Articles and Other Short Writings

Nick’s writings on activism, climate issues, environmental education, and more have appeared in many diverse publications. The below pieces are a sampling of his work.

Environmental Education

“Why Activism Needs to be Part of Any Meaningful Climate Education” – Waging Nonviolence

“Can We Teach the Earth Charter Anymore? A Critical Examination of the Earth Charter’s Role in Education” (co-authored) – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education

“White Guy Hiking: How I Learned to Think Critically About My Ecological Identity” – Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays

“Confronting a World of Wounds” – CLEARING Magazine

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Natural History

“Save Giraffes From a Silent Extinction”ForceChange.com

“North America’s Rarest Cats Need Our Help” ForceChange.com

“Incredible Kelp Forests With Countless Marine Animals Are Facing Destruction”ForceChange.com

“Tasmanian Devils: Long Persecuted and in Need of Help”ForceChange.com

“Shy, Elusive Wolverines are Clinging to Survival”ForceChange.com

“See Turtles, Ancient Survivors of the Oceans, Could Soon be Extinct”ForceChange.com

“The World’s Loneliest Frog Finds a Mate!” – Daily Kos

“Mapping Washington Bumble Bees” – 1889 Magazine 

“Imperiled Bats Need Our Help, Not Persecution”ForceChange.com

“Moths of the Methow” – Methow Naturalist

“Studying Moths in the North Cascades” – Chattermarks

“Chasing Birds in Washington” – 1889 Magazine

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Fiction

“A Field Trip to the Dark Woods”Exterminating Angel Press: The Magazine

“The Hills of Eternity” – Exterminating Angel Press: The Magazine 

“Mountain Words” – Exterminating Angel Press: The Magazine 

“Empire Camp” – Exterminating Angel Press: The Magazine

“The Highway of Regrets” – Exterminating Angel Press: The Magazine 

Activism and Politics

Photo credit: Alejandro Alvarez

“Will Washington’s Groundbreaking Climate Law Inspire Other States?”Sierra

Washington is about to reform recycling. Will it work?” – Columbia Insight

PNW hatcheries face rising costs, crumbling infrastructure” – Columbia Insight

On wildlife, Ferguson is no Inslee” – Columbia Insight

Greenpeace remains determined to fight the corporate silencing of dissent” – Waging Nonviolence

How long will the Olympic Peninsula tree-sit go on?” – Columbia Insight

New world disorder: Get ready for dirty toilets, closed facilities and fewer firefighters” – Columbia Insight

As extreme weather batters communities, New York climate activists show a powerful path forward– Waging Nonviolence

“Nothing new: How renewable energy projects perpetuate desecration of tribal lands”Columbia Insight

A new fight is coming over plastic bags” – Columbia Insight

Following November election, Washington is emerging as a national leader in climate battle” – Columbia Insight

“University of Toronto students score a win for the climate — and campus protests more broadly” – Waging Nonviolence

“Washingtonians will cast the year’s most consequential climate vote”Columbia Insight

“Washington has few older forests left. Why does DNR keep logging them?”Columbia Insight

“West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass”Waging Nonviolence

“Why the Climate Movement is Actually Close to Winning”Waging Nonviolence

“As Private Interests Turn Profits on Public Lands, Wildlife and Taxpayers Pay the Price” – Columbia Insight

“Burning Trees: As the Biomass Industry Grows, Its Carbon Emissions Go Uncounted”The Revelator

“Climate Movement Elders Revive Monkey Wrench Tactics to Save an Old Forest”Waging Nonviolence

“The Biomass Boom is Coming: Is the Pac NW Ready?” Columbia Insight

“Student-Led Climate Activism is Flourishing in DeSantis’s Florida”Waging Nonviolence

“UK Company Wants to Turn Pac NW Trees Into International Energy Source”Columbia Insight

“6 Lessons for Climate Activists in Turbulent Times”Waging Nonviolence

“A Major Win Against Factory Farming Points to a Powerful New Direction for the Climate Movement”Waging Nonviolence

“How Montana Youth Turned the Tables and Won an Unprecedented Climate Victory”In These Times

“Divest, Decarbonize and Disassociate — Inside the Bold New Push to Get Fossil Fuels Off Campus”Resilience.org

“Northwest Climate Activists Fight a New Front in the Movement to Stop Fossil Fuels”Waging Nonviolence

“Climate activists and water protectors honor pipeline resister Joye Braun with a national day of action”Waging Nonviolence

“How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With”Waging Nonviolence

“The Fossil Free Research Movement is Taking Universities by Storm”Waging Nonviolence

“Climate Activists Across the Global South and North Unite to Stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline”Waging Nonviolence

