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During this pandemic, we are publishing new content that explores the deeper themes and questions emerging at this time. These stories reveal new opportunities to deeply connect with each other and the living world—in the midst of this crisis and beyond.
by Anna Badkhen
by Fred Bahnson
by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
by Gabriela Torres Ruiz
by J. Drew Lanham
by Alexis Wright
by Kalyanee Mam
by Lucy Jones
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
by Erik Jacobs, Photography by Dina Rudick
by Michael McCarthy
by Terry Tempest Williams
by Jason Jaacks
by Katie Holten
by Tristan McConnell
by Boyce Upholt
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
An Interview with Sandor Katz
by Jake Skeets
by Andrew Hinton, Owen Ó Súilleabháin & David Whyte
by Sheila Pree Bright
by Taylor Graham, Palmer Morse, and Matt Mikkelsen
by Sanjay Rawal with A-dae Romero-Briones
by Lucy Jones
An Interview with David Abram
by Gina Rae La Cerva
by Joanna Macy
by CMarie Fuhrman
by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
by Bathsheba Demuth
by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
by Lia Purpura
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.
Adapted from our award-winning multimedia story, “Language Keepers,” this six-part podcast series explores the struggle for Indigenous language survival in California. Along this journey, we meet and learn from Tolowa Dee-ni’, Karuk, Wukchumni, and Kawaiisu communities who are working to revitalize their Native languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation.
The Atomic Tree is a virtual reality journey into the memories of a 400-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.
A route of eighty-eight Buddhist temples in Japan, the Shikoku Pilgrimage takes modern-day pilgrims across an ancient, storied landscape, inviting us to reflect on the relevance of the spiritual quest today.
Losing a language means more than the disappearance of words. This six-part film and multimedia experience follows four Indigenous communities who are revitalizing their languages and cultures.
Inspired by monastic cuisine, this cookbook honors the seasons with twenty-eight recipes to celebrate spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
In this multimedia piece, poet Forrest Gander and artist Katie Holten collaborate to evoke a language of the redwood forests of Northern California. Forrest’s words are translated into an alphabet of sprouting seeds and growing spores.
Following a month-long journey through the Andes Mountains in Peru, this multimedia travelogue explores the flavors, varieties, and cultural significance of Peru’s native potatoes, papas nativas.
by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
by Hala Alyan
by Aletheia Casey
by Crystal Wilkinson
Film by Jeremy Seifert, Essay by Fred Bahnson
by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
by Andri Snær Magnason and Anní Ólafsdóttir
by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
by Bear Guerra
by Jake Skeets
Film by Jeremy Seifert, Essay by Fred Bahnson
by Hala Alyan
by Aletheia Casey
by Crystal Wilkinson
by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
by David Farrier
by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
by Bear Guerra
by Jake Skeets
by Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul
by Roy Scranton
by Martin Shaw
by Andri Snær Magnason and Anní Ólafsdóttir
by George Prochnik
An Interview with David Abram
by Kalyanee Mam
by Paul Kingsnorth
by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
by Rowen White
In five steps, this practice invites you to immerse yourself in nightfall. Whether you live in the city or in a place where the outdoors is more accessible, this practice is a guide for settling into the expansive wonder of the dark.
Aroma is the primary language of trees. They talk with molecules, conspiring with one another, beckoning fungi, scolding insects, and whispering to microbes.
Created by David G. Haskell, these practices invite you to open yourself up to the sensory experience of listening to bird language.
This pilgrimage practice invites you to embark on a journey to a sacred site, beginning where you are and arriving with every step.
What is at stake in a world where silence has gone extinct?
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by Sheila Pree Bright
by Sanjay Rawal with A-dae Romero-Briones
by CMarie Fuhrman
by Bathsheba Demuth
by Joanna Macy
by David Abram
by Bear Guerra
by Lia Purpura
by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
by David Farrier
by Paul Kingsnorth
An Interview with David Quammen
by Roy Scranton
Film by Jeremy Seifert, Essay by Fred Bahnson
by Crystal Wilkinson
by Kalyanee Mam
by Jake Skeets
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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