Dec 9, 2022The Paradigm Shift From Wildlife Conservation to Ecological CivilizationThere is something fatally wrong with the way humans have gone about protecting our home planet over the last several decades. This flawed approach is reflected in the distressing, exponential decline in the diversity of plants and animals that defines our notions of life on planet Earth, featuring prominently in…Biodiversity8 min readBiodiversity8 min read
Nov 5, 2022Can Humans Re-Learn to Cohabit with Wildlife?Compassionate Conservation in the Wildlife Coexistence Movement If you follow the news at all, you’ve no doubt heard about the latest data on global wildlife populations — they’re down 70% on average over just the last 50 years. The biodiversity crisis is just as alarming as the climate crisis. …Wildlife13 min readWildlife13 min read
Oct 8, 2022Becoming Indigenous to Earthby Panpsychologist Zhiwa Woodbury, M.A., J.D. “All of us are indigenous members of Earth Community equally — there is no higher placement of a master over another — and it is high time for all of us to become Indigenous again.” ~ Indian philosopher and physicist Dr. Vandana Shiva (This…Climate Change20 min readClimate Change20 min read
Aug 22, 2022The Perceived “Threat” of Ecological Restoration on Public RangelandsSomething quite remarkable is happening here in Montana, and thus far it has gotten little notice. It could end up having widespread implications for our twin existential crises: global heating and biodiversity. Over strenuous objection from the powerful cattle industry, the federal Bureau of Lands Management (a.k.a., the other “BLM”)…Climate Action7 min readClimate Action7 min read
Jun 29, 2022THE VICIOUS & SEDITIOUS DONCassidy Hutchinson is the opposite of Monica Lewinsky — incredibly professional, poised, and undistracted in her service to her idealistic notion of America — but like Clinton’s young, starstruck lady in the blue dress, Cassidy Hutchinson brought down the former most powerful man in the world yesterday. …January 6 20215 min readJanuary 6 20215 min read
May 27, 2022Roe v. Wade Versus Weapons of War: Who Are The Baby Killers Now?In 1994, long before mass shootings became endemic, Congress banned semi-automatic assault rifles. Hard to believe, isn’t it? We mostly agreed back then that it was crazy to treat modern-day, hi-tech weapons of war the same way we have always treated pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles. The “Violent Crime Control…Abortion4 min readAbortion4 min read
May 9, 2022WHY I AM CHOOSING TO SERVE AMERICA’S LAST WILD BUFFALO“The buffalo gave us everything we needed. Without it we were nothing.” ~ John Fire Lame Deer After a career as an eco-defense lawyer, I walked away from my profession and the larger climate movement in 2012. I was intent on diagnosing the pervasive pathology of our culture that seemed…Climate Change10 min readClimate Change10 min read
Apr 3, 2022The Age of Protest is Over: We Can Organize Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis.In the dismal wake of COP26 Glasgow, which was little more than an exercise in global gaslighting by politicians and their corporate sponsors, Dr. Bruce C. Glavovic raised an important question: why continue to issue scientific reports on the climate at this point? It would be wise for climate activists…Climate Action8 min readClimate Action8 min read
Feb 26, 2022Faith in the Time of Climate ChaosTraumas piled atop traumas… As people break free from the conditioning of a disembodied culture that separates us from the natural world, we feel the depth of the grievous wounding that our un-mindful consumption and unconscionable production is inflicting on Mother Earth. As we drop from the prison of our heads into the broke-open…Climate Crisis11 min readClimate Crisis11 min read
Dec 6, 2021WHAT IF WE ARE ALL WE’VE GOT?“Any viable worldview must contain many worldviews, and it must arise from within us and between us… What is called for is the capacity to find and support the growing movement of people who think and feel across frames and contexts at scale — a process that entails an encounter…Climate Change16 min readClimate Change16 min read
