Sean has been published in magazines including Saltscapes, Verge, National Observer, New Internationalist, Atlantic Co-operator, and Outpost, and won a Canadian National Magazine Award. He also writes for Climate Stories Atlantic.
Selected Non-Fiction & Travel Writing
A Squid Ink Sky: Land, Happiness, and Good Kava in Vanuatu
A journey to a nation where land ownership is based on the extended family rather than the individual. Read the story…
The Whitewashed Stone: Gold and Ghosts on Ghana’s Cape Coast
A visit to a 360-year-old fortress that is at the centre of a challenging history we all share. Read the story…
A Passive Approach to Climate Change
A historic house in Halifax is renovated with climate as the foundation. Read the story…
Renovating Opportunities in Toronto
CLEAResult Canada is working with a Toronto social enterprise to help transform energy efficiency retrofits into a pathway out poverty. Read the story…
The Canadian Diner: Fried, Tried, and True
Slide into a vinyl booth and taste the history of the classic greasy spoon. Read the story…
A Home Warm Enough for People and Pets (lots of pets)
A free energy efficiency program helps a couple in an emotionally warm but physically cold home. Read the story…
Inheriting a Better Future in Cameroon
Learn about an initiative to turn widows’ rites into widows’ rights. Read the story…
Where Credit is Due: Banking on Women in Ghana
Is microcredit a panacea to poverty, or just another burden for women in West Africa? Read the story…
Essays
“It’s too late to stop climate change. We should focus on preparing for the worst,” is something I often hear…it’s something I ask myself even more. Read more…
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I didn’t want to be a climate activist
There are people like me working in the climate space who wish they weren’t, preferring that the problems no longer existed and they could get back on their original path. Read more…
Like many of us, I get into my own head too much, and stay there, having the same conversations over and over. Appropriate then that the band playing on my turntable as I write this is Talking Heads, and specifically the song Once in a Lifetime. Read more…
Social media may be good for opining, but not as good for listening. Could more time in the 'analog world' help? Read more…
Thirty years after a volunteer posting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, I returned with my then 15-year-old son, dragging with us a huge hockey bag filled with books, toys and games for the preschool I once worked at. Read more…