Brian Holmes is an essayist, artist, and activist working on political ecology. Returning to the US after twenty years in Europe, he helped form the group Deep Time Chicago, which uses earth system science to explore the markers of global ecological change in local institutions and daily life. Holmes also collaborates with Casa Río in Argentina, lending his mapmaking skills to the larger network of Humedales sin fronteras (Wetlands without borders). His recent projects can be viewed at https://ecotopia.today