“Tectonic Shifts with William deBuys”
an episode of the Bill Kalmenson podcast
Rebel without Applause
posted on Nov 26 2024
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?”
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline, A Conversation with William deBuys, Text Matters, Number 12, 2022.
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…”
SOIL STORIES recording with author Bill deBuys
August 2, 2022
SOIL STORIES recording with author Bill deBuys
New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group
https://www.nmhealthysoil.org/portfolio/soil-stories-with-author-bill-debuys/
“Finding Grace Amid the Grief” | Tricycle Interview
July 31, 2022
“Finding Grace Amid the Grief”
Tricycle
https://tricycle.org/article/trail-to-kanjiroba/
“Welcome to the Pyrocene: New Mexico Megafires Mark a Turning Point” | TomDispatch.com
July 21, 2022
TomDispatch.com
“Welcome to the Pyrocene: New Mexico Megafires Mark a Turning Point”
https://tomdispatch.com/new-mexicos-megafires-mark-a-turning-point/
Video Interview with Bill McKibben
April 21, 2022
Virginia Festival of the Book
Interview with Bill McKibben
“Working with Environmental Grief”
"Working with Environmental Grief,” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, April 8, 2022.
Author and Conservationist William deBuys Explains Why We Should Be Building Arks
"Author and Conservationist William deBuys Explains Why We Should Be Building Arks" in The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/santa-fe-himalayas-william-debuys-b2022426.html
Zen in the Mountains: Bill Nevins Interviews Bill deBuys
"Zen in the Mountains: Bill Nevins Interviews Bill deBuys" in Mountain Journal
https://mountainjournal.org/new-book-by-bill-debuys-touts-earth-as-healer-in-uncertain-times
“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.”
Conversation with Laura Paskus concerning The Trail to Kanjiroba
On “New Mexico in Focus,” PBS/ KNME, 7-8 pm MDT, October 22, 2021.
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.
Nuevo Mexico Profundo Interview Series: William deBuys
We present an interview by Frank Graziano with William deBuys, as part of an oral biography project conducted by Nuevo Mexico Profundo, gathering a cross section of personalities and histories from New Mexico.
Trail to Kanjiroba | Kirkus Reviews
DeBuys brings many of the most appealing attributes of memoir and travel and nature writing to bear on humanity’s most significant existential crisis. In 61 brief chapters, which read like travel journal entries, deBuys weaves together geological and evolutionary histories and studies of the planet’s peoples and biodiversity within the context of his participation with the Nomads Clinic, which provides medical care to communities in Nepal’s remote Upper Dolpo region.... A pleasing ray of positivity regarding the planet’s present and future.
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.”
Mountain and Prairie
William deBuys – Sage of the Southwest
Mountain and Prairie’s podcast interview of William deBuys, renowned writer and conservationist, who is known as one of the most influential thinkers in the modern-day American West. October, 2019.
Orion
Together Apart is an Orion web series of letters from isolation. The third conversation is a series of emails between Pulitzer Prize finalist author William deBuys (A Great Aridness, The Last Unicorn, The Walk) and bestselling author and fly-fisherman David James Duncan (The Brothers K, The River Why, My Story as Told by Water). April, 2020.
The New York Times
The ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Crowd Wants Access to this Arctic Reserve, July 18, 2019
“Many junkies, before hitting bottom, stoop low enough to steal their mothers’ jewels. That’s what’s happening at a national scale on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska…”
The Colorado
A Murat Eyuboglu film, inspired by deBuys’s 1999 book Salt Dreams. deBuys is credited as co-screen writer (with Eyuboglu) and lyricist. the concert version debuted on April 12, 2016 in Houston followed by a May 18, 2016 performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film’s screening schedule is at www.projectcolorado.com.
Hotter and Dryer: Life in 21st-Century Southern California
Lecture at California State University, Fullerton, March 20, 2013
Interview with Ari Phillips
Author William deBuys On Climate Change In The Southwest
ThinkProgress, July 16, 2012