Daja E. Henry: Environmental Justice Activists in Memphis Are Finally Turning the Tide
Black women, particularly mothers, are leading efforts to treat people currently harmed by toxic neighborhoods and prevent future damage.
Carolyn Miller: Street Trees of San Francisco
despite everything
that keeps going wrong—the ginkgos,
opening tiny green fans.
James C. Nieh: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
Derrick Z. Jackson: EPA Can Save Lives with Tighter Protections on Fine Particulate Pollution
Globally, fine particulate pollution kills at least 4.2 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and perhaps as many as 5.7 million a year…
Video: Adjany Costa | A Roadmap for Indigenous communities to reclaim stewardship of the land
Conservation efforts should center those who know the land best, enabling them to tailor solutions to their unique environmental, social and economic realities.
Edward Harkness: Pelicans Diving
They skim so close to waves
they must themselves be waves.
Kim Ports Parsons: I Can’t Write a Poem with a Gun
a fox steps lightly into the yard,
and shakes off the dew from the meadow,
and cocks her head, nose quivering
Derrick Z. Jackson: Ethylene Oxide Adds to Toxic Burden for Memphis Residents
Children are particularly sensitive to ethylene oxide exposure as it can damage their DNA.
Video: Black Mountain College and Charles Olson
the thing you’re after
may lie around the bend
of the nest (second, time slain, the bird! the bird!
Christopher J. Preston: Wolf restoration in Colorado shows how humans are rethinking their relationships with wild animals
Recovering animals encounter a world that is markedly different from the one in which they declined, especially in terms of how people think about wildlife.
Carolyn Miller: Rapture
When they said the world was coming to an end,
I thought about my brother, his long limbs,
his good shoulders and thick hair, his small
white teeth, his beautiful feet at the end
of the hospital bed.
Video: Vegan Poem
At the current turning point in our relationship with the earth, Federico García Lorca’s vision of the injustice in our mistreatment of animals is even more poignant.
Marie Kacouchia: Explore African Cuisines
I make it a point of honor to use ingredients that are accessible everywhere and by nearly everyone. Then I try to show that with a few spices, it is possible to totally transform everyday foods and give them a new dimension.
Robinson Jeffers: The Treasure
That silence is the thing, this noise a found word for it;
interjection, a jump of the breath at that silence
