Nature Writing Blog

On Friday morning Sean Richards is already at work in the garden before ten. It’s one of the first truly warm days of the season and...

This week we watched David Attenborough’s film “Life On Our Planet.” The film contained beautiful footage. I found it both impressive and...

This week out class turned towards the water, visiting San Pedro and fostering a curiosity for those life forms that are both so like us...

This week we read three pieces, each of which detailed divisions either within the US or between the United States and others. Because of...

I’d like to write an article about integration of native plant species into spaces to promote biodiversity particularly in the LA area....

This week’s readings and discussions revolved around the question of how we can talk about environmental issues in order to be effective...

My relationship with the desert has always been an uneasy one. It has the misfortune of being the biome in which I was raised and...

It’s difficult to pin down one particular way in which we are inspired by nature. The question itself is somewhat interesting when we...

Reading Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” and attending a screening of Veronica Becker-Peral’s film “Promise and Peril” once again has...

For week four we read two chapters from Pope Francis' encyclical centering around the global climate crisis, “Laudato Si’.” As a person...

Arguably the climate crisis is a topic that is personal to every living being, that said, this week’s approach to it hit close to home...

This week felt like an exercise in choosing an intentional worldview, especially pertaining to humanity and its capacity for improvement....

This week we read a segment of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. While I’ve heard of the work innumerable times and been aware of its...