Puffling
Watch FilmIn this coming-of-age documentary, we follow two teenagers on a small island off the coast of Iceland who rescue young puffins while grappling with their own futures in a changing world.
Note from the Editors
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
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Our Annual Print Edition
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Stories for Earth Week
Shifting Landscape Film Series
Engagement Guide
Dive deeper into our four-part Shifting Landscapes film series with our new Engagement Guide, which invites you to reflect, discuss, and embark on a practice exploring the films’ themes.
Reflection
Discussion
Practice
ENGAGE
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A Ten-Part Leadership Course
With Spiritual Ecology Facilitators
September 17 – November 19, 2025
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and Songs
In celebration of Earth Day, this episode invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. “When the Earth Started to Sing,” by biologist David G. Haskell, combines human speech with more-than-human voices to immerse your senses in the connective power of sound across deep time. “Sanctuaries of Silence,” an adaptation of our virtual reality experience featuring acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, brings you to the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America—and guides you through the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise.
This Week’s Podcast
In celebration of Earth Day, this episode invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. “When the Earth Started to Sing,” by biologist David G. Haskell, combines human speech with more-than-human voices to immerse your senses in the connective power of sound across deep time. “Sanctuaries of Silence,” an adaptation of our virtual reality experience featuring acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, brings you to the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America—and guides you through the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise.
ENGAGE
The Song of the Seasons
Devon, England
June 26 – 29, 2025
The Song of the Seasons
Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US
May 23 – 26, 2025
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