Climate Action or Climate Change Fatigue?
Ice, Heat, Rain, Drought How can someone in the Inland Northwest not think about weather, the future of our valley, what the aquifer will look like in decades and the potential impacts of some scenario...
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Indigenous Activist Berta Cáceres Assassinated in Honduras
HONDURAS – At approximately 11:45pm last night, the General Coordinator of COPINH, Berta Caceres was assassinated in her hometown of La Esperanza, Intibuca. At least two individuals broke down the door...
View ArticleDeath In Honduras: The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
On February 28, Hillary Clinton told an audience from the pulpit of a Memphis church: ‘we need more love and kindness in America’. This was something she felt ‘from the bottom of my heart’. These...
View ArticleWeb of Life and Systems Thinking All Bound Up in Soil, Roots, Limbs, Canopies
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ― John Muir Tree Dialogues Talking trees with the typical Spokane (Washington) “tree surgeon/arboriculturalist” is like speaking to a...
View Article“No Comment” from an Unmarked Desert Grave
Cactus Ed is out there somewhere in the Cabeza Prieta Desert in Pima County, Arizona, his tough old carcass still decaying and decomposing inside that tattered blue sleeping bag. Becoming fertilizer...
View ArticleThe Devil Fossil Fuel Industry Has Us By the Short-hairs (and what are we...
A simple documentary premiere, in a small town north of Vancouver, WA, on the Columbia, a town called Kalama, near Longview, where millions of stripped logs from the Pacific Northwest’s forests are...
View ArticleThe Intersection of Politics and Spirituality in Addressing the Climate Crisis
It is now almost six months since the Paris climate deal was agreed—the first legally binding commitment on curbing carbon emissions by all 195 United Nations countries. Nearly 170 of these countries...
View ArticleA River for Fish, Kayaks, Swimmers
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. – Novelist Norman Maclean Many if not most of the people charged with protecting our river and/or discharging into our river have...
View ArticleThe Power to Create a New World
The catastrophic climate change is no longer a subject for argument, at least on a mainstream level within the science community. Yet, as temperatures continue to rise, American efforts to combat...
View ArticleTrump Faces Gnawing Problems in the Great White North
The shock election of Donald Trump has thrust Canada into one of the most perilous periods of its existence. Our relationship with the United States, upon which so much of our security and prosperity...
View ArticleRewilding America
It’s time for us as a people to come together, to form an understanding about our natural environment, and our connection to it. If we are to survive long into this century and beyond, our society will...
View ArticleThat Cancer, Humankind!
On May 27, 2017, I spent some time with my copy of the late (1927-2015) Eli Sagan’s At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State (1985), and this morning...
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Trump Follows Previous US Presidents Who Have Undermined Climate Action
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement follows the path of previous presidents who have undermined international climate agreements. We disagree with Trump, but...
View ArticleWeather Disrupters, Beetle Killers, Tide Changers: Dowsing for the Last...
Human Evolution of the Mind Is Like a Hind Teat on a Texas Bull… Here we are witnessing The Great Collective Amnesia of the Western World…. The great Forgetting, from the political crass class (total),...
View ArticleNot My Brother’s Reefer
Sometimes when I’m kneeling on the outermost rocks in my favorite cove in Big Sur, the spray hitting me in the face and the endlessly popping champagne stallions rearing up on both sides of the cliffs,...
View ArticleCapitalism and Its Discontents: What Are We Living For?
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism. — Max Horkheimer, from the essay “The Jews and Europe”, December 1939 Aren’t we all tired of capitalism?...
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Planetary Suicide
Every so often a nonfiction book comes along that, because of its objective, comprehensive coverage of a hot topic, should be carefully read with a highlighter in hand by everyone. That new book is...
View ArticleCalifornia’s North Coast Wine Industry: How “Sustainable” Is It?
Sonoma County Winegrowers bought an expensive, full-page, color ad, using tax dollars, in the July 12 daily Santa Rosa Press Democrat and in various weeklies, such as the North Bay Bohemian and Sonoma...
View ArticleBjørn Lomborg: Climate Change Asylum Seeker
It has been stated that Bjørn Lomborga Danish economic analyst who has moonlighted as an environmentalist – the self-touted sceptical sort – may be one of the first climate change asylum seekers, a...
View ArticleClimate Action or Climate Change Fatigue?
Ice, Heat, Rain, Drought How can someone in the Inland Northwest not think about weather, the future of our valley, what the aquifer will look like in decades and the potential impacts of some scenario...
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