Don Christoff is pursuing environmental science at Oregon State University and environmental studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. A graduate of Arizona State University, he is the creator of Give Earth A Chance, a serious game–based learning project that helps communities explore what it means to live cooperatively within the living Earth.
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Us and Them: The Curious Case of Rights and Personhood
When that truth is remembered, the language of rights will fall silent, and what remains will be the only thing that ever mattered: the unbroken relationship among all that exists.
March 16, 2026
Breathe – The Measure of Enough
Every inhale signifies participation, every exhale, accountability. Maybe this is the true measure of enough: letting the breath of life circulate freely through all that exists.
January 22, 2026
Time: the delusion of emptiness
The world does not ask us to fill its emptiness. It asks us to notice that it has been full all along and to act with the respect that such fullness deserves.
December 11, 2025
Let’s Talk About Communism
To live justly, then, is to live in common. Not through coercion or conformity, but through recognition — that our survival depends on the health of the shared systems we inhabit. Without that awareness, every revolution remains partial, every justice incomplete.
October 21, 2025
