Laird Townsend is the founder of Project Word. Previously, he was features editor at Orion magazine, which he helped earn the coveted Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence in 2004. From 1997 to 2003, he was editor of Terrain magazine, a Berkeley, California-based environmental news quarterly, where his writers won two Project Censored awards.
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