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Friday, June 5: “Cooking up a New World”
by Pramila Jayapal
In the immediacy of great tragedy, a window of opportunity opens.
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Thursday, June 4: “Edge City”
by Suzannah Lessard (Winter 2018)
The way a place changes mirrors the way we ourselves are changing.
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Wednesday, June 3: “Whose Parks are These?”
Edited by Carolyn Finney (Summer/Autumn 2016)
Seven writers and an artist explore the relationship between race and our national parks.
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Tuesday, June 2: #blackoutTuesday
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Monday, June 1: “A License to Be Human”
An Interview with Van Jones (May/June 2006)
Being an activist is as much about the self as it is about problems in the larger world.
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Friday, May 29: “We are the Storm”
by Multiple Artists (November/December 2015)
Migrant artists and activists change perspective on climate through art.
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Thursday, May 28: “What Hangs on Trees”
by Glenis Redmond (November/December 2012)
Legacy and memory in the southern landscape.
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Wednesday, May 27: “The Chicken Project”
by Gina Warren (July/August 2015)
One woman’s quest to kill her own food.
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Tuesday, May 26: “Forever Gone”
by J. Drew Lanham (Spring 2018)
How bird lives and black lives intertwine under the long shadow of history.
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Friday, May 22: “How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time”
by Alex Carr Johnson (March/April 2011)
A lesson plan.
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Thursday, May 21: “Galileo Fallacy”
by Jay Griffiths (July/August 2012)
Climate contrarians and the crisis of credibility.
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Wednesday, May 20: “Hidden Spring”
by Emily Raboteau (May/June 2017)
A grassroots alliance between Israelis and Palestinians provides water, energy, and hope in the West Bank.
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Tuesday, May 19: “Good Stewards”
by Wendell Berry and Francesco Mastalia (Summer 2014)
The farmer lives and works in the meeting place of nature and the human economy.
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Monday, May 18: “Six Stones to Get Lost With”
by Hugh Raffles (March/April 2013)
An Enumeration on the anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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Friday, May 15: “Six Ways to Calculate a Universe in Flux”
by Jamie Zvirzdin (Autumn 2019)
An Enumeration on a son calculating uncertainty.
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Thursday, May 14: “How We Wrestle is Who We Are”
by Brian Doyle (January/February 2005)
A coda from the late Brian Doyle.
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Wednesday, May 13: “The Perfect Predator”
by Sonia Shah (November/December 2006)
Malaria makes a comeback.
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Tuesday, May 12: “A Conjoined Fate”
by Hugh Raffles (January/February 2010)
A painter challenges the divisions between art and science, safety and risk, humans and insects.
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Monday, May 11: “Nine Rules for the Black Birdwatcher”
by J. Drew Lanham (November/December 2013)
#1. Be prepared to be confused with the other black birder.
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Friday, May 8: “Social Medicine”
by Erin Middlewood (September/October 2005)
The isolation of modern life may be bad for your health.
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Thursday, May 7: “Seeking Resemblance”
by Jill Sisson Quinn (May/June 2017)
An adoptive family finds kinship in the natural world.
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Wednesday, May 6: “Stillness”
by Scott Russell Sanders (Spring 2001)
On the inability to rest alone in a room.
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Tuesday, May 5: “Hugging Shadows”
by Rebecca Solnit (January/February 2005)
And basking in the dark.
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Monday, May 4: “Losers Keepers”
by Robert Michael Pyle (November/December 2005)
Things that go missing, or what we gain from the ever-present ebb and flow of stuff.
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Friday, May 1: “The Squeeze”
by Barbara Hurd (July/August 2003)
When a rock and a hard place are more than metaphor.
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Thursday, April 30: “10 Remedies for Cabin Fever”
by Ana Maria Spagna (March/April 2014)
These tips might be helpful. During a pandemic.
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Wednesday, April 29: “7 Gentle Ways to Use a Broom in Spring”
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (March/April 2015)
Spring cleaning? Start here.
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Tuesday, April 28: “World at Dawn”
by Diane Ackerman (July/August 2009)
The pleasure of life rekindled.
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Monday, April 27: “Language Garden”
by Susan Antonetta (March/April 2005)
Does an orangutan find freedom in the gift of words? Do we?
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Friday, April 24: “High Maintenance”
by John Price (September/October 2006)
In which the hero faces destitution or a life of petty crime.
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Thursday, April 23: “Rituals of Spring”
by Cheryl Daigle (May/June 2005)
The Sacred and the Mundane
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Wednesday, April 22: “Chorus at the Dawn of Earth Day”
by Gary Paul Nabhan (Spring 2020)
An account from the first celebration of our planet.
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Tuesday, April 21: “Lilacs”
by Mike Madison (March/April 2006)
Spring bloom and childhood.
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Monday, April 20: “The Gulf Between Us”
by Terry Tempest Williams (November/December 2010)
Stories of terror and beauty from the world’s largest accidental offshore oil disaster.
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Friday, April 17: “Maps”
by Elizabeth Bishop (Spring 1994)
To celebrate National Poetry Month.
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Thursday, April 16: “Midas’s Turtle”
by Tiffany Trent (May/June 2005)
To market, to market, to buy the last thing.
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Wednesday, April 15: “Germs of Life”
by Lynn Margulis and Emily Case (November/December 2006)
Our ancestors were bacterial communities.
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Tuesday, April 14: “Touching the Earth”
by bell hooks (Autumn 1996)
Nature and justice.
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Monday, April 13: “Gaze Upon This World”
by Amy Weldon (Spring 2018)
Nature, sight, and time.
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Friday, April 10: “The Ecology of Prayer”
by Fred Bahnson (35th Anniversary, 2017)
Faith and resistance in the age of climate change.
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Thursday, April 9: “The Prion Revolution”
by D.T. Max (Sept/Oct 2006)
A theory of lifelike proteins explains diseases beyond biology.
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Wednesday, April 8: “Where Paradise Lay”
by Joe Wilkins (Sept/Oct 2014)
A trip to the market becomes a rich lesson in the simple pleasures.
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Tuesday, April 7: “Justice by Moonlight”
by Rebecca Solnit (Jan/Feb 2004)
Canister guns are probably not in the arsenal of democracy, but poetry should be.
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Monday, April 6: “Wild Darkness”
by Eva Saulitis (Mar/Apr 2014)
In nature, death is not defeat.
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Friday, April 3: “Concrete Footing”
by Kathleen Dean Moore (Jul/Aug 2012)
On the solidity of the insubstantial.
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Thursday, April 2: “The Garden Remains”
by Baron Wormser (Mar/Apr 2013)
Celebrating the endurance of the green world.
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Wednesday, April 1: “Cyclopedia of an Expedition Around Svalbard”
by Rebecca Solnit (Jan/Feb 2013)
Representation meets reality on a journey through the Arctic.
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Tuesday, March 31: “Rule of the Phoenix”
by Craig Childs (May/June 2012)
On the ephemeral nature of civilizations.
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Monday, March 30: “Keep all the Parts”
by Leslie Bienen (November/December 2004)
In fighting infectious diseases, conservation is the best medicine.
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Friday, March 27: “Views of the Apocalypse”
by Lisa Wells (Winter 2020)
Freud, climate change, and language on the precipice.
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Thursday, March 26: “Flight of the Red Knot”
by Deborah Cramer (Spring 2020)
A bird that transcends cultures and also brings them together.
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