“Wildlife Killing Contests Are a Senseless Celebration of Slaughter and Cruelty”ForceChange.com

“Three Years After the First Global School Strike, Signs of the Youth Climate Movement’s Success Are Everywhere”Waging Nonviolence

“It’s Time to Challenge Animal Agriculture–Without the ‘Go Vegan’ Campaigns” – The Trouble

“As Biden Backslides, a Bigger, Better-organized Climate Movement Prepares to Seize this ‘Now or Never’ Moment” – Waging Nonviolence

“Indigenous Youth Keep Pressure on Biden in Pipeline Fights” – Deceleration

“Old-Growth Forests and Their Animal Inhabitants are Disappearing”ForceChange.com

“Overwhelming Odds, Unexpected Alliances and Tough Losses — How Defeating Keystone XL Built a Bolder, Savvier Climate Movement” – Waging Nonviolence

“Oil and Gas Pipelines are a Disaster for Wildlife”ForceChange.com

“Indigenous-led Resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline Threatens Big Oil’s Last Stand” – Vox Populi

“As the Smoke Subsides, West Coast Climate Activists Show What an Effective Response Looks Like” – Waging Nonviolence

“After a Big Win Against Coal, NY Climate Activists are Closer than Ever to Ending All Fossil Fuel Investments”Waging Nonviolence

“Protecting the Sacred Place Where Life Begins” – Eurasia Review

“For Climate Activists, Coronavirus Lockdown Means More Time to Organize”– Waging Nonviolence

“How a New Generation of Climate Activists is Reviving Fossil Fuel Divestment and Gaining Victories” – Waging Nonviolence

“How Generation Z is Leading the Climate Movement” – Waging Nonviolence

“Giving Youth a Voice: Jamie Margolin Leads the Way on Climate Change” – 1889 Magazine

“How the Youth-Led Climate Strikes Became a Global Movement” – Waging Nonviolence

“Climate Activists Set Sights on Ending Fossil Fuel Exports in the Northwest Once and for All” – Waging Nonviolence 

“Cows and Climate Change: Clearing Up the Confusion” – Daily Kos

“How Young Activists Turned the Old Idea of a Green New Deal into a Powerful Movement” – Waging Nonviolence 

“Trump’s Failed Coal Mission: A Year in Recap” – Daily Kos

“Australia’s Fires are Burning Animals to Death”ForceChange.com

“First Nations Take on Canadian Government to Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline” – Waging Nonviolence 

“8 Lessons for Today’s Youth-Led Movements From a Decade of Youth Climate Organizing” – Waging Nonviolence

“What Happens When Trump’s War on the “War on Coal” Fails?” – Daily Kos

“So, You Think You Voted?” – Daily Kos

“Why There’s Hope for the Climate Movement Under Trump” – Waging Nonviolence 

“What I Saw at a Love Trumps Hate Rally” – Daily Kos 

“How #NoDAPL United a Movement for Indigenous Rights” – Waging Nonviolence 

“These Are the People Who Trump Wants to Ban From Coming to the US” – Daily Kos

“How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America” – YES! Magazine

“Montanans Calling for Climate Solutions” – The Missoulian

“The Extraction Backlash: How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Aiding Their Own Demise” – Common Dreams

“Indigenous Organizing Drives Montana Tar Sands Opposition”Waging Nonviolence

“How to Stop a Coal Train In Its Tracks” – Common Dreams 

“Montana Coal Protesters Argue Necessity Defense” – Waging Nonviolence

“Big Coal Faces Big Opposition in Pacific Northwest” – Salon

“Montanans Prepare to Harness Direct Action in Coal Fight” – Waging Nonviolence 

“Is Millennium Bulk Logistics a Good Neighbor for Oregon?”BlueOregon.com

“Defending the Clean Air Act from Congress”BlueOregon.com

“In Corvallis, a Community Takes Steps to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels”BlueOregon.com

“The Youth Movement’s Fight for a Fossil-Free Northwest”Inside Climate News

“PGE Tries to Fool Oregonians, Holds Columbia Gorge Hostage”BlueOregon.com

“Boardman Coal Plant a Hot Topic at Public Hearing”BlueOregon.com

“Now is the Time to Move Oregon Beyond Coal”BlueOregon.com

“High Stakes: LNG and the Legislature” – The Oregonian

“Grassroots Organizing and the Defeat of Bradwood LNG”BlueOregon.com

“Funding for Dirty Energy and Emissions Casts Shadow on PNC Bank’s Green Image” – UK Guardian

“The Youth Movement Goes to Copenhagen” – YES! Magazine