The Intersection of Equity, the Outdoors, Anti-Racism, and “The Run”
It took some time to locate and then articulate my relationship with the environment.
How does a...
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The Universal Right to a Healthy Environment
What does it mean to be undocumented in the United States, to live in fear of loved ones being depo...
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Recovering From a Derecho
My ears perked up hearing my teen children express their despair due to the climate crisis.
This...
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Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in a Snowstorm
Longer ago than I care to admit, I was leaving school via a city bus in Chicago.
Heavy, dense sn...
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I Thank the Trees Around Me
When I was 14, I got my first job through Step-up.
I remember the person I used to be before tha...
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My, Reintroduction to The Sun
In 2014, I was experiencing a lot of change and transformation from "who I was to who I wanted to b...
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A Road and A Wall
We can’t control how we enter this world. We can’t choose where we are born, or who births us.
A...
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all my relations
My story begins on the banks of the Mississippi River, when I would walk a narrow web of dirt paths...
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This Blue Marble is for You
I gingerly held the blue glass ball in my palm, noticing the point where sunlight cast a tiny blue-...
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Reclaiming Food as Medicine
I am a descendent of the Mdewakanton Oyate, the Dakota people in Minnesota, and an enrolled member ...
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What Relationship Requires
We will protect what we love. And she will protect us.
– Naima Penniman, from “Concentric...
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Human built systems – a work in progress!
One of my favorite authors, John Green, has authored many books — mostly young adult novels. Howeve...
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