Joanna Macy discusses her personal journey into the worlds of activism, Buddhism, and deep ecology.
As she bears witness to the decomposing body of a deer, Lia Purpura considers the forces of restoration at play: the processes which transform bodies from one state to another and the beginnings that emerge from endings.
As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert today's voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery.
Singer Sam Lee speaks about the transformative experience of creating songs in collaboration with nightingales and the space for communion that is opened with silence.
Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.
In honor of Earth Week we’re revisiting our conversation from last year with Dr. Suzanne Simard, the renowned scientist whose groundbreaking research, widely known as “the wood-wide web,” demonstrated how trees communicate and exchange resources through networks of mycorrhizal fungi within the soil. In this interview, Suzanne speaks about the …
At her home in Siliguri, India, Sumana Roy and her nephew reflect on the continuance of all that has vanished from our sight.
In this essay from Boyce Upholt, a coalition of Indigenous voices speak on behalf of the rooted beings of the desert as legal protections for the saguaro cactus come up against the push to build a border wall.
Jori Lewis is drawn to the wisdom and resiliency of Africa’s baobab trees—ancient arks of biodiversity that have endured for millennia—and bears witness to these elders in a rapidly changing world.
Anna Badkhen considers failed migrations and the impossibility of escape as the forces of climate catastrophe and colonial greed combine to trap the world's most vulnerable populations.
As Melanie Challenger examines the belief in human exceptionalism that has devastated life on this planet, she wonders if our desire to outrun death is hindering our capacity to love.
Through an imagined exchange of letters between two pillars of conservation, J. Drew Lanham asks: In the ongoing response to racism, how might reckoning with history help us weave better futures?
This sonic journey narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
Navigating Black lineages of thinking and practice, Makshya Tolbert wades into the liminal space that exists between water and Black memory.
In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an invitation to engage in a living dialogue with our Earth.
As the Point Reyes National Seashore deliberates the fate of Theresa Harlan’s family homestead, she continues her grassroots efforts to involve the wider community in protecting the last standing Coast Miwok structures on Tomales Bay.
Episode Two traces thousands of years of Indigenous presence and history in the greater San Francisco Bay area, all the way through the oppressive colonial systems that have become today’s mainstream culture, and asks: Who gets to define history?
Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay—an uprooting which ended her family’s time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa.
Camille T. Dungy reflects on the legacy and journey, triumph and trauma, of seeds.
In this interview, David Abram discusses our current moment of ecological and societal instability and calls on us to remember the animacy of our bodily senses and our participation in the collective, embodied flesh of the Earth.