Imagine one thoughtful step at a time taken by millions of people. We imagine it, on a local level, because we know that our neighbors in Marin pretty much share our attitude -- we want to do what's right by this incredible place we call home, where nearly 85 percent of the land is basically split 50-50 between open space and acreage for growing organic food; for pasture for raising healthy livestock and happy cows; for olive orchards for oil and vineyards for wine; for reservoirs that quench our thirst and water our gardens; for hiking, biking, and horse trails that lead us to redwood groves and over grassy hills into forests and along creeks where salmon spawn. For trails that take us to the very edge of the North American continent.
Being green, living sustainably — they're both about making conscious choices to protect what we have, not degrade it. From there, that choice can take on a life of its own.
TerraMarin's goal, as a local guide and resource, is to make those clean, and healthier, choices easier by focusing our coverage only on green and sustainable topics, which is about the easiest job in the county, because in Marin, the grass is already a bit greener. All we hope to do is deepen the hue by celebrating what's being done locally on behalf of the planet.
At the heart of our community coverage: inspiration by example.
Karen Peterson, Editor
A Little Bit About Us
Editor and Publisher: Karen Peterson
San Anselmo resident Karen Peterson is a former newspaper journalist, Web journalist and corporate communications professional. She was on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade and, earlier in her career, worked at numerous Marin newspapers, including the Independent Journal and the Point Reyes Light, where she participated in its 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series on Synanon. Karen left newspapers in 1995 to join the launch staff of Macworld Online, one of the first successful Web-based magazines, and later, driven by her interest in technology, worked with Hewlett-Packard and Genencor International, a biotech company, and wrote about the solar photovoltaic and semiconductor industries for Applied Materials, Inc.
Before launching TerraMarin, Karen published a daily newswire on the clean-tech industry, distributed by Factiva, the Dow Jones business information service. A long-time community volunteer, she has served on the San Anselmo Historical Commission and the Town's Quality of Life Commission.
Photography: Jocelyn Knight
Jocelyn Knight is a native of Marin who has spent her adult life capturing the natural beauty of the county she calls home. A professional portrait photographer, she founded Jocelyn Knight Photography in the early 1980s. Well-known throughout the county and in San Francisco for her family portraits and wedding photography, she began her photojournalism career at the Tiburon Ark.
As a freelance photographer, Jocelyn's work has been featured in the Marin Independent Journal and the book, "Tails of Devotion." Her art prints have been exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, the Linda Penzur Gallery in San Anselmo and the Tiburon-Belvedere Library. Jocelyn lives in Corte Madera with her husband and is the mother of two. To view Jocelyn's photographs, visit www.jocelynknight.com.
Magazine and Web Design: Visual Strategies
Visual Strategies is an award-winning graphic design firm specializing in marketing and editorial design for print and interactive media. Based in San Francisco since 1989, they produce publications and marketing materials for corporations, major media, educational and non-profit groups, and the entertainment industry. John Sullivan and Dennis Gallagher are the principals of Visual Strategies. They both have more than 25 years' experience as art directors and designers.
Clients include Autodesk, Chronicle Books, Fireman's Fund, the Nature Conservancy, the University of California, Berkeley, the New York Times, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the San Francisco Chronicle and Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
Copy Editor: Elissa Rabellino
A longtime champion of the environmental movement, Sausalito resident and California native Elissa Rabellino has more than 25 years' experience editing and proofreading for newspapers, books, magazines, Web sites, corporate marketing and PR departments, and nonprofit association publications.
Before starting her own editing business, Style in Site, Elissa worked at the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Macworld magazine.
Today her editing clients include the County of Marin (she copyedited the current edition of the Marin Countywide Plan), Stanford Medical Center, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Weldon Owen, Sunset Books, Peachpit Press, and San Francisco magazine. She also creates style guides for publications and Web sites. Contact Elissa at elissa@styleinsites.com.
