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Edward Carver: Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested in Greenland, May Face Extradition to Japan

The famed campaigner was en route to intercept a new 370-foot Japanese factory whaling ship in the North Pacific when Danish police in Greenland made the surprise arrest, citing an international warrant issued by Japan. 

July 24, 2024 · 3 Comments

Aina Marzia: “Parable of the Sower” Is Now, Says Gen Z

Imminent drought, rising sea waters, destructive borders, a vanishing middle class, “smart drugs,” Big Pharma, privatized public schools and cities, and a governing body with the slogan “Make America Great Again.”

July 23, 2024 · 3 Comments

Joseph Winters: Goodbye, ‘soy boys.’ Hello, swole vegans.

Non-animal foods are more than adequate sources of protein for everyone, including professional athletes.

July 20, 2024 · 2 Comments

Sarah Mosquera: Rewilding the American Serengeti

A tribal college internship aims to train the next generation of stewards for a recovering prairie ecosystem—its land, animals, and people.

July 18, 2024 · Leave a comment

Sean Sexton: Worth

I’ve wasted these days in the darkening hurry of the hours,
let myself—dryhanded, and ignorant—determine one aim in
deference to another.

July 18, 2024 · 10 Comments

Phillip Terman: My Blossoming Everything

It is red raspberries in a circular thicket of thorns.
Who are you, my beloved? My sweetness,
My swallowtail, my infinite youth?

July 14, 2024 · 3 Comments

James Crews: Berrypicking On the Dexter Trail

I see how the bulldozers that disfigured
this land, and removed the mossy,
old-growth maples, also made room
for black raspberry bushes to fill out 
and fruit, ripeness reaching for my hands.

July 11, 2024 · 8 Comments

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

July 5, 2024 · 6 Comments

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Meadow

As if, with open palms, 
I could pull this beauty
inside me and carry it with me
until I give it to you—

July 3, 2024 · 12 Comments

Susan Yeargin: How to keep yourself safe during expected heat waves this summer

A heat wave can pose risks for anyone who spends time outside, whether they’re runners, people who walk or cycle to work, outdoor workers or kids playing sports.

July 3, 2024 · 5 Comments

Vicky Bond: How Humans Get Sick From Other Animals

The growing emergence of diseases from animals suggests that we need to rethink our reliance on animals as a food source.

June 29, 2024 · 2 Comments

Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

June 28, 2024 · 13 Comments

Baron Wormser: Greening

The contest between Trump and Biden represents an allegory come to life of the two forms of consciousness: one candidate who espouses a derisive and divisive let-it-rip individualism that is indifferent to, among other things, truth, and one candidate who has spent a lifetime ministering to the needs of the Corporate State.

June 23, 2024 · 3 Comments

John J. Berger: A National Climate Action Plan

Heat waves of exceptional severity and duration are now occurring simultaneously in many areas of the world.

June 21, 2024 · Leave a comment

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