Will Falk’s Life-Centered Writing

Thacker Pass Thoughts #1: Joe Biden is No Friend of the Natural World

Jan 20, 2021 | Analysis, Essays, Thacker Pass

Thoughts from Thacker Pass #1: Joe Biden is No Friend of the Natural World – And, He’s No Friend of Ours, Either.The sun rose on this Inauguration Day over a chilly Thacker Pass. Frost colored the sagebrush silver. The ground was frozen hard. And, I woke to the...

Interview About Thacker Pass on Voices for Nature and Peace Podcast

Jan 19, 2021 | Interviews, Thacker Pass

I joined Kollibri terre Sonnenblume on his excellent, biophilic podcast Voices for Nature and Peace. I highly recommend following Kollibri’s...

Why I Protect Thacker Pass

Jan 18, 2021 | Essays, Thacker Pass

On Friday, January 15, 2021, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) determined that Lithium Americas Corp.’s proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada would comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and issued the necessary Record of Decision....

Lessons from a Mangy Coyote: Why Anticoagulant Rodenticides Must Go

Jan 17, 2021 | Analysis, Essays

This piece was commissioned by Prairie Protection Colorado, a fantastic grass roots nonprofit fighting ecocide on Colorado’s Front Range. The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions,...

Decolonizing the Law: Panel Conversation with CELDF

Oct 1, 2020 | Analysis, Interviews

I participated in a conversation about rights of Nature and decolonizing American law with other lawyers from the Community Environmental Legal Defense...

The Ohio River Speaks: Interviewed by Derrick Jensen

Sep 21, 2020 | Analysis, Interviews

Derrick Jensen interviewed me about my Ohio River writing for his program “Resistance...

Conversation with Max Wilbert for his podcast The Green Flame

Jul 16, 2020 | Analysis, Interviews

I joined Max Wilbert on his excellent podcast The Green Flame to discuss my Ohio River project – The Ohio River Speaks. My part starts at...

The Unsustainability of Civilization Itself

Jun 15, 2020 | Analysis, Interviews

This is an interview I did with Kollibri terre Sonnenblume for his Voices for Nature & Peace Podcast. We talked about the problem of civilization, about depression as a gateway to understanding that, and about the profound cultural changes required for collective,...

Viral Poetry

Apr 18, 2020 | Poetry

Viral Poetry for the coronavirus and all those affected Sometimes Life speaks through poets. Sometimes Life speaks through dreams, through flowing water, through chilly stars on a clear winter night, through the imperfect reconstruction of experienceour memories...

Lake Erie Bill of Rights: Time for Direct Action

Jan 24, 2020 | Analysis, Essays

Thanks to the Deep Green Resistance News Service where this piece first appeared. On Tuesday, January 28, at 10 AM, a hearing will be held in the United States District Courthouse in Toledo, OH in the case Drewes Farms Partnership v. City of Toledo. At stake in this...