Analysis , Interviews “Creating a Life-Centered Resistance Movement” Radio Interview for KPFA, Berkeley March 06, 2018 503 Views 1 Comment Jeffry Fawcett interviewed my good friend Max Wilbert and me about creating a life-centered resistance movement by any means necessary …
Colorado River , Essays Plastic Whales, Humpback Whales, and Babysitting in the Anthropocene March 01, 2018 248 Views 0 Comment Special Thanks to Whole Terrain where this piece first appeared. I was broke for Christmas. In September, I helped to …
Interviews Time to Escalate? 2nd Video Interview with National Community Rights Network January 06, 2018 305 Views 0 Comment The second interview I gave to the National Community Rights Network’s Dr. Tom Groover. This one happened after the lawsuit …
Analysis , Colorado River , Essays Time to Escalate?: First-Ever Rights of Nature Lawsuit Dismissed December 14, 2017 375 Views 0 Comment Our first-in-the-nation lawsuit seeking personhood for the Colorado River was dismissed. After the Colorado Attorney General filed a motion to …
Colorado River , Essays , Poetry Colorado River Dispatches 5-7 November 30, 2017 627 Views 0 Comment Colorado River Dispatch #5 (November 17, 2017): The River’s Ghost Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Alfred A. …
Colorado River Video Interview with National Community Rights Network on the Rights of Nature November 20, 2017 303 Views 0 Comment This is a comprehensive interview with the National Community Rights Network’s Dr. Tom Groover about the Colorado River lawsuit, confronting …
Colorado River , Essays , Poetry Colorado River Dispatches 1-4 November 10, 2017 695 Views 0 Comment #1 What Does the Colorado River Need? (October 25, 2017): When I agreed to serve as a “next friend” to …
Colorado River , Interviews Interview for KGNU Radio on the Colorado River Rights of Nature Lawsuit November 08, 2017 489 Views 0 Comment I was interviewed by KGNU’s Maeve Conran for the program “A Public Affair” about the Colorado River Rights of Nature …
Analysis , Essays Finally, an American Rights of Nature Movement November 02, 2017 934 Views 0 Comment This piece was originally published by Catalyst Magazine as “The ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement” If I asked you, “Which corporation …
Analysis , Essays The Rights of Nature and the Power(lessness) of Law October 19, 2017 320 Views 0 Comment This piece was originally published by the San Diego Free Press. In the war for social and environmental justice, even …
Essays Fight Back: An Ecopsychological Understanding of Depression July 13, 2017 3799 Views 4 Comments I am an environmental activist. I have depression. To be an activist with depression places me squarely in an irreconcilable …
Analysis , Essays The Ecopscychological Imperative to Dismantle Civilization November 23, 2016 2002 Views 3 Comments The fading roar of an ATV engine leaves silence in its wake. Birds, offended by the intrusion, refuse to sing. …
Essays , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Pinyon-Juniper Deforestation, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability June 10, 2017 1446 Views 3 Comments A windmill blade knocks the head off a Cooper’s hawk interrupting the late afternoon peace in Spring Valley. The blade …
Essays On Being Suicidal October 06, 2016 3028 Views 3 Comments “I am suicidal.” Three words only – but, the three most difficult words I’ve ever had to say. I did …
Direct Action Journal , Essays Direct Action Journal: The Wound of Perpetual Guilt June 08, 2016 1809 Views 2 Comments If fear is the mind killer, guilt is the heart killer. Experiencing guilt creates a wound. The wound is healed …
Analysis , Essays Why Does the Colorado River Need to Sue For Rights? September 26, 2017 5165 Views 2 Comments Note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the US was filed on September 25, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The …
Analysis , Essays Waiting for Death: Ecopsychology as Human Supremacism February 21, 2017 904 Views 2 Comments So many indigenous people have told me that the levels of sustainability their traditional cultures achieved prior to the arrival …
Analysis , Essays Park City is Damned: A Case Study in Civilization April 03, 2017 856 Views 2 Comments A Note to My Readers: It has not been easy to write this essay and I am scared to see …
Essays , Mauna Kea , Poetry Between Here and Home November 08, 2015 759 Views 2 Comments Recently, I’ve read about the devastating fires in Indonesia. Now, the destruction itself is horrific, but I am also deeply …
Essays Returning From Darkness: National Suicide Prevention Month September 28, 2015 771 Views 1 Comment I am an attempted suicide survivor. I tried to kill myself twice – once in April, 2013 and again in …
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