Maddie is a 4th year student majoring in Biology & Environmental Journalism. She is from Connecticut and deeply misses the ocean, but has found a new love in the mountains. Utah’s mountains provide ample opportunity for her to hike, camp, and find bodies of water to jump in. She is continually inspired by nature, allowing it to fuel her writing and photography. Her dream is to get people interested and engaged in environmental protection through the integration of culture and art with science. In her free time she’s tending to her newly planted garden, practicing yoga, or thrifting (compulsively).
Fins slice the glassy water of the bow’s wake. There’s one and then two and then three dolphins swimming alongside us, matching the pace and direction of the boat. They see the boat as a vessel to...
Back in October, I set off into American Fork Canyon in the name of nature and art and feminism. We drove past Tibble Fork Reservoir, then came to the gravel and dirt road that led us to Silver Lake’s...
What is Ecofeminism?
Ecofeminism was first named by Françoise d’Eaubonne in 1980, whereafter it was increasingly used by feminists, environmentalists and scholars. At its core, it argues that both...
Imagine the Annapurna mountain massif, of the north-central Nepali Himalayas, as an enormous living breathing beast. Its scaly snow-dusted spines poking out at each peak, threatening to scrape through...
Destruction and Creation
Destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin - one cannot exist without the other and the practice of one is just as important as the other. Creation is expression,...
What is “natural”?
Social structures organize the framework of our society and are intertwined with the very fabric of our own perception of the world. Currently, the most prominent social structure...
