Writing
Selected Articles, Books, and Book Chapters
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New Essay from the Center for Humans and Nature:
Calibrating the Value of All Things: Measuring Time with Three Trees in the Anthropocene
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Los Derechos de la Naturaleza - The Rights of Nature
Mixed media: Text of Chapter 7, Article 71 in the constitution of Ecuador that guarantees rights to Nature (Pacha Mama) hand etched onto glass; Cobalt-winged Parakeets at a clay lick in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park (detail of photograph by Thomas L. Fleischner printed on metal); found and altered wood; found and altered metal; no. 11 glass beads wire-formed into various flaura and fauna of Ecuador. Seen clockwise from lower left, these are: Tourmaline Sunangel (Heliangelus exortis), Orchid sp.,Heliconia sp., White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii), Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina), Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone), Ecuadorian Hillstar (Oreotrochilus chimborazo), Chuquiraga sp., Buff-tailed Coronet (Boissonneaua flavescens), Orchid sp., Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii).
About River Glass Books
The mission of River Glass Books is to foster a culture of sustainability in the arts and support climate justice solutions—all while publishing compelling contemporary literature in fine limited edition chapbooks. We believe that just and equitable solutions to the climate crisis are only possible by undoing historic systems of inequity and dispossession, and that the current flux of the world presents, among deep and myriad tragedy, the opportunity for positive change. River Glass Books seeks to be a vehicle for this change.
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“A powerful exploration of resilience and the vital practices that unite us in times of adversity.” —Davona Blackhorse, MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling; MS, Interdisciplinary Health
“An elegant and poignant essay . . . offering handholds on the pathway toward healing.” —Thomas Lowe Fleischner, PhD., Founding Director, Natural History Institute
Each Step A Prayer
Ecopsychology, Volume: 14, Number: 3 (September 2022) Special Issue on Nature and Health—Part 1
Resource Colonialism, Historical Trauma, Art Intervention, and Healing between the Sacred Mountains
Women’s Eco Arts Dialog (WEAD) magazine, issue 12, one of WEAD’s contributions to Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a multimedia, multi-venue international art intervention to investigate the extraction industry in all its forms.
Boundaries, Connection, and Imperfect Karma in the Time of Covid
Real Ground Journal, Natural History Institute (May, 2020)
Pulling Together in Rising Waters: Reciprocity as Practice
Ecopsychology, Vol. 12, No.3 (September, 2020) Special Issue on Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health and Wild Vitality
Curatorial Statement
Beauty Passing Through Us - Natural History and Art as Intervention (an exhibition in support of Extraction, Art on the Edge of the Abyss) Online exhibit at the Natural History Institute, 2021. Online opening.
Serendipity, Sculpture and Story
Pages 101-113 in T.L. Fleischner, ed. Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness. Torrey House Press, 2017.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Packing Light
Sage Woman (Number 69, Spring) pp-23-26.
Giving Back
Sage Woman (Number 68, Fall) pp 14-15.
Water Council
In Saving the Skagit, North Cascades Institute’s Skagit River Watershed Curriculum Guide. North Cascades Institute, Sedro Woolley, Washington.
Viki Blackgoat Watering (Dillon)
Photos, l-r :Yellow Dirt Testimony, Installation at Coconino Center for the Arts. (Dillon); Some of the over 1200 masks (Re)repurposed from Yellow Dirt Testimony (Fleischner); (Re)repurposed Masks packaged for use (Fleischner); Mask and folded cranes at Poston, site of the largest of the World War ll Japanese internment camps (Claire Joko-Fujimoto)
