Climate Change
Trying to Devour My Climate Anxiety
Even though I’ve learned I can’t always consume everything, it doesn’t stop me from trying.
The Comfort of Time Loops in the Age of Climate Crisis
Unlike these stories, we don’t have decades of do-overs—especially on the West Coast, where the droughts are real and the big earthquake could shake things loose anytime.
The Climate of Gender
On climate change, transitioning, gender, and the vanishing sweetness of maple trees.
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Gathering Visions of the End of the World
Everyone talks about sea levels and temperatures rising, but there’s also the more tangible inevitability of the soil running out.
How Translating Annie Dillard Helps Me Attend to a Dying World
Dillard stalked a world just beginning its freefall into an unprecedented amount of change, and her response was to look, and to look hard.
When It Comes to Climate Change, Grief Is More Useful Than Empty Nostalgia
We are already living in a changed world. Giving yourself time and space to grieve is important. But grief can also be a powerful tool for motivation.
Exploring a Rocky Mountain Glacier in the Space Between Science and Storytelling
Kate Harris writes in Lands of Lost Borders, “Explorers might be extinct, in the historic sense of the vocation, but exploring still exists, will always exist: in the basic longing to learn what in the universe we are doing here.” This is exactly how I felt working at Hilda Glacier.
Encountering Beauty and the Effects of Climate Change in Acadia National Park
As a child growing up in a landlocked state, I’d imagined the flock of gulls as a cloud of wings, calls sounding like laughter. Now I was struggling to grasp all that we’d lost.
On Political Change, Climate Change, and the Choice to Not Have Children
My partner and I were trying to have a baby despite our climate fears. Then Trump was elected.
