Win podcast, from Tribune Magazine, about our book Half-Earth Socialism.
Additional interviews and media are available on my interviews page.
CHEEREIO is a tool that uses observations of pollutants in the atmosphere, measured from satellites or surface stations, to correct supercomputer models that simulate the Earth. Powerful use cases for CHEEREIO include tracking pollution back to its source, even if there are no local observations on the ground, and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions in near-real-time. Read more on my projects page or the offical CHEEREIO site.