Animating Stories to Keep Languages Alive

May 2, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

50% of our world’s languages are threatened. What can we do? In my San Jose State University class, students are making bilingual story-films by adding pictures to stories by grandmothers and grandfathers. I’m thrilled to showcase our newest film – a story by Kashaya elder Essie Parrish, beautifully illustrated with digital paints by Rachael Borch.

University professor turns bus into tiny home

April 10, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Climate change impacts everyone

March 21, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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.

SPRING 2015 – SJSU Students report on nature + culture

March 5, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Climate Leadership Parade

February 23, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

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 […]