New book!

5 January 2026

Bringing together my last seven years of learning, my book titled Environmental Communication and Conciliation: Exploring Arts-Based and Indigenous Approaches explores ways to question, dismantle and reimagine deeply entrenched structures and systems that are harming our common home, the Earth, and Her First Peoples. This tome is the textual sibling of the feature film, Shih (Interconnectedness), celebrated on the previous or next page of this blog, depending on how you see the chronology.

In recognizing the need to address and redress these twin forms of human colonization together, I seek different ways to see, know and be in the world than staying on the destructive, one-way path of business-as-usual. I explore three ‘alternative’ ways to engage and create new worlds together—environmentalist, arts-based and Indigenous—and bring them into dialogue towards improving relationships with planet and people in the emerging notion I callenvironmental conciliation.

This interdisciplinary work touches on some key ideas in environmental philosophy, arts-based inquiry and Indigenous relations—and their complex interconnections—en route to a sweeping, multi-channel conversation with Indigenous teachers, scholars, artists and communicators, and others.

At its heart, this book surfaces and celebrates our “living and being well in relation.” To that end, I follow a path of self-locating, seeing the whole, relating, and connecting with the land as we work together through different approaches to becoming good ancestors on a healthier planet and in a kinder, fairer society.

Environmental Communication and Conciliation: Exploring Arts-Based and Indigenous Approaches is slated for publication by Bloomsbury worldwide on February 19, 2026 following a release in the USA in December 2025. It’s part of a series called Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene. For more info, please check my illustrious publisher’s website and perhaps a local library. You can preview the first few pages here.