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· Oct 23
COVER REVEAL! Our Autumn issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP, is almost at your doorstep.
This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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Look closely at these magnificent illustrations by Jill Pelto.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
The Wondrous Works of Jill Pelto - Orion Magazine
Incorporating scientific data into watercolor paintings
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Look closely at these magnificent illustrations by Jill Pelto.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
In them, you’ll find carefully crafted graphs telling a story of climate change you can’t look away from.
Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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Fantastic adventure, gentle lessons, amazing illustration: we’ve done all the research on gift ideas for the kiddos in your life. All you have to do is browse.
12 Picture Book Recommendations for the Young Ones in Your Life - Orion Magazine
Give the gift of a good story
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December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fantastic adventure, gentle lessons, amazing illustration: we’ve done all the research on gift ideas for the kiddos in your life. All you have to do is browse.
“Through my work in the garden, I have become rich in time.”
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
Winter Garden - Orion Magazine
Finding redemption in a place out of time
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December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Through my work in the garden, I have become rich in time.”
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
A meditation on the winter garden, a place with much to teach about patience and our silly man-made schedules.
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True "abundance"
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy
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December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
True "abundance"
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Check out this fun interview with Erica Berry, author of Aeon Essay ’An Animal Myself’ aeon.co/essays/playi...
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Check out this fun interview with Erica Berry, author of Aeon Essay ’An Animal Myself’ aeon.co/essays/playi...
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As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy
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December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Are you looking to rehabilitate the way you see the world? Are you hoping for more “gift thinking,” the way Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it? This conversation is a good place to start.
🚨 Gift idea alert 🚨
12 Picture Book Recommendations for the Young Ones in Your Life
Give the gift of a good story
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November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 Gift idea alert 🚨
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This looks like another good read.
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This looks like another good read.
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
On consumption.
The Age of Eating - Orion Magazine
" They seemed to arise out of nowhere by the millions. Lying in wait for decades, possibly."
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November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
On consumption.
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Danusha Laméris observes the turkeys in her backyard... and notices an unexpected interloper.
Strange Bedfellows
Discover the daily schedule of wild turkeys
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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Danusha Laméris observes the turkeys in her backyard... and notices an unexpected interloper.
"I only make pecan pie at Thanksgiving," writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. "I don’t even like it especially, but I want to honor that tree."
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
Council of the Pecans
Lessons on native resilience from a venerable tree
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November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I only make pecan pie at Thanksgiving," writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. "I don’t even like it especially, but I want to honor that tree."
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
On the social and ecological history, the mass-fruiting mystery, and the abundant generosity of pecan trees.
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?"
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gooseberry Marsh
On love and hunting ducks
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November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?"
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.
"Nothing is more threatening to one’s mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
Freebirds
I believe deeply in all these versions, but for me Thanksgiving is very much about the pardoning of turkeys.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Nothing is more threatening to one’s mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
On one of America's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon.
"Part of the great parentheses of our lives, dawn summons us to a world alive and death-defying, when the deepest arcades of life and matter beckon."
Good morning ☀️
Good morning ☀️
World at Dawn - Orion Magazine
The pleasure of life rekindled
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November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Part of the great parentheses of our lives, dawn summons us to a world alive and death-defying, when the deepest arcades of life and matter beckon."
Good morning ☀️
Good morning ☀️
There’s a story behind everything we put on our plates. This is one of the many stories of millet.
Our Daily Ceeb
On the slow translation of Senegalese food
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November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There’s a story behind everything we put on our plates. This is one of the many stories of millet.
Cranky swamp witches! Hungry chupacabras! Lost kittens, kids in rabbit suits, and the father of modern ecology! This gift list for kiddos—curated by our editors—has got it all.
12 Picture Book Recommendations for the Young Ones in Your Life - Orion Magazine
Give the gift of a good story
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November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Cranky swamp witches! Hungry chupacabras! Lost kittens, kids in rabbit suits, and the father of modern ecology! This gift list for kiddos—curated by our editors—has got it all.
From our Autumn 2025 issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
From our Autumn 2025 issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP.
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If you grew up wearing orange in the woods every fall, you know a little bit about hunting season. Phoebe McIlwain Bright explores her complicated relationship with hunting in this piece from 2023.
Eating from the Mountains
On a complicated relationship with hunting
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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If you grew up wearing orange in the woods every fall, you know a little bit about hunting season. Phoebe McIlwain Bright explores her complicated relationship with hunting in this piece from 2023.
"I sense a disturbance in the air. My chest feels tighter; something is not quite right . . . and then I see it. I remember it. I am a time-traveling disabled oracle."
Thank you, Alice Wong. 💚
Thank you, Alice Wong. 💚
Breath
"Breath is more than an exchange of oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. It is mechanical, fundamental, and profound."
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November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"I sense a disturbance in the air. My chest feels tighter; something is not quite right . . . and then I see it. I remember it. I am a time-traveling disabled oracle."
Thank you, Alice Wong. 💚
Thank you, Alice Wong. 💚