Land & Line

Lexie and I started where a lot of good conversations start — with dogs. And like most of our conversations we quickly dove into the latest on policy, climate, and what we're noticing in the outdoor space. Questions that came up in this phone chat like what does it actually mean to be outside, and what are we really after when we go? Why can't you protect public lands without naming the cattle ind...

After I hung up with Dennis, one thing he said stayed with me. Dennis is 88 years old and has been racing pigeons since he was fourteen. During our conversation I asked him what he had learned after doing this for so long. His answer was simple. He said that over time he realized pigeons aren’t machines. Later in the conversation he also said something else that kept echoing in my mind:“If they di...

It was a normal day. I parked at the LA Zoo and took my dogs out for a hike. The lot is huge and I had parked off in an empty section. When I got back, there was this older guy parked right next to me. Tailgate down. Just standing there. I put my dogs in the car when something caught my eye — a flicker of movement. At that point I see the really short wooden crates. I could see through the mesh on...

Afterthoughts from my conversation with Constance Founder of SheShredz about how we can support each other towards holding corporations accountable to do better for people and planet. Get full access to Land and Line at landandline.substack.com/subscribe

Tahoe barely opened before Christmas. Resorts are scrambling for revenue. The Olympics are running on fake snow. In this conversation, Constance and I talk about what winter actually feels like right now inside ski culture. Not the marketing version. The real one. We get into snowmaking, slushy race courses, gear wearing out faster, and whether season passes are about to get even more expensive. W...

This episode is where patterns start to come into focus. Not through theory, but through repetition. Moving through industry spaces, conversations, programs, and events that claimed to be climate-adjacent, but consistently redirected away from climate action and toward growth of the outdoor economy instead. In this session, I talk about what it felt like to keep running into the same friction. The...

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This started as an Instagram story. I’m reading it out loud because it felt wrong to keep it fragmented. It’s coming from years of noticing how much of what we buy, wear, believe, and repeat is shaped by systems we’re rarely invited to question. The clothes. The food. The stories we’re told are educational or authoritative. Even what we’re allowed to hear often shows up already approved by the sam...

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