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YES! Magazine Stamping my feet on the frozen ground of the National Mall on a bitter cold morning in January 2009, I didn’t think we had gathered to welcome a climate president. Foremost in my mind, at that time and in that place, were the seemingly endless war in Iraq, the reeling economy, and the … Continue reading Obama’s Quiet Climate Legacy: A $5 Trillion College Divestment Campaign
This comic was originally published by YES! Magazine Illustrations by Jen Luxton Suppressing fires breaks the natural cycle of life and death crucial to forest health.
This article was written for YES! Magazine As a child, Princess Lucaj was mystified by the oil wells she saw while visiting Los Angeles and the La Brea Tar Pits. She imagined they were dinosaurs and wondered what they could be up to. "We take care of the herd, and the herd takes care of … Continue reading In Alaska, Indigenous Voices Raised in the Struggle Between Life and Oil
This commentary was written for YES! Magazine Insults. Name-calling. Death threats. Sound like a Trump rally? Actually, it’s all part of the dialogue among conservation-minded folks in response to a recent Washington state decision to kill a wolf pack that had been preying on livestock on public land. But these aren’t death threats hurled at … Continue reading Sticks and Stones and Dead Wolves
This comic was originally published by YES! Magazine Each year, immense schools of migrating salmon bring nutrients from the ocean to Pacific Northwest rivers—literally feeding the trees. Here’s where humans come in. Sources: David Suzuki Foundation. Dr. T. E. Reimchen lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Salmon Forest Project (Reimchen and Fox 2013). World Wildlife … Continue reading It Takes A Lot of Fish to Feed a Forest
This commentary was written for YES! Magazine In 1962, Diane Arbus took a photo of a lanky young boy in Central Park holding a hand grenade. He stands before the camera, a deranged look on his face, his free hand contorted into a menacing claw. It’s an iconic image that captured the generational tension around the … Continue reading If It Hadn’t Been for Those Meddling Climate Kids…
This article was written for YES! Magazine The Unist’ot’en occupy a unique spot. Hidden in the forests of northern British Columbia, this clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation straddles one of the few potable rivers remaining on the continent. In the summer, the water is electric with salmon and steelhead trout beating their unbelievable course from the … Continue reading One Clan’s Unique Weapon Against Big Oil
STEPHEN ROBERT MILLER 