Jarid Manos is author of Ghetto Plainsman, which is being made into a movie, and the upcoming collection of short stories The Sun and the Water. He is also founder of the non-profit organization Great Plains Restoration Council and the Ecological Health initiatives Restoration Not Incarceration™ and Shark Therapy™. He has built his life’s work out of the realization that “the violence we do to the Earth mirrors the violence we do to each other and often accept into ourselves.”