Emergence Magazine
@emergencemagazine.bsky.social
Webby-winning, Ellie-, Peabody- and Emmy-nominated publication and creative studio exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Currently not active on Bluesky. Find us here:
https://linktr.ee/emergencemagazine
https://linktr.ee/emergencemagazine
“We look upon the world / to see ourselves in the brief moment that we are of the earth / a small fern in a crevice of the cliff face.” From our latest print volume, Time, read “We Look at the World to See the Earth,” by Ed Roberson. buff.ly/OPtSxQj
April 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“We look upon the world / to see ourselves in the brief moment that we are of the earth / a small fern in a crevice of the cliff face.” From our latest print volume, Time, read “We Look at the World to See the Earth,” by Ed Roberson. buff.ly/OPtSxQj
In celebration of Earth Day, this week's podcast invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. Listen here: buff.ly/zCQxfK1 Illustration by Daniel Liévano. @dghaskell.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In celebration of Earth Day, this week's podcast invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. Listen here: buff.ly/zCQxfK1 Illustration by Daniel Liévano. @dghaskell.bsky.social
In honor of Pope Francis’s passing, we revisit his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’—a call to care for our common home, the Earth. In this essay, Paul Elie explores how religion and the natural world might come together for shared renewal. Read “Ecological Conversion.” buff.ly/22enhOi
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In honor of Pope Francis’s passing, we revisit his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’—a call to care for our common home, the Earth. In this essay, Paul Elie explores how religion and the natural world might come together for shared renewal. Read “Ecological Conversion.” buff.ly/22enhOi
For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the living world shimmered with a divine feminine presence—a fecund and endless substance, sprung from the unseen world, that spoke to him from grove, in birdsong, on the breath of wind. Read our newsletter: Rewilding in the Company of Mystics. buff.ly/c2UQiO2
April 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the living world shimmered with a divine feminine presence—a fecund and endless substance, sprung from the unseen world, that spoke to him from grove, in birdsong, on the breath of wind. Read our newsletter: Rewilding in the Company of Mystics. buff.ly/c2UQiO2
In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ
April 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ
“The concept of an unchanging wilderness—its panoramas predictable, its seasons unrolling like backdrops in a school play—is a fiction.”
Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1
Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“The concept of an unchanging wilderness—its panoramas predictable, its seasons unrolling like backdrops in a school play—is a fiction.”
Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1
Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1
With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and despair. Read “A Small King” by @nicktriolo.bsky.social. buff.ly/TivAReZ
April 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and despair. Read “A Small King” by @nicktriolo.bsky.social. buff.ly/TivAReZ
As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social.
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buff.ly/7tok7pX
April 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social.
buff.ly/7tok7pX
buff.ly/7tok7pX
“Once upon a time giants sculpted the sand, but now it is us who are the giants. The question we must ask now is how we use our power.” — @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social
Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0
Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0
April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Once upon a time giants sculpted the sand, but now it is us who are the giants. The question we must ask now is how we use our power.” — @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social
Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0
Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0
Home to vast sands raised from the sea five thousand years ago, the wooden throne of a giantess, and legends of a vindictive dragon, the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea is a storied landscape that has been profoundly shaped by humans. Read this week's newsletter.
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buff.ly/XAeSq7I
April 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Home to vast sands raised from the sea five thousand years ago, the wooden throne of a giantess, and legends of a vindictive dragon, the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea is a storied landscape that has been profoundly shaped by humans. Read this week's newsletter.
buff.ly/XAeSq7I
buff.ly/XAeSq7I
The Nightingale’s Song asks: What would it mean if the nightingale and its song were lost from the English landscape? Explore our new film series engagement guide, and reflect on how experiencing love and grief simultaneously can deepen your connection with your landscape. buff.ly/FwlqroV
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Nightingale’s Song asks: What would it mean if the nightingale and its song were lost from the English landscape? Explore our new film series engagement guide, and reflect on how experiencing love and grief simultaneously can deepen your connection with your landscape. buff.ly/FwlqroV
“While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves.”
Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J
Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J
April 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves.”
Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J
Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J
Traversing the Curonian Spit, home to vast sands that move, rise, and may disappear entirely due to human activity, @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social journeys through the landscape’s buried past to understand how we have altered geological time. Read “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/VldxZZf
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Traversing the Curonian Spit, home to vast sands that move, rise, and may disappear entirely due to human activity, @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social journeys through the landscape’s buried past to understand how we have altered geological time. Read “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/VldxZZf
Join us for Offprint London at Tate Modern in London for three days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community. From Friday, May 16, through Sunday, May 18. buff.ly/KjPq8Ro
April 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us for Offprint London at Tate Modern in London for three days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community. From Friday, May 16, through Sunday, May 18. buff.ly/KjPq8Ro
In this week’s podcast, Emily Polk learns of the enduring generosity and spirit of survival of these tiny creatures, and glimpses the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world. Listen to “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/ofwBkko
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In this week’s podcast, Emily Polk learns of the enduring generosity and spirit of survival of these tiny creatures, and glimpses the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world. Listen to “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/ofwBkko
Referred to as sacred tears of God, emissaries for the ancestors, and message-carriers to the afterlife, bees have long resided at the heart of cultural practices straddling life and death. Read this week's newsletter, Telling the Bees Your Grief. buff.ly/20DO78t
April 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Referred to as sacred tears of God, emissaries for the ancestors, and message-carriers to the afterlife, bees have long resided at the heart of cultural practices straddling life and death. Read this week's newsletter, Telling the Bees Your Grief. buff.ly/20DO78t
“I love that the origin of the word “reciprocity” comes from the Latin word that means “back and forth.” So there is a back-and-forth, a dance. The birds give, we give back, and we engage in a continuous dance of reciprocity.” —César Rodríguez-Garavito
Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M
Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M
April 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“I love that the origin of the word “reciprocity” comes from the Latin word that means “back and forth.” So there is a back-and-forth, a dance. The birds give, we give back, and we engage in a continuous dance of reciprocity.” —César Rodríguez-Garavito
Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M
Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival. Read this week’s essay, “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/zHqQbvs
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival. Read this week’s essay, “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/zHqQbvs
Our new companion Engagement Guide invites you to weave each film in our Shifting Landscapes series with your own story; host a film screening; open a dialogue within community; and cultivate a living connection with your landscape. buff.ly/eAa8x4h
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our new companion Engagement Guide invites you to weave each film in our Shifting Landscapes series with your own story; host a film screening; open a dialogue within community; and cultivate a living connection with your landscape. buff.ly/eAa8x4h
This week’s podcast explores the creation of a song made not just in a forest, but in conscious collaboration with it. Listen to “Song of the Cedars,” a conversation with Giuliana Furci, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social. buff.ly/GRrqf53
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This week’s podcast explores the creation of a song made not just in a forest, but in conscious collaboration with it. Listen to “Song of the Cedars,” a conversation with Giuliana Furci, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social. buff.ly/GRrqf53
Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to flow with love magic; to “swim in its currents” to offset the greed and extraction that is consuming the world. Listen to “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/7Vio14h
March 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to flow with love magic; to “swim in its currents” to offset the greed and extraction that is consuming the world. Listen to “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/7Vio14h
In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9
March 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9
In this week's conversation, More Than Human (MOTH) Life Collective members share their ongoing project to gain legal recognition of a cloud forest in Ecuador as co-creator of the musical composition “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/fhVrrWz @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
In this week's conversation, More Than Human (MOTH) Life Collective members share their ongoing project to gain legal recognition of a cloud forest in Ecuador as co-creator of the musical composition “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/fhVrrWz @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social
Introducing our Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide—a space for reflection, discussion, and practice on each of films’ explorations of uncertainty, loss, and great change in the places we call home. buff.ly/8AVkx7B
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Introducing our Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide—a space for reflection, discussion, and practice on each of films’ explorations of uncertainty, loss, and great change in the places we call home. buff.ly/8AVkx7B
In this week's podcast episode, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband,” Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic and explores how we might slip between the cracks of the linear and maintain connection across time. buff.ly/tcyCuYT
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In this week's podcast episode, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband,” Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic and explores how we might slip between the cracks of the linear and maintain connection across time. buff.ly/tcyCuYT