Will Falk’s Life-Centered Writing

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...

How Dams Fall: Interview for The Rights of the Salish Sea Podcast

Jan 10, 2020 | How Dams Fall, Interviews

I was interview by Elisabeth Robson with Community Rights San Juan Islands for The Rights of the Salish Sea Podcast about my book How Dams Fall and rights of...

Rights for Lake Erie? Why Corporate Rights and Preemption Must Go

Dec 21, 2019 | Analysis, Essays

I wrote this with Sean Butler. Rights of nature advocates often repeat the words, “The structure of the legal system makes meaningful environmental protection illegal.” It’s a bold claim, but for most people it’s too vague to mean anything. Most folks (understandably)...

How Dams Fall: Interview with Derrick Jensen

Nov 24, 2019 | How Dams Fall, Interviews

Derrick Jensen interviewed me about my book How Dams Fall for his weekly podcast/radio show Resistance...