He now mainly writes for Rome-headquartered Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world’s sixth-largest global news agency. Stephen has been published in dozens of publications around the world, including New Scientist, The London Sunday Times, Maclean’s Magazine, Earth Island Journal, The Toronto Star, Wired News, Audubon, BBC Wildlife and Canadian Geographic. In 2008, he was a Green Party candidate in the federal election and appears poised to do so again in 2011.