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…

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…

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…

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…