Freelance Writer, PhD Student: Political Ecology Director, Walking Two Worlds + The Forests are our Brothers (2025) [email protected]
Victoria, British Columbia
Joined April 2016
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Reporting from #COP26, I spoke with Indigenous organizers for @voguemagazine, whose demands to keep fossil fuels in the ground, for Indigenous rights and a just transition are essential to keep rising temperatures from exceeding 1.5'C vogue.com/article/what-indig…
Great presentation by Rachel Holt re the state of BC's forests and the wood pellet sector: youtube.com/watch?v=5opoP_ZB…
“We’re spending capital in primary forests generated over thousands of years in BC since the Ice Age."
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.@UHC denied my surgery two days before it was scheduled. I was in the hospital finance office in tears (when I was supposed to be at the hospital doing pre-op stuff). 1/7
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You know what firefighters call vinyl siding?
"Solidified gasoline"
It starts melting @ 165 F. and burns like napalm.
The #oilandgas industry is a #Fire industry.
The heat from the pipeline has melted the siding on this man’s home in Deer Park.
#KHOU11
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The @NewYorker has produced a remarkable database that lists investigations into potential war crimes committed by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, during its War on Terror
newyorker.com/podcast/in-the…
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A Canadian company is the only one in the world making a special part for Israeli warplanes bombing Palestinians.
In Europe, the existence of such a sole-source supplier of F-35 parts has become “vital” to a legal attempt to halt Dutch exports to Israel. breachmedia.ca/israeli-warpl…
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Incredibly stupid and dangerous for Democrats to keep claiming right-wing positions as some kind of sensible middle ground, especially when it comes to energy newrepublic.com/article/1858…
"While the province fumbles on its commitments, old growth falls; forest defenders are arrested; mills close; and ecosystems are pushed further toward the brink of collapse by major timber companies." Great op-ed by @talltegan 👏
nationalobserver.com/2024/07…
"A 2021 study predicted that ecosystem collapse in B.C.’s interior rainforest is imminent in the next nine to 18 years. The province’s own research shows almost 2,000 other species are at risk of disappearing."
Stunning reporting again by @zoeyunker thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/11/A…
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Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on DNC: “Despite the appeals of Palestinian American delegates and activists, no Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say” vanityfair.com/news/story/dn…
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Today on @TheCurrent, survivors of St. Michael’s Indian Residential School reconstruct the school from their memories. If you listen to one episode of our podcast, please make it this one.
“Is salvage logging going to make it an even bigger disaster?”
Excellent reporting by @zoeyunker and @tayloroades' photojournalism via @thenarwhalca on disaster capitalism exploiting the shock of unprecedented forest fires:
thenarwhal.ca/bc-wildfires-s…
#bcpoli #wildfires #canpoli
"After Canada's most destructive wildfire season on record, the results suggested the B.C. public was ready to accept a narrative that the forestry industry could act as a saviour."
timescolonist.com/islander/c…
#bcpoli #wildfires #canpoli
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When I first heard companies are logging #wildfire zones in B.C., I wanted to learn more.
My @thenarwhalca investigation digs in on a skyrocketing new forest industry in the province.
(with photos from the amazing Taylor Roades!)
thenarwhal.ca/bc-wildfires-s… #bcpoli #forests
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Great profile. One thing I said that didn't make it in is that The Dig reflects a socialist approach to the attention economy. Dan's after real engagement, not chasing clicks. He lifts up scholars who are often not online very much, if at all, because he knows the ideas matters.
I’m grateful for thoughtful profile in @guardian by @SFeldblum. It gets to the core of @thedigradio as a political project, and connects the podcast to the housing justice organizing I do in Rhode Island and my role repping uncommitted voters at the DNC. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
"The idea that sounds can indicate the health of our world emerged years ago with Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. In the 1960s, she implored readers to imagine a world made quieter by the “grim specter” of widely used pesticides.
“On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices,” she wrote. “There was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”
atmos.earth/bird-song-the-vo…