Through paintings and prose, a writer reflects on the startling resilience she finds in the most unexpected of places.
Recent Articles
Re-envisioning Waste in the Land of Rivers
Innovative, small-scale waste management in Bangladesh.
Protecting Our Landscapes in an Era of Corporate Control
Yale alumna, Liz Wyman, speaks out against the controversial Northern Pass project – and her alma mater’s decision to lease land enabling its completion.
Folsom Folks: Reconstructing Human History in Colorado’s Gunnison Basin
An archaeological site on Tenderfoot Mountain sets the stage for a story about exploration and human history.
Sandwash
Sam Miller-McDonald explores themes of greed and mortality through poetry imbued with imagery that evokes essences and scenes of the natural world.
Climate Change in Northern Pakistan: A Family Journey
The stunning views at every turn along the undulating road from Islamabad to Naran set the scene for a climate change journey through the communities of Northern Pakistan.
No Place
When natural and material paradise collide.
Vision of a Wasteland
Elevating the view from the world’s largest landfill.
Empowering At-Risk Teens to Shape Environmental Challenges with Design
The L.A. River inspires local teenagers to reimagine environmental problem-solving in their own community.
Reclaim Harlem Park
Baltimore residents cultivate community power in place.
Seguimos Luchando: We Will Continue Our Fight
Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, the encroachment of internationally-owned palm oil plantations on ancestral Shibipo lands inspires a village’s resistance.
Voices Underwater: Flint, Still in Search of Solutions
Following a classroom study of the Flint water crisis, Meredith Brown meets and shares the stories of Flint residents at the Water Infrastructure Conference in Flint, Michigan in March 2017.