Mary Catherine O'Connor is a seasoned freelance writer who covers topics ranging from environmental sustainability to adventure sports to business technology, for leading publications including Outside, Fast Company, Wired.com, Entrepreneur, Earth2Tech, The Bold Italic and GreenBiz Group. She has collected dispatches from climbers ascending Everest, interviewed some of the world's most accomplished athletes, technologists and entrepreneurs, and written numerous articles about the intersection of business, technology and sustainability.
Her recent work includes an Outside Online story about public artist Christo and his effort to build a new art installation in Colorado. And a critical look at bioplastics, which appears in Waste Age and Earth Island Journal.
She regularly contributes to the Smart Planet blog Decoding Design, covering design and architecture. She also pens biweekly feature stories about the U.S. electric vehicle industry for U.K.-based EV Update. Check out her blog on Outside's website: The Good Route. She also blogs for TriplePundit.com, where she writes about triple-bottom-line businesses, and for Earth Island Journal's blog, Environmentalist.Contact Mary Catherine at mc@mcoconnor.com or 415.861.9001.