Below is one in a series of letters to an ecosaboteur, declared by our government an “ecoterrorist,” who is serving 96 months in federal prison. In his most recent email, this individual, w
Energy is Eternal Delight (Counterpunch, July 2022)
There are visions sometimes in the middle of a summer’s day that can only happen in the woods. I was on the banks of a pond off Mount Tremper, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, with my daugh
Latest Loathsome Antics of the Nature Conservancy, or, Why you can’t trust corporate prostitutes to be environmentalists (Grist.org, June 2022)
More than 150 conservation, environmental, and social justice organizations have accused The Nature Conservancy of “promoting false climate solutions.” A logging truck enters a wood-pel
“Logging-for-wildlife” — the new trick in the timber industry’s playbook (National Geographic, March 2022)
(Originally published at National Geographic under the title, “Is Clearcutting U.S. Forests Good for Wildlife?“) Coming upon a clear-cut in an old forest is a jolting experience. Trees
The Sane Society (Counterpunch, May 2022)
“The fact that millions of people share…so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people san
The Business of Scenery (Harper’s Magazine, April 2021)
Amusement Parks — Harper’s Magazine, April 2021 (pdf)
Cities and Green Orthodoxy: The Future of Sustainable Development (Counterpunch)
September 27, 2020 Cities and Green Orthodoxy The Future of Sustainable Development by Christopher Ketcham Photograph Source: Boqiang Liao – CC BY 2.0 As the world has urbanized rapidly since 195
Wreckreation, Public Lands, and the Fecal Timebomb (Counterpunch)
“On the trails of the public lands of the Catskills there is more trash too, more than I have ever seen in three decades of hiking and camping in these woods. Also more feces. People ar
Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse? (The New Republic)
“Weather and climate—drought, high winds, heat waves with triple-digit temperatures—have exacerbated the Western wildfires. But there’s also another factor that researchers and activist
Is 5G going to kill us all? (The New Republic)
From my piece on 5G and EMF radiation: “The signatories of the EMF Scientists Appeal were particularly concerned with a vaunted new wireless communications system known as 5G, which, they war