Sacramento is a rolling grid of suburban sprawl and this is not the California that anyone loves. We call ourselves the West, but who would know we were anywhere near beautiful inside all this landlocked separation? We breathe in the exhale of a city. That thick cloud that settles in the low ele
In the land of my forefathers, I explore key sites related to speleology, searching for what Mircea Eliade describes as a religious experience of autochthony. This sense of divine intuition allows one to feel part of something that stretches across time and space—something that transcends both sci
If you ever gaze at the sky and feel that everything is going to be alright, you are practising soft fascination. As animals, we have evolved guided by the cues of the natural world, listening to the silence of silhouettes and observing patterns and fractals. The undemanding beauty of nature restore
Aspen Everett explores the boundary between wildness and the man-made, existing in the ecotone of artefact and novel ecos. The poems challenge the reader to take a closer look at common flowers, to bestow them again with wonder and reverence, to follow rivers beyond the well-laid paths of man, in
Understanding the uneasy balance between agriculture and migration in Italy underscores how environmental justice and social justice are deeply entwined. To demand organic farming or permaculture without first ensuring dignified labour is to imagine a limited reality that does not address the root c
From the alphabets to the words, if we trace the roots of our lingual tree, we find that every inspiration arises from nature. Lingual symbols and sounds are, perhaps, interpretations of a world that has spoken to human consciousness since the beginning of time. At what point does a language becom
Dioxin, cadmium, arsenic, lead… what happens over time when the human body is exposed to these elements, and what happens to the land? In the late 1970s, toxic waste sites like Love Canal and Valley of the Drums became household names when major court battles for environmental protections do