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We Can Do It
Hey, You! Koalas evolved alongside eucalyptus forests, able to digest the usually-toxic leaves with assistance from symbiotic bacterial...
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Jul 22 min read


Adding an Ethical Perspective
One person’s attempted solution to the plummeting numbers of rhino across Africa, recognizing that rhino horn can be regularly harvested,...
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Jun 262 min read


Independent Publishing
Book publishing is changing--as it always has, since people first began putting stories into pictographs and hieroglyphic renderings. As...
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Jun 192 min read


To Love Our Work
How remarkable when we can share labor in our communities in ways that lift up common values and create safety and joy with colleagues....
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Jun 102 min read


Fungal Moment
When we bought an unused pasture in the hay-producing south end of this valley, my first thought for homebuilding was to try a strawbale...
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May 302 min read


Bee Curious
We saw a few bees here before even the first dandelion, but only now does that seem like it should have signaled some annual celebration...
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May 232 min read


Alchemy
Whatever hardships we have, reaching out to lighten someone else’s burden allows alchemy to happen. My partner’s father, at almost 90...
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May 142 min read


Migration is Natural
White-faced Ibis We have a long-standing May tradition of traveling over the mountains that contain our valley on the west and dropping...
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May 72 min read


Fertile Fields and Forests
Across both the european landmass and Turtle Island, the Earth’s axial tilt provides changing seasons that my ancestors recognized with...
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May 22 min read


Strengthening Creative Muscles
My friend Wendy introduced me to the term Craftivism. Her usual choice of creativity is fiber-based, as in the quilted piece above. She...
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Apr 212 min read


Rockhoppers Having Fun
When people refer to the Heard Islands and McDonald Islands as "uninhabited," of course they mean BY PEOPLE. So these incredible wildlife...
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Apr 121 min read


Be-ing Kind
At the Tucson Festival of Books, community organizations of all kinds shared the white tents populating the University of Arizona's...
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Mar 172 min read


Beyond Home
David Wright Faladè and his new novel. Flying off to Arizona tomorrow for the Tucson Festival of Books is a big deal for me. But one of...
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Mar 102 min read


Not so Impossible
“Impossible” was also kind of an ironic way of thumbing our nose at the doubters. These are words from Pat Brown, founder of Impossible...
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Mar 21 min read


Wild Hart
Naomi Owens-Beek, Saulteau First Nation Powerful storytelling in a visual format, standing up for mountain caribou comes alive in the...
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Feb 181 min read


Shifting tones
from decolonial atlas When harm is coming our way, we have to be a protective force, in our warrior stance, for people and planet....
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Feb 102 min read


Engage
Jenny O'Connell Whether we tend to hide away from minus twenty Fahrenheit outdoors or bolt as political stews boil over and douse the gas...
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Feb 52 min read


Planetary Words
In a context of ever-present change, our planet’s ongoing experiments with Life have been “a big, joyful party”* of diverse approaches to...
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Jan 222 min read


Simple as a Seed
Seed Catalogs Are Arriving As Snow Sifts Down Daily In my 50's before heading to graduate school, my choice was weighted toward my home...
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Jan 42 min read


Double-Up
Play Twice as Hard! Everything is better when shared, right? Writers are urged to double up the ways each word or image can act in a...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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