Author. Educator. Activist.
Explore this site to learn about projects I’m working on, or to get involved.
Featured project
Trouble for Salmon on the Elwha River
The Trump administration’s budget and staffing cuts at the National Park Service are endangering one of the continent’s most important salmon habitat restoration projects Read more in The Revelator.
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Book
Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change
Movement Makers is the first book to comprehensively document 20+ years of youth climate activism in the United States, showing how a scattering of campaigns grew into a massive grassroots uprising. Find out more.
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Short writings
Journalism and more
My journalism and other short writings have appeared in publications including Waging Nonviolence, The Revelator, Columbia Insight, In These Times, and Sierra. Most are related to the natural world and the struggle for a livable future. See some of my latest stories.
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Blog
Out of the Forest, Into the Streets
Thoughts on Earth’s vital signs, social movements, and how to avoid a global mass extinction even. Read more.
About Nick
Nick Engelfried writes about inspiring grassroots social movements and important environmental issues. He is the author of Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change. As a freelance journalist, Nick has covered the Pacific Northwest fossil fuel resistance, Indigenous-led campaigns to stop oil pipelines, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the rise of the Fridays for Future climate strikes, and many other important topics. Learn more here.
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