University professor turns bus into tiny home

Own it. With no mortgage.Imagine a space filled with light, an office that can move with you, and a heating, cooking, and electricity bill = $0. Envision what we can do, every day, when we have more time and more choices. This is the life I’m creating with my 140-square-foot home,  a converted 2007 Champion […]

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Climate change impacts everyone

Today I gave a 30-minute webinar on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples at a conference organized by SUNY-Plattsburgh. Students helped me expand the case studies, showing how specific peoples are being affected by climate change. You want data? This talk has serious data.

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SPRING 2015 – SJSU Students report on nature + culture

When academia breaks out of the ivory tower, good things can happen. Once again, my students are reporting on tribal issues in the national media. Read and learn! California Students Research the Impact of Drought on Tribes Indian County Today Media Network • March 9, 2015 ” The relationship between the Hoopa and fish of […]

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Climate Leadership Parade

How do we effect change? We march. We put ourselves out on the streets with tens, hundreds, thousands of other people. In this case, I marched on February 7th in Oakland, CA for Climate Leadership with over twenty of my San Jose State University students. Before we hit the streets, we held a circle in […]

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Indonesian Dungeons & Dragons – Part 3

AT LONG LAST, the appointed person, the requisite form, and the necessary typewriter all converged in the same time-space zone in the final phase of my research permitting process at the Indonesian Social-Political Ministry…continue reading

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