I have always loved nature, what kid doesn’t? I was blessed and fortunate enough to grow up in a house that had a mulberry tree in the yard. I loved…

A number of years ago before I made Grand Rapids my home I was living out in Portland, Oregon. I considered myself so lucky to live in a place where…

I often think about two childhood memories fondly.  The first is of me foraging for mushrooms with my grandfather during the rainy season, in Michoacan.  The other is of me watching…

I was born and raised on Oahu Hawai’i where land and water are spirit. Nature was home, provider, and our responsibility to malama ’aina - to take care of the…

Climate change has been identified as one of the main reasons for people's internal and external displacement worldwide. In my day job working with refugees and immigrants, I have seen…

I remember my first elementary school Science Fair project focusing on conservation efforts for baby seals, whose lives were threatened due to mass fishing in the northwest. This was the…

Climate has always been important for my family. Water and the power it possesses have always been clear to my parents. The calm of waves, the memories of a beach,…