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When Dad’s Land Finally Came to Life: Outside Review
I pushed through the screen door of our cabin, worried about what I might find. It was the first fine week of spring 2004, and a warm wind off Lake Michigan gently raked the pollen [...]
The Deer Camp: Kirkus Review
Kuipers (Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, 2009, etc.) returns with a frank, personal, and sometimes-painful account of his fractured family. The author, who has written about environmental issues for decades, [...]
The Deer Camp: Publishers Weekly Review
Environmental writer Kuipers (Burning Rainbow Farm) recounts his family’s connection to Michigan’s landscape and its influence on his and his brothers’ relationship with their father. Despite their father’s philandering, domineering attitude and religious zeal, Kuipers [...]
The Atlantic: Three Ways to Combat Climate Change Through the Courts
With the executive and legislative branches refusing to act, the judicial branch might be the last hope.
Wired: Pipeline Vandals Are Reinventing Climate Activism
Angry about climate change, activists shut down an oil pipeline in Minnesota—and then tried to convince a jury that their illegal actions were necessary.
Los Angeles Review of Books: How to Fight the Fire
Wendell Berry’s new collection, “The World-Ending Fire,” teaches that the rotten ways we treat one another are rooted in the rotten ways we treat the land....
Capital & Main: Homeless in California: Dignity is a Hot Shower.
Facilities that provide showers and clean clothes encourage the homeless to seek health services and permanent supportive housing
Capital & Main: Zero for Effort: Environmental Scorecard Flunks California Congressmembers
Figures compiled from campaign contribution records show that fossil fuel industries donate almost exclusively to Republican candidates. “They’ve gone out of their way to help oil and gas and coal,” says one environmentalist.
Capital & Main: Smog Check: Central Valley Congressmen Refuse to Clear the Air
Both ozone and particulate pollution are attributed to oil and gas production, agribusiness, mega-dairies, power generation, heavy equipment and truck traffic – many of the Central Valley’s major businesses.
Capital & Main: Judging Janus: Will California’s Unions Survive?
Right-to-work forces see in Janus v. AFSCME a golden opportunity to cripple public-sector unions, while organized labor looks for a silver lining in the event the Supreme Court rules in Mark Janus’ favor.