May all living beings be free. May all living beings be loved. May all living beings be safe. May all living beings have sufficient food water shelter and warmth. May all beings know love care empathy and compassion. May all beings be free from suffering cruelty imprisonment fear pain experimentation and exploitation. May all beings Read more

Because no other planet that we know of has such an abundance of delights as ours.  Such different beings living in every corner of this mass of rock, water, air.  Big, small, hairy, naked, spiky, smooth, beaked, mouth-y, hard, soft, colorful, grey, slow, fast, lonesome, social, timid, feisty.  Breathing carbon dioxide, oxygen, appearing not to Read more

I suffered a lot of chronic pain over the past year and a half, and this has led me to pick up some practices that have had great mental health benefits beyond pain reduction.  One is expressive writing. I’ve always journaled, but I’m approaching it differently now by trying to go deeper to address primary Read more

As many know we had a change of administration in the United States recently. To anyone who loves the Earth and its creatures (including ourselves!) and believes we need to make big changes for life to survive on this planet, this was welcome news. Despite how long I’d anxiously waited for this moment, when it Read more

Imagining control is an addiction for me the way alcohol or drugs are for other people. It enables me to enter an alternate reality where things work the way I want. I spend a lot of time thinking about how people should change their behavior when it comes to the environment, especially. This person should Read more

I started this project with the intent to focus not on the objective facts of environmental destruction or climate change, but on the subjective impact these facts have on humans. There are plenty of resources available to learn about greenhouse gases, deforestation, and mass extinctions. I assume my audience has found me because they are Read more