Reed McManus

摘要

On January 6, Sierra lost longtime senior editor Reed McManus. He was at the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City, preparing to demo the latest ski equipment, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 59 years old. Reed's career at Sierra spanned nearly 30 years, during which time he wrote hundreds of articles and blog posts, edited several generations of environmental writers, and helped shape the magazine with his blunt advice and keen wit. Joan Hamilton, Sierra's editor in chief from 1994 to 2007, recalls how "Reed hated alliterative headlines ('too easy') and any sort of writing filled with shoulds and musts-a genre he called 'eco-spinach.'" He preferred to focus on solutions, highlighting diversity in his Faces of Clean Energy series and the latest in electric vehicles in his annual EV Buyers Guide. (When test-driving a Tesla last year, he predictably "forgot" to pull his foot off the accelerator and found himself doing 102 miles per hour.).