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 […]
For an audio version, here is Jesse reading the piece on his Yonder Lies Podcast. On a hot day in the summer of 2018, I woke up to red and blue lights saturating the white dolomite walls that loom over the Ten Sleep Rock Ranch, the new rock climber’s campground in the canyon just upstream of the town of Ten Sleep, Wyoming. I had been […]
The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline brought the attention of the world crashing down on the banks of the Missouri River. If justice must exist in place, what does it look like?
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.