What do we ourselves mean when we’ve come back from a camping trip, or from a reunion of old friends,…
The easiest thing to forget when we inadvertently talk as if conservation or restoration are merely concepts or “constructions” is…
Again, from Desert Legends, written more than two decades ago: “I have joined the ranks of a motley crew of…
I don’t quite remember what motivated me, in 1994, to end a book entitled Desert Legends with these words: “To…
The old preservationist paradigm of conservation—one still held by esteemed ecologists like E.O. Wilson—is that governments and non-profits should lock…
(For W.S. Merwin) Our fate is that we wish to translate What divers plants upon this earth Have been struggling…
This last Sabbath, I had the chance to visit poet W.S Merwin and his wife Paula in their palm forest…
At the Indigenous Crop Biodiversity Festival on Maui, I was reminded by taro and kava farmer Jerry Konanui, that certain…
Around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, many environmentalists assumed that minority peoples living in impoverished urban…
This last week, I heard Richard Rohr tell the Living School, “The greatest affliction affecting humanity right now is our…