Baron Wormser: The Dark Sky | Politics and Its Discontents
It may be that the love that lives within us cannot be turned toward something as large and seemingly abstract as the earth. But the earth isn’t abstract at all. Each moment is local and real and is always a place where we might begin.
Video: Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one?
Hannah Ritchie makes an evidence-based case for why we have a meaningful chance to solve global environmental problems for the first time in human history.
Robert Wrigley: A Similar While
The window-walloped chickadee that burst
from the hollow of her hands at her chest
startled her
Stan Cox: A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule
The decision in favor of Montana’s youth is inspiring more lawsuits across the country.
Chard deNiord: To the Muse
You wakened me to a dream of waking
in which I approached you and sang
your name.
Michael T. Young: How to Survive the End of the World
these strangers random as bits of sea glass
collected and admired
Kai Coggin: Essence
and did you know these tiny sprouts
these little leaves and baby greens
already hold the heavy flavors of their final selves?
Julia Conley: ‘Climate Breakdown Has Begun.’ Summer 2023 Hottest on Record
Climate scientists across the world have been alarmed over the past three months by fast-spreading wildfires, prolonged and deadly heatwaves, and numerous shattered heat records across the northern hemisphere.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Little Farmer
how right he was about slowness,
the path of sunlight through leaves,
how dirt has always befriended me,
Gail Langstroth: Two Poems
A split-shadow on the granite wall
shapes fronds into dark wings.
Rose Mary Boehm: Three poems
Fernando pushed out his boat.
Young, brown, muscular and carefree.
The birds screeched in anticipation
of his return. Sea lions pretended
not to notice.
John Burroughs: Waiting
Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea;
I rave no more ‘gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
Sean Sexton: Not Yet the Rise
Those five trees across the way I named Pleiades—till
one more fell to earth
Reynard Loki: How to Fix Our Food System
The facts are clear and they are shocking: Factory farming is unhealthy for consumers, dangerous for workers, and devastating for the environment, and it is the largest cause of animal cruelty in the history of mankind.
