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.
Recent Stories
Breath-Space and Seed-Time
Practical Reverence
Gourds
Dendrochronology
Detour
Unborn and Undying
On Time, Mystery, and Kinship
Time Thinks of Time
Wrinkled Time
Butterfly
There Is No Show More Beautiful Than This
ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste
Taste of the Land
Documenting Shifting Landscapes
Memory, Praise, and Spirit
The Last Ice Age
Aloha ‘Āina
Sun House
The Nightingale’s Song
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
ENGAGE
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)
Sharpham Trust, Devon, England
Online: April 30 – June 4, 2025
In-person: June 18 – 21, 2025
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (US)
Whidbey Institute, Washington, US
Online: August 6 – September 10, 2025
In-person: September 25 – 28, 2025
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
The World Is a Prism, Not a Window
In this episode, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her book The Light Eaters and explores what it might mean if we embraced plant intelligence within the frame of Western science. She shares a smorgasbord of new findings around the capabilities of plants—from roots that can sense the sound of running water to flowers memorizing the timing of pollinators’ visits—and wonders how a growing awareness of more-than-human intelligence can upend the structures and hierarchies we have placed around living beings, ourselves included. Talking about the politics of language in the field of botany, shedding her own plant blindness, and how we can widen our scientific imaginations to perceive intelligence in beings without brains, Zoë probes what it will take for us to let plants into the realm of our ethical consideration.
This Week’s Podcast
In this episode, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her book The Light Eaters and explores what it might mean if we embraced plant intelligence within the frame of Western science. She shares a smorgasbord of new findings around the capabilities of plants—from roots that can sense the sound of running water to flowers memorizing the timing of pollinators’ visits—and wonders how a growing awareness of more-than-human intelligence can upend the structures and hierarchies we have placed around living beings, ourselves included. Talking about the politics of language in the field of botany, shedding her own plant blindness, and how we can widen our scientific imaginations to perceive intelligence in beings without brains, Zoë probes what it will take for us to let plants into the realm of our ethical consideration.
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
