This photo essay bears witness to a time of grief and reclamation that arose with the death of George Floyd only to deepen with the loss of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, Georgia. Artist and photographer Sheila Pree Bright shares intimate moments of mourning and inspiration in the Black Lives Matter movement, images that evoke the civil rights era and its leaders.
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.
Now available! Volume II of our print edition speaks to the multiple crises and opportunities unfolding around us: plague, extinctions, and loneliness grip us ever tighter even as they affirm our connection with the living world.
Earthrise tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts, the film recounts their experiences and memories and explores the beauty, awe, and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space. This iconic image had a powerful impact on the astronauts and the world, offering a perspective that transcended national, political, and religious boundaries. Told 50 years later, Earthrise compels us to remember this shift and to reflect on the Earth as a shared home.
A Pin Oak tree in Portland, Maine, invites a writer and an artist into the deep mystery of time.
Following a nine-thousand-year journey, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the ancient technology embedded in our relationship with corn.
For the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day in 2020, Paul Elie traced the literary history of the environmental movement from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. Though the plight of the natural world has become a fixture of collective consciousness, he wonders if we will live up to the promise of unified action on behalf of the Earth.
David Haskell invites us into the unique, and sometimes surprising, aromas of eleven different species of trees.
Sanctuaries of Silence is an immersive listening journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America. A virtual reality film by Emergence Magazine staff filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
David Haskell enters the intricate and generative soundscape of the world of birds, inviting us to join in a practice of cross-species listening as a bridge to kinship.
When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that reclaims a vital and ancient relationship between trees and women.
In this multimedia piece, poet Forrest Gander and artist Katie Holten collaborate to evoke a language of the redwood forests of Northern California.
On the grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau, the Drokpa people are working to maintain and restore their traditional nomadic way of life, even as they face harsh resettlement policies, desertification, and modernization. Diane Barker offers an intimate portrait of four of these families.
Following a month-long journey through the Andes of Peru, this multimedia travelogue explores the cultural significance of papas nativas.
