RIP Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry was one of the truly great communicators and thinkers who helped the environmental movement take hold. If you haven't read The Unsettling of America, please do. A quote from one of my conversations with Randy Hayes (founder of Rainforest Action Network) about the difficulty of communicating the need for environmental responsibility captures Berry's significance. "Let's just tell the truth as best and powerfully as we can, and when we can do so, poetically. We need a little more Wendell Berry in all of us."

Click on the link below for a Orion Magazine tribute to Wendell Berry, who was associated with and a contributor to the publication since its beginning.

https://orionmagazine.org/article/wendell/

Rainforest Radicals in Mongabay

Big Island Rainforest Action Group event flyer--Rainforest Action Network Collection, Bancroft Library

Mongabay, one of the best sources of international environmental news, featured a lengthy question and answer article about Rainforest Radicals. Use the link below to read the full article.

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-an-activist-network-built-pressure-without-political-power/

Rainforest Radicals on the Green and Red podcast

Rainforest Action Network demonstration in Boulder, CO, ca. 1987. Photo courtesy of Randy Hayes,

Rainforest Radicals uses the first two decades of Rainforest Action Network's history to tell a larger story about environmental action, North/South alliances, organizing, and the systemic assaults on the environment and human lives that have only grown in intensity since the end of World War Two. I'm especially grateful for the opportunity to have discussed the book on the Green and Red podcast. The subtitle for the podcast: "Media for Scrappy Radicals," is a great synopsis of what the podcast is about and why it's so important for anyone interested in helping shape a better planet. Scott Parkin (Green and Red co-host and co-producer) and guest co-host Laurel Sutherlin asked incredible questions and were a joy to talk with. Click here to watch the episode on YouTube.