Stories

Future’s Echo

The places abandoned by humankind provide a new start for the natural world.

The Earth Element of Five Element Taoist Medicine

The earth element governs the spleen and stomach. Its spirit cultivates devotion, integrity, clear thought, and intention.

Cold Comfort

A young Syrian refugee reflects on the part that climate breakdown has played in his migration.

Rebooting Our Food Systems

Grown, Cooked and Served

Conor Spacey is the culinary director of FoodSpace Ireland, a catering company with a focus on social responsibility and sustainability that operates throughout Ireland producing over 2m meals a year.

Rethinking the American City

Modern US cities have adopted sustainable practices and eco-friendly construction with the intention of building toward a greener future.

The Beautiful Horror of Plants

How plants have embodied the uncanny in art, literature and film.

Stories of Fluorescence

How fluorescence links nature and culture across the globe.

The Fire Element of Five Element Taoist Medicine

Fire governs the small intestine, and our heart, where the mind and spirit reside.

Systems Change

Colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism are at the root of the intersecting crises of climate breakdown, authoritarianism and Covid-19 in the global south.

Between the Dog and the Wolf

The artists reflect on remnants of ancient ways of thinking, cautionary tales and the recognition of consequences.

The World is a Spirit Vessel

At first sight, our modern age might seem to have proven this passage from the Tao Te Ching wrong.

Striving for Equity

Tim Leeson caught up with Zayaan Khan following the launch of Before Simon’s Bay, a permanent marine and environment exhibition at the Simon’s Town Museum, for which Zayaan was a contributing artist.

Rights of Nature

A number of countries have passed laws granting rights to nature, but we should not assume that this legal mechanism always benefits the environment.

Be the Revolution

Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist, and politician, Sônia Guajajara was born in 1974 on Terra Indígena Araribóia (Araribóia Indigenous Land).

The Mathematics of Nature

Through understanding the numerical designs at work in the world, I feel closer to nature.

Two Hundred and Fifteen Seeds, Unearthed

When I think of native species, I have a nostalgic reverie for the plants I grew up alongside.