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Applied Alchemy

A profile of Lead2Life. Extracted iron ore can be forged into a weapon. A gun can be melted into a shovel that is used to plant a tree.

Hallowed Ground

A profile of theologian Martin Palmer. The roots of religious belief and the sacredness of nature were once closely entwined: the ancient yew grows in the churchyard; the forest monks of Thailand follow the Buddha’s example of meditating beneath trees.

The Seeds of Ancestors

A profile of Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman, exploring her work to create spaces for people of color to heal and reconnect to the land—an effort to end America’s food apartheid system.

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Speaking Wind-Words

On the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, I consider the collision of prophecies that occurred over the Great Plains in the nineteenth century, forever altering the landscape; and how places

Coming into Being: Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse

As my daughter learns to speak, I meditate on how to listen for a language of mothering that is in service to all of life’s beings. Published at Emergence Magazine.

One Hundred and Eleven Trees

When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that reclaims a vital and ancient relationship between trees and women. Re