We are so excited to announce our 2026 Print Edition theme: ancient future We have collectively found ourselves in the midst of a polycrisis where many of us feel paralyzed. How did we get here, and what do we do now? We know we have to create innovative solutions to these new challenges, but as the law of conservation tells […]
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Hiring Graphic Designer for SAGE’s 2026 Print Edition–Apply here!
SAGE magazine is The Yale School of the Environment’s annual art & literary publication. This year’s theme is ancient future and we are looking to hire a designer for the school year to bring the 2026 print edition to life. We are looking for designers with experience in publications and are open to experimentation, collaboration, and blending traditional and futuristic […]
2025 Print Edition
Eclipsed Ecologies This year’s edition of SAGE revels in darkness — depths where life exists without light or creates light of its own. Dark ecologies exist all around us. Some we can’t see without disrupting their darkness, such as fine networks of tree roots and the mycorrhizal fungi. Some create their own glow, like the glittering chemistry of bioluminescence in […]
Call for Submissions: Eclipsed Ecologies
Annual print edition submission deadline is January 5. Prize amounts from $250 to $500.
2024 Print Edition
KINSHIP IN THE HEAT of a midsummer day, I wade into the glacial waters of my favorite alpine lake. I’ve been swimming here for as long as I can remember. Floating on my back, I look up at the open sky, which is framed by the silhouettes of spruce and pine. The world seems as small as it does infinite. […]
2023 Print Edition
Ecological Memory The loss of memory can be devastating. Last year, SAGE published our first print magazine since 2020. It was a massive undertaking, clouded by uncertainty. The one-year hiatus had halted the transfer of institutional memory. Our team had to rebuild SAGE nearly from scratch. This year, we’ve carried that momentum with us, patchworking together what we know about […]
2022 Print Edition
CULTIVATION Cultivation: the act of caring for living things of all kinds.Cultivation: tilling, tending to, and turning pieces of the world over and over in our minds’ eyes. Agriculture and, in its most literal sense, cultivation is so many things at once: a carbon source and sink, an engine of profit and debt, a tool of oppression and liberation, a […]
2020 Print Edition
COLLISION EDITOR’S LETTER Trevor Dolan and Karam Sheban Thanks to extensive human meddling, the planet is coming apart at the seams. It often feels like people have a pestilential touch; wherever we meet the natural world, we manage to kill somethingimportant. But in obsessing over our capacity for destruction, we often ignore healthy, productive, respectful contact between people and the […]
2018 Print Edition: Degrees of Separation
Collective Resilience in a Changing World
Sage Magazine 2017 Print Edition
The 2017 Sage Magazine Editorial Board is excited to present the 2017 Print Edition: Justice Out of Place. In this year’s print edition, we step into the communities on the frontlines of environmental conflict.
Place: The Sage Magazine 2016 Print Edition
What creates meaning in a place? We asked contributors for this issue of Sage to reflect on the question.
Boundaries: The Sage Magazine 2015 Print Edition
Explore some of the environmental boundaries that define our world.