Kelpie Wilson is the environmental editor and writer for t r u t h o u t. Her articles and essays have been published by Orion, AlterNet, Tidepool, Wild Earth, High Country News, The Progressive, Hope Dance and Sentient Times. She was interviewed as part of the New Dimensions Radio Deep Ecology series and profiled as a diarist in Grist Magazine. She also does technical writing for the solar power industry.
Kelpie Wilson's first novel, Primal Tears, has been published by North Atlantic Books and is available wherever books are sold. See her web site www.kelpiewilson.com for more information.
Kelpie has had a varied career in engineering and environmental politics. After training and working as an auto mechanic she graduated with honors from CSU, Chico in 1987 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
She worked for a small R&D firm designing Stirling cycle cryocoolers on a Department of Defense contract, but was soon called to join up with Earth First! She was a key organizer of the Earth First! Exxon Valdez campaign in Alaska (1989) and of the Redwood Summer campaign in California (1990).
From 1991 to 2003 she worked for the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots forest protection group, serving as executive director from 1997-2001. During that time she tripled the size of the organization and commissioned the first comprehensive study of biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion. She also helped lead the campaign to create a one million-acre Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Monument.
Wilson lives with her husband in a solar-powered home in the Siskiyou Mountains.
Columns by Kelpie Wilson
Why More Food Is Not the Answer
April 22, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | Dance of the Oil Fairies
April 2, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | The Rising Price of Coal
March 21, 2008
Coming Soon - The Carbon Economy
March 4, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | Improving Our Green Job Prospects
February 15, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | Abortion and the Earth
January 29, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | Detroit Parties On, Republicans Approve
January 24, 2008
O Little Town in Oregon
January 1, 2008
Kelpie Wilson | On Energy and Climate: Lead or Get Out of the Way
December 20, 2007
Kelpie Wilson | The Widening Chasm on Energy
December 11, 2007
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