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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Collective Resilience in a Changing World
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.
What creates meaning in a place? We asked contributors for this issue of Sage to reflect on the question.
Explore some of the environmental boundaries that define our world.
Want to write for Sage? Send us your pitch by Monday, January 19.
Every summer a small army of researchers and interns from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies filters out into the world. This year Sage Magazine asked a bunch of them to tell us about their progress, giving us all opportunities for insight into the places and people they were getting to know. Keep checking in to watch the adventures unfold.
Hear ye, hear ye: send us your best environmental writing by April 19. Glory and riches may be yours!
The NRDC’s Senior Wildlife Advocate sits down with Sage to chat about the simple bear necessities of life.