Sitemap - 2024 - Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From

My Substack Recommendations for 2025

"We All Need to be Tree Huggers Now" & other readings

All my 2024 Photo Posts

Copper Mining: Totally Not Green, But Totally Needed for “Green” Energy

A Reflection on Abuse, Personal & Planetary

O Christmas Tree, Toxic Christmas Tree!

A glimpse of Lothlorien?

"Green" Energy vs. the Mojave Desert (podcast ep. 4)

Are the Plants "Invasive"? or the Land Ethics?

Ep. 4 early release for paying subscribers

Too Much Focus on Carbon

“Invasive Plants”: Immigrants who Nice People can Hate

Learn how Project 2025 threatens the Environment

Autumn in The Gila, 3 of 3: Insects (& one fish)

Autumn in The Gila, 2 of 3: Wildflowers

Autumn in The Gila, 1 of 3: Trees

Meet the new Roundup, worse than the old Roundup

Patriarchy is an Environmental Issue

Postcard from Illinois

The Salton Sea: Very bizarre, very American

The Environment & the Election

We Need More Lunatics

Consideration for all life—even Carrots!

Podcast ep. 3 public premiere

Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation

Teaser for new podcast episode

No, Introduced Plants Aren't Agents of Settler-Colonialism

Why Did Humans Start Farming?

Postcard from the Grand Mesa

Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort

I Got to Pretend I was a Beaver for a Day

Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort

Podcast ep. 2 TEASER: "Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort"

How Will Communities Handle Troublemakers?

Why I Hate Market Farming

Farewell to a Garden

Public Debut of Podcast Episode #1

What's "invasive" in this photo?

Ep. 1: Plant Advocacy

My new podcast debuts next week!

“No” to a “Green Energy Transition”—“Yes” to an “Energy Reduction Transition”

Beyond the War on Invasive Species: Interview with Tao Orion

Agriculture Was a Dick Move

I ❤️ Calendula

Introduced Plants, Settler-Colonialism, Indigenous Perspectives and Decolonization

Competition between Plants: What Biology Says

A Personal Update, with Reflections on Farming

We All Need to Be Tree Huggers Now

Springtime in northern California, vol. 3

“But what about Himalayan Blackberry?”

I ❤️ California Poppies!

Climate Chaos & Changing Plant Communities

Announcing new benefits for paying subscribers!

My adventures in bicycle-based urban farming

"Degrowth" is a tough sell

Can Our Veggie Gardens Feed us in a Real Crisis?

The Myth of the “Second Greatest Threat”

Progress Report: The Book

More springtime in northern California

Ecological impacts of the war machine

7 Reasons Why I Critique the “Invasive Plant” Narrative

Springtime in northern California

"Invasive Species": The Widening Gap between Popular Belief & Science

I'm on iNaturalist now

Your Money or Your Life

Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics

A landscape dammed by beavers, grazed by elk, monitored by wolves and shaped by fire

The Desert is Full of Life

The elusive meaning of the term “invasive species"

Cultural Underpinnings of the “Invasive Plant” Narrative

Announcing a new podcast!

The Key Role of Human Disturbance in the Establishment of Introduced Plants

Guest Post: Botany as Archaeology, to Stop a Lithium Mine

My Focus in 2024: Two "Environmental" Narratives that Threaten Living Ecology