Honest Hearts Make Honest Action
I was probably twelve years old. My grandfather, a former businessman and Mormon bishop in Los Angeles, had heard of a mountain meadow...
Breathing Life, Breathing Stories
“For your lungs, a year in New York is like smoking a pack a day.” It was 1970, and I was four years old, and this didn’t really make...
Air Pollution
Image text: "Air pollution. I feel that everyone is getting sick because of the air pollution but the air is sick too. My little sister...
Leave It to the Kids
My dad always took my brothers and me for walks in the warm and humid evenings when we were young. In between laughter, he told me how I...
The Right Story
I wish I had the right story to tell you. If I did, every word of it would sound like your mother’s steady breathing. It would sound like...
Scenic Value Assessment
It’s an abnormally hot date for late May, and I find myself in the Vernal, Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office asking the guy...
Indigeneity and Identity: The Complexities Behind COP
Those in the climate movement have likely heard of the Conference of the Parties (COP), a convening of parties to the UN Framework...