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Since 2025, I have been collaborating with Krystal Curley, the director of the organization Indigenous Lifeways, and with undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico, to produce policy briefs that help create greater understanding of the fossil fuel industry in New Mexico and prospects for transitioning to development pathways that are more sustainable. Here I provide those policy briefs that are aimed toward a public audience.
The many alternative forms of transportation that rely on electricity or human leg/arm power are of course a critical part of transitioning to more eco-friendly cities. But I think both cyclists and vehicle drivers need to be very careful during this transition.
Today I saw a bicycle-vehicle collision where the car driver didn't shoulder check and turned into a bike travelling alongside. The bike was also electrified and the cyclist was on a food delivery. The cycler could not move at all afterward, even when put on a stretcher and put in the ambulance. If you drive a vehicle, please shoulder check for bikes. For cyclists – and people on stand-up electric scooters and other forms of urban electrified transportation like them – please research the best helmets and wear them. I was part of creating the environmental sociology comprehensive exam at the University of Toronto Department of Sociology. I've uploaded the reading list here. 
In a class with Dr. Robin Gray at the Department of Sociology of the University of Toronto, we were tasked with creating a list that could be used to update a comprehensive exam in our study areas. I focused on the environmental sociology comprehensive exam, proposing a list that could be added as a section to that exam. I have edited the assignment so that it flows more naturally as a resource here.
When I was working as a biologist with Scott Nielsen at the University of Alberta, I worked in the Livingstone Range in Treaty 7 Territory, Southwestern Alberta.
I took this photo in the traditional homeland of the Niitsítpiis-stahkoii (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᐨᑯᐧ ᓴᐦᖾᐟ) (Blackfoot / Niitsítapi ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ), Ktunaxa ɁamakɁis (https://www.ktunaxa.org/) and the Tsuu T'ina (https://tsuutinanation.com/) (according to native-land.ca). I post this photo here under a Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International creative commons license, but admit that it is strange for a settler to give any kind of license for a photo of stolen land. |
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