Michael T. Young: Honeybees
I’ve felt myself changed simply walking into shade along a street; I’ve come suddenly upon the scent of snapdragon or heard a distant car crash and found my every thought … Continue reading
Andrena Zawinski: Singing Bird Haibun
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.” Basho . It is not a steely-eyed egret nor heft of pelican but just a singing bird that … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Rising Sea Levels Come At Steeper Cost
Rising sea levels bring the prospect of more violence and expense. Four new studies confirm the menace of the waves. LONDON, 2 March, 2018 – Delay in slowing rising sea … Continue reading
Video: Fractal — 4k StormLapse
. In this beautiful montage of moving images collected over ten years, director Chad Cowan and composer Arvo Pärt capture the drama and poetry of weather. About this film, Cowan says: “Big … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: Heading home
This is and is not a Wendell Berry novel,
a Mary Oliver poem. This is one block of a California Gold Rush
town with a bloody, tree-less history, known mostly now for pot
and a kind of rueful quaintness, where people you love
have died and been buried, have been born.
Walter Bargen: This Falling Away Age
We are at that age when any moment all words are last words. Some might argue that it could be any age and they are right: Golden (probably not), Enlightenment … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Terracide
Think of President Trump and his administration as a den of thieves. There is, of course, the obvious thievery: what they will in the end, as with the recently passed … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Revolt of the Robots
How we can find meaning, purpose and pride when the workplace no longer offers them? Why bother designing robots when you can reduce human beings to machines? Last week, Amazon … Continue reading
Betsy Hartmann: Climate Change and Privileged Despair
People can and do cooperate in times of environmental disaster and stress—why isn’t that part of the dominant narrative? Doomsday panic is as American as apple pie, though the precise … Continue reading
Video: The Story of Bottled Water
. . This short animated video tells the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows … Continue reading
Gary Snyder: Smokey the Bear Sutra
. Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled elements and … Continue reading
Eve Andrews: Climate Strange
The eco-obsessed often get labeled as weirdos — even by their peers. Weird, however, is looking better and better. Alec Mitchell doesn’t like praise for what he’s doing. Not for … Continue reading
Elizabeth Boakes: Biodiversity isn’t just pretty — it future-proofs our world
A small boy hauls enthusiastically on his fishing rod. The line flies up and a needle-spined fish strikes him in the eye. Desperate to stay outdoors, he ignores the pain, … Continue reading
