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When you say, “Oh I run, but I’m not a runner,” it’s like when people say, “Oh I write, but I’m not a writer.” You’re doing it. You just do it and it does get better and there are simple things you can do to make it easier.
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Kate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
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Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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The sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
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The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.
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“The green path takes far more work to even recognize—it takes bushwhacking.”
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Clinton Crockett Peters discusses his new book, PANDORA’S GARDEN.
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I wanted to talk to someone who might have heard the last animal at the end of its species’ five-million-year run on earth.
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Despite its title, Oceanic is much more than a love letter to the ocean.
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To truly know a land is to become it—to embody its storms in your bones, taste its dark soil beneath your nails, know the tangled history of the people who walked before you.
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Our American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
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Turn off the television and pick up a book. You’ll feel better for it, we promise.
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In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the author shares what she learned studying sea life on the island Mo’orea.
...moreFor Longreads, Jaime Green writes about the narrative styles employed in exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History. Green focuses on the work of one of the AMNH’s directors, Albert E. Parr, and his efforts to connect the science of the museum with the lives of its visitors: Rather than showing one isolated capsule, […]
...moreFor Grist, Aura Bogado writes on recent developments in localized action against climate change. Bogado profiles the work of WE ACT (West Harlem Environmental Action) and its work in moving forward with a city-approved climate action plan to benefit these primarily black and Latino neighborhoods.
...moreMartin Kirk writes for Aeon on the paradoxical connection between economic growth and eliminating poverty. Kirk illustrates that increasing the size of the economic pie, by spending the world’s finite resources, with no change in distribution to impoverished populations, will not only not eradicate poverty in the near future, but will only accelerate the depletion […]
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Poet Jenny Johnson discusses her forthcoming debut collection, In Full Velvet, phobias, courage, the dual consciousness of queer lovers, and what it means to belong.
...moreSuzanne Jacobs writes for Grist about the work of philosopher/technologist Koert van Mensvoort and his new project, the Next Nature Network. Mensvoort’s work seeks to redefine the human civilization’s relationship with nature, a distinctly modern relationship which Jacobs describes as: …[a world] where wilderness no longer refers exclusively to those parts of the planet untouched […]
...moreBen Mauk interviews Pinar Yoldas for Guernica about her ecological-themed visual art, part of a style Yoldas has dubbed “eco-futurist” (rather than the more current trend of “cli-fi” art). Where some environmentally-conscious writing and art views humanity’s effects on nature as the end of an ecosystem, Yoldas uses the state of an ecosystem as a […]
...moreAldo Leopold, ecologist and author of Sand County Almanac took such detailed notes each morning from his back porch that researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created his “resurrected soundscape” with digital bird calls. “Leopold recognized that you can get a pretty good sense of land health by listening to the soundscape,” [wildlife ecology profesor Stan] Temple […]
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