They’re burning mad about climate change. Are you?
Essays
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
Think of pollution as trespassing
Why take the ‘harms’ approach? Try this instead.
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
Where can we say ‘Yes’ to oil and gas?
What we give up in so-called sacrifice zones.
Posted inArticles
Rants from the Hill: An Assay on Old Lang Syne Peak
Taking a right gude willie waught for the turning year.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Hunting for scorpions
Seeking one of Earth’s most ancient land invertebrates.
Posted inArticles
Remembering an environmental science pioneer
Theo Colborn uncovered effects of chemicals, like those used in fracking, on the human body.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
When neighbors spray herbicides next to your organic crop
Living together with local resentments in Northern California.
Posted inArticles
Rants from the Hill: Desert Insomnia
Living the not-so-quiet life in the rural West.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Solace at the end of Homer Spit
When I quit my job and joined a pilgrimage of heartbroken dreamers staggering toward Alaska.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
‘Poverty with a view,’ in the rearview
I spent my 20s in some of the most beautiful towns in the West.
Posted inArticles
Rants from the Hill: What’s Drier than David Sedaris?
The Ranter Defends Both Nevadans and Count Chocula.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
The lost navigator
Before Parkinson’s, my father never needed to consult a road map.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives and the outlaws
One of Charles Bowden’s last essays.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives and the outlaws
One of Charles Bowden’s last essays.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Adiós Charles Bowden
The writer passed away in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Aug. 30.
Posted inArticles
Rants from the Hill: How to Cuss in Western
When “Airin’ the Lungs” is registered at the swear jar.
Posted inArticles
KDNK speaks with HCN reporter John Calderazzo
Scientists who study climate change can be remarkably bad at communicating findings.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Teaching aliens to talk
How global warming made me change my life.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
A new century with carnivores
Learning to see predators as companions, not competition.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
How my Californian father adapted to Utah
He found solace in growing fruit trees, but never quite made the Beehive state his home.