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Last week I was in Hillsboro, Oregon during an exceptionally warm stretch of days in late December. The sun and relatively balmy temperatures made being outside pleasant, but I couldn’t help speculating that I was observing the effects of the climate crisis playing out in real time. Again and again, I found myself torn between
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Banner photo: Friends of Family Farmers When Alice Morrison was growing up in suburban Louisville, Kentucky, her mother taught her to grow tomatoes in the garden. It was about as close as Morrison, a future farmer and small farms advocate, got to agricultural work back then. “I lived in a place where agriculture wasn’t very
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In a first for the United States, young people in Montana recently won a precedent-setting court victory grounded in the state’s constitution. As someone who spent over four years organizing against fossil fuel projects in this coal and oil-producing state (working with many amazing student activists along the way), I felt especially elated to learn
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This piece originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence As pandemic restrictions fade, students are finding innovative ways to end higher ed’s many ties to the fossil fuel industry. From late November through early March of this year, visitors to the University of Washington Career Center in Seattle would have found students sitting in a circle on
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Large fossil fuel corporations are under fire more than ever before for attempting to shape how governments respond—or don’t—to climate change. Last year, oil and gas companies sent over 600 representatives to a major UN climate conference, and there’s no doubt the industry has formidable resources it can channel into trying to sway decisions in
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Above: UM students march for fossil fuel divestment in 2015 Not long ago, returned to the University of Montana campus in Missoula for a visit for the first time in several years. I was a grad student at UM from 2011-2013, during which time I completed my master’s in Environmental Studies with a focus on
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I once heard a Black activist whom I admire here in Bellingham, Washington admonish a largely White audience at a Black History Month event to remember that the history of Black people is part of our history, too. I took his words to mean that the world all of us inhabit today has been shaped
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On Monday, people across the Pacific Northwest convened online and at two in-person gatherings for a “people’s hearing” on what has become the latest front in the resistance to large fossil fuel projects in the region: a proposed massive capacity expansion of the Gas Transmission Northwest, or GTN, pipeline. Operated by Canadian corporation TC Energy,
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One of my earliest memories involving bats dates back to when I was five years old. I was outside on the lawn at my grandmother’s house in central Washington State, looking up at the darkening evening sky as winged forms darted in and out of my line of vision. I don’t know which of the
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I’m honored to have been able to speak with Joye Braun in 2021, for a story on the successful campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. Her passing is a true loss to the climate and environmental justice movements. Photo credit: Twitter/@janekleeb There was still snow on the ground on April 1, 2016, when Joye
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Nick Engelfried 