Rebecca Solnit is a writer, critic, historian, environmental journalist, and environmental activist who has worked as an art critic and land rights activist. Her politics are progressive and she puts them into practice as an activist by protesting against nuclear testing, advocating for what she calls “global justice” in “the occupy movement,” and marching to reclaim the night and the streets as safe times and places, especially for women and people of colour. Her progressive politics occurs under the overarching umbrella of the “rainbow coalition” for equal rights and social justice for all, irrespective of sexuality, gender, place, “race,” ethnicity, ability, colour, class, or creed. She also critiques the landscape wars of the American west, including in Yosemite National Park and its photography, and the Nevada nuclear bomb-testing site and its photography. She has theorized a new nature photography of the exquisite that celebrates the neglected and out of the way. She also celebrates the life of cities, such as Paris, an iconic modern city, and New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She advocates for walking and storytelling of people and place, especially in the climate crisis. She contributes many vital facets to progressive political ecology.