Essays , New Park City Witness , Park City New Park City Witness: How Do We Tell the Whole Truth? September 12, 2017 529 Views 0 Comment In Park City, the task is clear: Stop climate change, or the snow stops. Snowpack is the region’s freshwater supply …
Essays Fight Back: An Ecopsychological Understanding of Depression July 13, 2017 4253 Views 4 Comments I am an environmental activist. I have depression. To be an activist with depression places me squarely in an irreconcilable …
Interviews , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Interviewed by Jennifer Murnan for KGNU, Boulder June 27, 2017 560 Views 0 Comment I was interviewed by Jennifer Murnan about Pinyon-Juniper Forests for KGNU, Boulder’s Morning Magazine Program. The interview originally aired on Tuesday, …
Essays , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Pinyon-Juniper Deforestation, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability June 10, 2017 2004 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 Park City, Depression, and The Compulsion to Write June 10, 2017 1172 Views 0 Comment Three coincidences converge to make me wonder if I am crazy: I live in Park City, Utah. I live with …
Analysis , Essays Park City is Still Damned: What Needs to Be Done May 08, 2017 706 Views 0 Comment In my essay, “Park City is Damned: A Case Study in Civilization,” I described the vicious cycle Park City, Utah …
Analysis , Essays Park City is Damned: A Case Study in Civilization April 03, 2017 1428 Views 2 Comments A Note to My Readers: It has not been easy to write this essay and I am scared to see …
Analysis , Essays Waiting for Death: Ecopsychology as Human Supremacism February 21, 2017 1275 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 The Destruction of Experience: How Ecopsychology Has Failed January 16, 2017 1219 Views 0 Comment I do not remember the first time I saw my mother’s face, though I know she remembers the first time …
Analysis , Essays , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Layla and the Owl’s Eyes: Ecopsychology and Being Human December 20, 2016 1196 Views 1 Comment Recently walking up Main Street in Park City, Utah, I saw in the Visitor’s Center doorway what looked like a …
Essays , Unist'ot'en Camp Change the World, Change Yourself January 22, 2015 616 Views 0 Comment Friends and family tell me I too often focus on the negative. My doctors and therapists have told me me …
Essays , New Park City Witness , Park City New Park City Witness: The Problems With “Open Space” September 12, 2017 1383 Views 0 Comment Before murdering millions during the Holocaust, the Nazis referred to Jews as rats. After murdering 17 people and lobotomizing some …
Essays , Mauna Kea Protecting Mauna Kea: Vocabulary for Haoles June 18, 2015 641 Views 0 Comment I write these words from the floor of a warm corner of the men’s restroom at the Mauna Kea visitor …
Poetry Good Friday Prayer April 03, 2015 590 Views 0 Comment a late snow in early spring and winter’s resurrection has driven me west again finding no warmth, I keep moving …
Analysis , Colorado River , Essays Time to Escalate?: First-Ever Rights of Nature Lawsuit Dismissed December 14, 2017 829 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 …
Essays , Mauna Kea Protecting Mauna Kea: History For Haoles April 29, 2015 442 Views 0 Comment In the first essay of my Protecting Mauna Kea series, I made a mistake. I wrongfully described the ongoing, illegal …
Essays , Unist'ot'en Camp Giving Up on Home and Heading to the Unist’ot’en Camp May 01, 2014 574 Views 0 Comment I have given up on the notion that I will ever get home. In many ways, I have always been …
Essays , Pinyon-Juniper Forests Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM’s False Claims to Virtue January 05, 2016 1009 Views 0 Comment Once I recovered from the shock I experienced witnessing the carnage produced by a Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) so-called …
Essays DIY Resistance: Fall in Love August 05, 2014 470 Views 0 Comment Three months ago, I packed up my 80-litre pack with my tent, sleeping bag, four t-shirts, two pairs of pants, …
Essays , New Park City Witness New Park City Witness: Why Criticize Park City? September 26, 2017 546 Views 0 Comment Author’s Note: A member of Park City’s city government recently asked me why I write about Park City when Park City …
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