How do you future-proof the present? How can you contextualize a specific moment? These are the questions that keep bubbling up when I meet with Helene Larsson Pousette and Robert Duffley in June of ...

AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER each year, something unavoidable happens: the insects come back out. While some find the bugs ...

HEADING NORTH, FOLLOWING THE tang of boggy rivers and the sweetness of pines on the air, I like to imagine that I could smell my way home, like a salmon navigating to its natal stream. Closer and ...

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN eating mushrooms for at least twelve thousand years, according to the fungal micro-remains found in Paleolithic dental samples in a mountain cave in Eastern Spain. Yet the idea of ...

MY CONVERSATION WITH ARTURO would happen after I returned home, but on the last weekend of my Oregon trip, I buckled into Joe’s gray Toyota Tacoma truck as he drove us out to Mount Pisgah Arboretum.

Corey Pressman: My question to you all to get started is why fungi, and why now? Merlin Sheldrake: I think there are a few reasons why we’re seeing a surge of interest in fungi right now. One is that ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

LET ME START NOT with the artwork this time but by outing us both, me and Tove, women who have loved people of different genders and settled down in the end with women. It’s no secret that Tove ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

HERE, IN THIS moment, a wilderness is a spacious and thriving place without a clearly defined path or the overlay of intellectual or commercial control. A place defined by its innate and intertwined ...

JO: I sometimes feel that in an individualistic culture, people get freaked out by the idea of being tied down or responsible for anything. Thinking about a gift economy, they might say, “I want the ...

THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion. For over a century, the paper bag held dominion over how ...