The stickiness of our beliefs. The need for repetition. The power of propaganda. These 3 short sentences sum up a main reason we activists do what we do — and have our work cut out for us. Just about everything I’ve written in this essay I’ve written before. More like 50 times before. But if …
It’s all the rage these days for just about everyone, every company, every contractor, every consultant, every government agency doing the usual, everyday destruction to the land to claim their actions are actually benefitting Mother Nature. And that if they don’t do that “management” or “restoration” or “treatment” or “stewardship” something, Mother Nature will be …
Question: What could you call a gathering of vegan activists? Meaning, a name for a group of human animal-lovers equivalent to a herd of elephants, a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese? My technophile brother asked ShatGPT. (He also likes Google’s Demon-I. But hey, no judgment; doesn’t every human now turn off their organic …
Even the most outrageous lies that defy your own common sense can infect your thinking, do an end run around your reasoning powers, and ultimately alter your beliefs, if you hear the lies often enough, from multiple sources, for years. This is how propaganda works, just ask any student of WW2 — or arguably any war, …
The filmmakers who brought you the environmental documentary films, “Kiss the Ground” (2020) and “Common Ground” (2023), which tout the legitimate benefits of chemicals-free “farming,” are at it again with their 3rd film, “Groundswell” (June 5, 2026 release date). They do offer some valuable ecological guidance, rightly disparaging our corporate-backed chemical/poisons dependency to grow food …
The Cattle Empire Strikes Back in Point Reyes Again. Again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Point Reyes National Seashore, finally, with thousands fewer cows compacting and desiccating the land, damaging all manner of vegetation, and polluting park streams and lagoons with manure and urine, the beef and dairy cattle …
Sky-Jack Podcast #72: 9am (PT) Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 Not really alive, but definitely not dead, the Point Reyes ranchers have risen again, walking the halls of government. And talking to breathe life back into the corpse of their dying “small, historic, multi-generational, organic-certified, polluting, climate-heating, animal-torturing” businesses. Just when you thought it was safe to …
February-March 2026 – For over 60 years, dairy and beef cows have continued to ransack — compact, de-vegetate, desiccate, trample, and pollute with manure — almost 20,000 acres of the Point Reyes National Seashore‘s over 70,000 acres, despite being designated a national park back in 1962. VIDEO: “Restoring” land damaged by cows – with …