“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
How Instagram Ruined the Great Outdoors (The New Republic)
In a word: Instagram influencers suck for the wild. https://newrepublic.com/article/153603/instagram-ruined-great-outdoors
Why a cell signal in national parks is bad for the national soul (Sierra Magazine)
My piece in Sierra exposing how the National Park Service is serving telecom interests and furthering the invasion of our national parks with cell signals and wifi came out in June…and of cou
Video: Massive Pinyon-Juniper Deforestation on our Public Lands
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/geHPhStd/lowresthisland_hd.mp4
New Dog in Town (an essay on our friend the coyote)
(Orion Magazine, 2010) WILD COYOTES HAVE SETTLED in or around every major city in the United States, thriving as never before, and in New York they have taken to golf. I’m told the New Yorker coy
The Coyote Hunt
(CounterPunch, April 28, 2017) I walked up the mountain in the howling snow and the drifts and the flashing of the moon behind the clouds, looking for coyote traps to sabotage. The coyote hunt was
Die, TV!
(CounterPunch, Feb. 1, 2007) The TV-B-Gone, which fits in the palm of the hand, is a universal remote whose sole purpose and power is to shut down televisions. During last year’s Super Bowl Sunda
Screenlandia and Mass Man
(CounterPunch, March 10, 2017) Every human in my immediate view is hunched over a screen. It is something out of a horror movie. You who have wandered in the backcountry and for even a few days hav
Mother Justice
(Vanity Fair, Nov. 2008) When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went