Items by Jennifer Sahn

How the West reaps collective good fortune
How the West reaps collective good fortune
What results when caring for others is prioritized.
Practice vigilance
Practice vigilance
What recreation looks like in the age of wildfire.
It’s all about mutual care
It’s all about mutual care
What’s needed in times of injustice?
We object
We object
Our future is worth fighting for.
Lesson from a great blue heron
Lesson from a great blue heron
Adaptation is key to a coastal future.
Too hot to handle
Too hot to handle
The dangerously hot future is here. How will we respond?
A culture of connectivity
A culture of connectivity
The work ahead will require more collaboration and less divisiveness.
How we know what we know about the past
How we know what we know about the past
The collected and preserved can give us a window into history.
Let there be monarchs
Let there be monarchs
Monarch butterfly numbers in California ticked up this winter, but no one is calling it a recovery.
Our intersectional future
Our intersectional future
How to preserve what we love about the West in a way that is fair to all cultures and stakeholders, and that doesn’t leave anyone behind.
Notes to self
Notes to self
Setting priorities for the year ahead.
Loving the world despite everything
Loving the world despite everything
Notes on resilience in the face of disruption.
On being grateful
On being grateful
Food justice in a time of thanksgiving.
What we need to live well in the West
What we need to live well in the West
Some notes on a pandemic-tainted reality.
The new animal voyeurism
The new animal voyeurism
Captured on film but still losing habitat.
Extreme heat is here to stay
Extreme heat is here to stay
How will we respond?
We are water
We are water
With drought being the new normal, how are we to live?
Keeping up with the changing West
Keeping up with the changing West
Now more than ever, our issues are intersectional and our fates are intertwined.
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