nonfiction

dog(ma)

“Mostly, I want a dog, and the kind of life where I can go on a lot of walks with the dog.” This is a sentence pulled from my career...

Born in the USA

(image source) *** I’m ten years old, in the back of the car. Dad is driving, my sister is next to me. The radio is on, and a song...

Land Sovereignty and the Decolonization of Food and Agriculture in the USA

This was an assignment for my environmental governance class, to reimagine current environmental policy in a new way. I felt particularly...

Going Local: place-based ecology as an opportunity for activism

I was raised in the Rocky Mountains, hiking in fields of juniper and sage, with the long shadows of lodgepole pines painting my...

The Future in Fungi

This article was originally published on The YEARS Project website. THERE IS A WORLD OF DECOMPOSITION CHURNING UNDER OUR FEET, AND IT...

The Nitrogen Problem... Too Much of a Good Thing

When we think about global environmental issues, there’s a story that emerges. CO2 emissions, scaled up from the days of the industrial...

Queer Ecology

This article was originally published on The Years Project website The ways in which we consider nature are complex. They’re nuanced and...