Environment

A man with curly brown hair and triangle-checkered blue and white shirt stands among tall yellow sunflowers.

Environment, Music

Rewilding Culture: Sam Lee and Cosmo Sheldrake’s Love Songs to the Natural World

July 28, 2023 | Tia Merotto

Britain’s emerging “eco-folk” scene addresses the urgent reality of ecological collapse.

Gray headstones and green grass and trees in a cemetery.

Environment, Work Life

The Potential of Our Decay: Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape

April 17, 2023 | Devinne Melecki

Covering two million acres of U.S. soil, cemeteries are lush with potential for the living and the land.

Three people stand around a kitchen island counter. The mom is using tongs to cook something on a hotplate. The dad is reaching for a plate of greens. The daughter is using chopsticks to fill a lettuce leaf with a brown filling.

Environment, Foodways

How Foraging in My Backyard Helped Me Connect with Korean Culture

November 8, 2022 | Gloria Koo

Although foraging is often associated with images of primitivity or hunter-gatherer societies, the concept is not as outdated as many believe.

Close-up of a monarch butterfly on fallen brown pine needles. Its wings are orange, outlined in black, with white spots.

Celebrations, Environment, Religion & Spirituality

Winged Messengers: How Monarch Butterflies Connect Culture and Conservation in Mexico

October 30, 2022 | Tia Merotto

Each fall, like clockwork, clouds of monarchs descend upon the highland forests of central Mexico.

People at a rally hold up identical signs, reading Young Jews for a Green New Deal, along with an image of a tree.

Environment, Religion & Spirituality

Repairing Our World: Jewish Environmentalism through Text, Tradition, and Activism

January 11, 2022 | Joelle Jackson

What does environmentalism mean within Jewish communities, both secular and religious, across the United States?

Closeup of ears of corn in various hues—red, black, yellow, white, orange, pink.

Environment, Traditional Knowledge

“Seeds Have Stories”: Connecting Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity

November 11, 2021 | Gabrielle Puglisi

When we fail to prioritize biodiversity, we risk erasing cultural diversity as well.

Detailed color illustration of a cicada with red eyes and orange-lined wings hanging upside down from a tree branch.

Art & Design, Environment, Traditional Knowledge

Cicada Folklore, or Why We Don’t Mind Billions of Burrowing Bugs at Once

May 16, 2021 | James Deutsch

The earliest documented examples of cicada folklore come from China.

A young women holds a tuft of long grass, smiling on a forested hillside that looks like it's recovering from a fire.

Environment

Weaving Through Time, Pandemic, and Wildfire

March 22, 2021 | Carolyn Smith, Emily Buhrow Rogers

For Carolyn Smith (Karuk), learning to weave was a chance to focus on her personal identity.

A spectrograph image shows bands of orange and blue across the bottom and middle. The top is mostly black, representing an absence of loud at that volume. In the center is a more definite block of orange, from when a car passed by.

Environment

Sonic Reflections: Observations of the Changing Soundscapes of the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 26, 2020 | Marinna Guzy

The community you live in strongly shapes the soundscape of your life story.

“nəwewəčəskawikαpáwihtawα” (“I stand to face and challenge him”). Art by Lokotah Sanborn (Penobscot)

Environment, Social Justice

Native Land, Native Leadership: Restructuring the Climate Movement

May 3, 2020 | Mali Obomsawin

Without Indigenous and Black leadership, the climate movement will be neither coherent nor effective.

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