“All life-forms are persons, only some of whom are human, because all beings are differentiated members of a community of relationships, only some of whom are recognizable as living beings by us.

– Mark Wallace

Introduction Keynote

To All My Relations

By Martin Winiecki

Tamera has researched the foundations of a possible post-capitalist society for over 40 years and works on building models for ecosystem restoration, regenerative autonomy and above all, for freeing love from fear and reconnecting society with the “sacred matrix” of life.

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Article Regeneration

The Holy Grail of Restoration

By John D. Liu

Over historical time the vegetative cover and evolutionary biodiversity of the Sinai has been in large part lost. Imagine the importance if it were possible to restore the region to ecological health.

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Conversation Global Commons

Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon

By Belén Paez and Bill Twist

Bill Twist | What is particularly inspiring about this initiative is that the indigenous groups, although clearly working to protect their territories, also see that this project is for the world and that it is setting a conservation example for the world.

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Music Living Traditions

Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts

By Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach

Sam Lee is a British singer of traditional folk songs, a collector, an archivist, a conservationist, and a radical re-interpreter of the British folk tradition.  He is the driving force behind the eclectic, award-winning folk club 'The Nest Collective', and an emerging figure in the Extinction Rebellion movement.

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Essay Reader's Essay

The Gift of Tears

By Margaret Miller

These writers do not tell us that receiving the gift of tears means we remain in a state of mourning. If we can, we need to keep walking. If we haven’t already done so, we need to articulate what is dear to us, what it is in the natural world that we truly love.

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Gallery Conscious Consuming

Captives of Our Desire

By Cally Whitham

Finding beauty where none is immediately apparent and value in banality, photographic artist Cally Whitham’s camera collects images of ordinary things we no longer see.

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman