“Canada’s go to guy for dolphins, whales and trees” (The National Post) Mark is,  “one of Canada’s greenest writers.” (The Beach) His award-winning film, The Green Chain, (which he wrote, directed and produced) is playing on TMN and Movie Central. His new book -- The Green Chain -- Nothing is Ever Clear Cut was just released by Heritage House. The book collects some of his best interviews dealing with forestry issues and the environment from his Green Chain podcast series for Canada’s top on-line -- The Tyee. Here’s the series on iTunes.  His gold medal-winning short eco-comedy film, The Green Film is playing festivals around the world. His new eco-comedy CD -- Greenpieces -- featuring award-winning comedy duo, Local Anxiety, is being released in December.

Mark was the recipient of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his best-selling comic memoir Never Shoot a Stampede Queen -- Adventures of a Rookie Reporter.

Mark was a story editor and writer for the Lifetime TV series  Blood Ties. He has also written for The Collector, Psi Factor, the CBC documentary series Life and Times and a lot of very cool cartoons and kid’s shows including - ReBoot; Transformers: Beast Wars, Ace Lightning, Class of the Titans, Pucca, Stickin’ Around and YTV’s new hit series. RollBots. A lifelong comic book fan, he has also written scripts for an hour long live action drama in development with No Equal Entertainment, based on the Marvel comic superhero, Moon Knight.

An award-winning journalist, Mark has written for such publications as Time Magazine, Maclean’s and The Utne Reader and he’s a regular contributor to The Georgia Straight and The Tyee.