Selected Articles

Joel Salatin: How to Eat Animals and Respect Them, Too, YES! Magazine, Spring 2011
America's most beloved farmer on the ethics of meat.

How Happy Was Your Meal?, YES! Magazine, Spring 2011
Autistic scientist Temple Grandin says she understands how animals think. So I asked her, does organic farming mean happier cows?

Haiti: Resilience or Interference?, YES! Magazine, online, 24 March 2011
Aristide’s return to Haiti is a chance to ask what role the U.S. will play in the nation’s future.

Rocking The Cynical World, YES! Magazine, Winter 2011
Why iconic political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg confronts fascists, Tea Parties, Glenn Beck–and his own fans.

Cancún: Changing the Climate Conversation, YES! Magazine, online, 14 December 2010
Seven years ago, activists in Cancún started a powerful international movement. How can we have the same impact?

Maude Barlow: Read Me My Environmental Rights, YES! Magazine, online, 3 December 2010
What if a healthy environment were a human right?

From Vacant City Lot to Food on the Table, YES! Magazine, Fall 2010
People rarely get a say in what happens to land when their city falls apart. But in the last five years, some Richmonders have taken matters into their own hands—by planting gardens.

Songs to End Racism, YES! Magazine, Spring 2010
A little-known album by pop star Brett Dennen is still changing lives, teaching kids to stand up to intolerance.

What Do You Say to a Screaming Bigot?, YES! Magazine, Spring 2010
How one woman faces the radio shock jocks.

James Hansen: Good Riddance, Copenhagen. Time for Better Ideas, YES! Magazine, online, 22 December 2009
The world's best-known climate scientist never expected the Copenhagen climate meeting to amount to much. Its failure is an opportunity to revisit our policies on climate change, he says.

Kumi Naidoo on How We'll Win at Copenhagen, YES! Magazine, online, 11 December 2009
The Greenpeace leader and former anti-apartheid organizer describes how people power sought to transform the climate negotiations.

One Man's Trash Is Kuros Zahedi's Art, YES! Magazine, online, 11 September 2009
Artist turns one man's yearlong trash-collection experiment into a hopeful vision.

Restoring the Range: Can Beef Be Earth Friendly?, YES! Magazine, Spring 2009
Beef production is a big contributor to climate change. A sixth-generation South Dakota rancher hopes sustainable grazing can change that.

Life Reclaimed, YES! Magazine, Winter 2009
Jarid Manos found his way out of crime, depression, and addiction by fighting for prairies and buffalo on the Great Plains.

Without a Country, The Sun Magazine, November 2008
On any given day, Pramila Jayapal might face off against an anti-immigration pundit on talk radio, speak to a crowd of conservative rural Okalahomans, or listen to the plight of Mexican farmworkers (an excerpt; full article available in print).

Welcoming Strangers to the Table, YES! Magazine, Fall 2008
A San Francisco church learns to welcome strangers when journalist Sara Miles starts a radical food pantry.

Mayors Stand Up: Cities Lead Where Feds Fear to Tread, YES! Magazine, Spring 2008
In the vacuum left by federal inaction on climate change, social movements have launched in unexpected places—including city hall.

Pandora's Icebox: Climate's Vicious Cycles, YES! Magazine, Spring 2008
Scientists have learned that a little atmospheric temperature rise can unlock vicious feedback loops that speed global warming.

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Daily Score, Sightline Institute, 4 April 2007
The good news on climate is local: Bill McKibben and the Step It Up climate action movement.

Dina's Place, High Country News, 11 December 2006
A troubled child on a South Dakota reservation finds strength and safety in nature.

Running with the Wind, The Daily Score, Sightline Institute, 19 July 2006
Winona LaDuke says native people can lead the world in developing renewable energy.

Hiking Legends, Washington Trails Magazine, October 2005
Patrick Goldsworthy and Ruth Ittner led the way on protecting national parks and trails.

The Roadless Traveled, Washington Trails Magazine, July 2005
Review of A People's History of Wilderness.

Review of Old Main: Small Colleges in Twenty-First Century America by Sam Schuman,
Facilities Manager (Magazine of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers), November/December 2005

Public Defenders (Of the Wild), Washington Trails Magazine, October 2004
Review of Defending Wild Washington: A Citizen's Action Guide.

Awakening to the Physical World: Ideological Collapse and Ecofeminist Resistance in Vineland, Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins, Edited by Nirran Abbas, 2003, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
An academic essay in an anthology that explores how Thomas Pynchon's work critique's American cultural narrative.