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  • When We Carved Spirals: A Himalayan Diary

    A travelogue from the heart of the Himalayas, a high altitude trek around Apu Manaslu the "spirit mountain". Reflections on remote village life, deep wild nature, Buddhist worship and patterns of existence.

    November 19, 2024
  • Selling nature in order to save it?

    My new opinion piece on the perils and nuances of market-based approaches to regenerating nature.

    December 30, 2022
  • Extinction is loneliness

    Let’s remember what extinction is. What it feels like to those who are dying. Let’s bring it closer to home, envelop it in our arms, and promise, not on my watch. Let’s be the ones who take on the old shapes, the new shapes, pouring ourselves into the voids of extinction, the cognition of our fleshy bodies and synapses fusing again to make entirely...

    March 11, 2022
  • Can We Grow Closer to Life by Measuring Biodiversity?

    Increasingly we must wrap our minds around the sheer complexity and beauty of biodiversity. Whether it's for the development of nature-related financial disclosures, natural capital products, biodiversity bonds, or corporate risk assessments... Biodiversity is the 'hot new thing'. But can the process of measurement actually bring us closer to the living world? I think it can. But only if we apply several key concepts.

    April 18, 2021
  • Our Planet’s Blood

    Our planet has a body just like our own. By swimming in the science of wildlife migration, ecological connectivity and the free flow of Earth systems, I unpack what happens when we strangle the passage of human and non-human life.

    December 2, 2020

Writing

When We Carved Spirals: A Himalayan Diary

A travelogue from the heart of the Himalayas, a high altitude trek around Apu Manaslu the "spirit mountain". Reflections on remote village life, deep wild nature, Buddhist worship and...

November 19, 2024

Selling nature in order to save it?

My new opinion piece on the perils and nuances of market-based approaches to regenerating nature.

December 30, 2022

Extinction is loneliness

Let’s remember what extinction is. What it feels like to those who are dying. Let’s bring it closer to home, envelop it in our arms, and promise, not on...

March 11, 2022

Can We Grow Closer to Life by Measuring Biodiversity?

Increasingly we must wrap our minds around the sheer complexity and beauty of biodiversity. Whether it's for the development of nature-related financial disclosures, natural capital products, biodiversity bonds, or...

April 18, 2021

Our Planet’s Blood

Our planet has a body just like our own. By swimming in the science of wildlife migration, ecological connectivity and the free flow of Earth systems, I unpack what...

December 2, 2020

Let’s Talk about Nature

An opinion piece I wrote on three broad problems with how the term ‘nature’ is commonly used, and a few ideas on how we can refresh the ways that...

August 26, 2020

Desire Trails: Experiments in Reading the Land

The second part of my Becoming Landscape series. Here I speak to the ways that desire paints itself across the land, through deer trails and shadows and treetops; the...

May 6, 2020

Becoming Landscape

This is my story of becoming an apprentice to a living landscape. It’s a journey into an ecology of mind — a tale where the human psyche and imagination...

April 22, 2020

food for thought

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky,
whose door is the morning mist,
and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

Khalil Gibran

Recent Posts

November 19, 2024

When We Carved Spirals: A Himalayan Diary

A travelogue from the heart of the Himalayas, a high altitude trek around Apu Manaslu the "spirit mountain". Reflections...

November 17, 2024

Interstitials: On Clouds

A poem inspired by the clouds of the Swiss Alps and the Himalays. With gratitude for what they have...

May 12, 2023

Mountain Myths

"Bear thunder down on my belly and watch me explode. Watch me become mad, mercurial, savage. Bear fire on...

May 12, 2023

Dying to a Late Summer Gale

Mythic invocation of autumn decay. Written in Northern Canada under a windswept sky.

December 30, 2022

Selling nature in order to save it?

My new opinion piece on the perils and nuances of market-based approaches to regenerating nature.

December 30, 2022

Help me to grow into the shape of the world

Deep winter elicited this poem from me.

October 19, 2022

Co-Director // SEED Biocomplexity @ the Crowther Lab

I am heading up a new biodiversity center called SEED that is being created in the Crowther Lab at...

July 11, 2022

Founder & Host // Lifeworlds Podcast

Lifeworlds is podcast series guided by nature. It is an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies where we explore...

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

William Blake

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