Joe is a nature lover, an amateur field naturalist, and a conservationist. He lives on a large island in the North Atlantic Ocean that an infinitesimal proportion of the Earth's beings call Great Britain. His debut ecology book – 'Thirteen Paces by Four: Backyard Biophilia and the Emerging Earth Ethic' – was published in January 2021. He also writes eco-fiction under the pen name Dewey Dabbar.