“Tectonic Shifts with William deBuys”

an episode of the Bill Kalmenson podcast
Rebel without Applause
posted on Nov 26 2024

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The Given Child

The American Scholar, June 3, 2024
“To what lengths would a mother go to ensure her family’s survival in a remote Himalayan village?”

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Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for Earth in an Age of Loss

Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for Earth in an Age of Loss, Text Matters, Number 12, 2022.

“The old metaphor of the canary in the coal mine has lost its edge. When applied to global warming and climate change, the relevance of its parts has become reversed…”

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“Working with Environmental Grief”

"Working with Environmental Grief,” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, April 8, 2022.

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“A Long Walk into an Imperiled Future,” TomDispatch.com, October, 19, 2021. 

Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today, that superb writer and naturalist William deBuys returns to TomDispatch with a piece that offers a sense of his new book, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss. As Bill McKibben, a man whose word I would always take, writes, “Bill deBuys is one of the planet’s great observers, and this may be his masterwork — a story of an exploration of Nepal, but also of the present and future of this planet. Caring for that world, and all that’s in it, is necessary, painful, and as he makes clear, exquisitely beautiful work.”

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The Good Neighbor | New Mexico Magazine

Immersed in northern New Mexico culture, author William deBuys has emerged as one of the region’s strongest storytellers, conservationists, and defenders.

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Vernon Bailey and the Pecos High Country

eNewMexican.com, May 21, 2021

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Washing Feet in Dolpo

The American Scholar, June 7, 2021

“On a medical mission at the top of the world, finding a healing dose of cheerful stoicism.”

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How to Hijack an Election

TomDispatch, January 19, 2017

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