Indigenous people are at the forefront of conserving biodiversity. Their skills, knowledge, and practices offer essential lessons in communal living with the more-than-human world. This is a model we desperately need to confront the unfolding climate crisis. Despite this, their stories have often be
As If We Weren’t on Fire a golden shovel after “Barn Burning” by Kristin Bock way too far out into the fields of the west, where the truest religion is smoke a fire still burns a ghost walks up to a mare & as the ghost walked up the mare began to rise up […]
Do seasons have memories of their own? Recent research suggests that monsoons may possess a kind of memory, switching on and off between dry and wet seasons. Science is catching up to what poetry and myth have long intuited: that weather, like us, remembers. For centuries, poets saw in it the dram
Can a weekend of music really change how someone thinks about the planet? There is a history of music festivals providing spaces for necessary change and revolution. Sustainability is becoming central to how festivals are designed, planned and operated. Our associate editor Anna Borrie talks with V
“If male culture rests its foundations on man’s control over nature, then the two bodies, that of the woman and that of the animal, are united. I explored this solidarity through the wildlife hospitals, where I met women engaged in an extraordinary operation of restitution: giving back to the
“How can we feel so nostalgic for a place we’ve never truly lived? And ache for a language we half understand? And feel any kind of reverence for a land whose politicians exiled us, even though the rivers run in our veins?” Annie Mirza There’s a garden I’ve never seen before, but I
Eyes Closed In The Backyard Aspens rattle like a snake; I will hold my ground. A quail trills and skitters; quickly, under the bush. The neighbors’ dog and a motorcycle bark in the distance. Soil smells of earthworm and mushroom, the air a thick inhale of pollen, a hint of lilac and sleepy