Extinction Studies

Extinction Studies

Lucienne Rickard spent the past 2 years drawing detailed sketches of lost species and then erasing them. On Sunday, January 24, 2021 she finished drawing and then erased the last one in the series: a swift parrot. In all she created and erased 38 works of art, and...
Thacker Pass Speaks

Thacker Pass Speaks

Activists Will Falk and Max Wilbert are defending Thacker Pass from a massive new lithium mine slated to destroy the wild and beautiful lands in northern Nevada’s Great Basin. They are camped there to protect the land and all the beings who call that land home,...
Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues

Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues

Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues No one warned me that the smokestacks, skyscraper guts, and starless nights could turn my gaze so steely. Carp leapt from green water to smack the flanks of coal barges hauling the corpses of ancient ones who never asked to be cremated....
Forest ecocide

Forest ecocide

There is virtually no old growth forest left in British Columbia. While all climate change plans emphasize that ending deforestation of old growth forests is a priority, the destruction of these forests, these trees, these ecosystems continues apace. Centuries-old...