Publisher’s Weekly reviewed Why We Need to Be Wild saying, “Readers who’ve questioned the pitfalls of tech-based living will be intrigued.” (June, 2023).

For Proto.Life, I cover the health benefits of rewilding and primitive skills gatherings. August 18, 2022.

While past generations offered kids free range in our neighborhoods and natural areas, our current culture limits childhood freedoms. The result is an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, stress and widespread incidence of what author Richard Louv calls “nature deficit disorder.” This disconnection also means that in the future there could be fewer advocates for the environment, which jeopardizes the health of the planet… Walden Gathering, June 11, 2018.

I talked with Literary Mama contributor Natalie Tomlin about the extreme privilege and supreme disadvantages of modern motherhood, concluding that nature is the best village we have to offer our kids in the techno-dystopia of modern life. November, 2017.

Kids under 10 should be playing outside instead, BRIGHT Magazine, May 10, 2017.

In a nutshell — and nuts are key here — primal living is popular. But is it green? I tried out the diet and attended PrimalCon in an effort to find out, July 2, 2012.

San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2011.

Ethnobotanist Jolie Egert says acorns are poised for a comeback as a sustainable food aided by the state's plentiful and adaptable oaks.