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emergencemagazine, 11 days ago to random

“Scientists reported that the whales use a much richer set of sounds than previously known, which they called a ‘sperm whale phonetic alphabet.’” Carl Zimmer for the NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/science/whale-song-alphabet.html

emergencemagazine, 13 days ago to random

Urging us to reweave mind and landscape, David Hinton offers an ethics tempered by love and kinship as a way to navigate our era of disconnection. Listen to “An Ethics of Wild Mind,” a conversation with David Hinton. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

emergencemagazine, 17 days ago to random

“What causes us to recoil, strike, and retreat is also what allows us to reach out from the anxiety of unknowing and dare to trust what is to come.” —Terry Tempest Williams
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/unraveling-ttw/

emergencemagazine, 18 days ago to random

“Winter is a kind of pregnant emptiness. Spring emerges out of that—it flourishes. And life flourishes in summer and then dies back into that emptiness of winter.”

Listen to “An Ethics of Wild Mind,” a conversation with David Hinton. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

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emergencemagazine, 21 days ago to random

“What might happen if you could summon back into the mouth what also should be summoned back into the landscape?” — Robert Macfarlane

Tune in tonight to KALW 91.7 FM for the official premiere of the Emergence Magazine Listening Hour at 7pm PDT, or listen online: https://www.kalw.org/podcast/emergence-magazine-listening-hour

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emergencemagazine, 25 days ago to random

This week, we invite you to journey with us across the landscapes of Slovenia, where beekeeping has deep, traditional roots and pollinators are at the heart of daily life.
“The Pollinators of Slovenia,” an interactive documentary by Studio Airport. https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/pollinators-of-slovenia/

Photo of a caravan with colorfully decorated bee hives on the side with propped up, overhanging canopy parked amounts a field of flowers beside a forest.
Photo of two hands holding at the fingertips, two sprigs of budding flowers.

emergencemagazine, 27 days ago to random

Thank you to all who voted for us in this year’s Webby Awards! We are delighted to announce we’ve won both the Webby Award and the People’s Voice Award for “Best Magazine,” all thanks to your support. https://winners.webbyawards.com/2024/websites-and-mobile-sites/general-desktop-mobile-sites/magazine/277387/emergence-magazine

emergencemagazine, 28 days ago to random

In this week’s podcast, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton listens for the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise. Listen to “Sanctuaries of Silence: A Listening Journey,” by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

emergencemagazine, 29 days ago to random

This week, in celebration of Earth Day and our six-year anniversary, we invite you into Earthly soundscapes both primordial and present-day, the lushness of their music bringing you into relationship with our planetary home. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/celebrate-earth-listening-to-her-sounds-and-songs Illustration by Daniel Liévano.

Photograph of a man in a large coat and headphones, holding a tall microphone shaped like a human head, and looking up into the tall rainforest of trees that surrounds him.

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

We’re excited to announce the forthcoming launch of our fifth volume, Time, at AA Bookshop, a specialist architecture bookshop in London, on May 15th. Learn more and reserve a free ticket: https://emergencemagazine.org/event/volume-5-launch-at-aa-bookshop-in-london/

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

When did the living Earth first start to sing? In this immersive sonic journey, biologist and acclaimed author David George Haskell opens our senses to the joy and wonder of sound on Earth.
Listen to “When the Earth Started to Sing” by David G. Haskell. https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/when-the-earth-started-to-sing/ Illustration by Daniel Liévano.

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emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

“They are embedded within one another. The church is within the forest; the forest is inside the church.” — Dr. Alemayehu Wassie

Watch “The Church Forests of Ethiopia” by Jeremy Seifert.
https://emergencemagazine.org/film/the-church-forests-of-ethiopia/

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

In this week’s film, the forest becomes part of the church itself, and tree and prayer begin to soften into one as reverence and devotion are extended beyond human spaces. Watch “The Church Forests of Ethiopia” by Jeremy Seifert. https://emergencemagazine.org/film/the-church-forests-of-ethiopia/

Image from a film of a man in church robes swinging incense and walking through the doors of a church and towards the sunlight that is shining in.
Image from a film from above of a circular church rooftop, painted in brightly colored rings, surrounded by a stone wall and and another ring, but made of trees.

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

“The fundamental koan is the Earth.”
Delving into the power of the not-knowing mind, Susan Murphy Roshi presents Zen koan as a gateway to truly connecting with the world around us.

Listen to “Earth as Koan, Earth as Self.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

A closeup preview of our new practice booklet, A Practice in Time, at the printer. Due out this summer alongside our new print edition, Volume 5: Time. Visit our store to learn more and pre-order your copy. https://store.emergencemagazine.org/

An image of the cover of a booklet printed on a large striped sheet of paper with the text: A Practice in Time

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

What becomes possible when we open and orient our consciousness towards uncertainty, emptiness, and a sense of relationship with the world beyond the self? This week on our podcast we share a conversation with Australian writer and Zen teacher Susan Murphy Roshi.
Listen to “Earth as Koan, Earth as Self.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

To know the plants, to know nature, to know your country, and to know your origins in the Khmer language you must know and feel the land through the senses. You must taste the land. Learn about a new online course with Award-Winning Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam. https://emergencemagazine.org/event/storytelling-with-cheate-and-chett/

emergencemagazine, 1 month ago to random

“Now, / as I’ve aged, my oblivious brushstrokes too weak / to recite the Spring wind, the sparse, / rose-colored dapples beyond the bamboo forest / sending a sharp fragrance.”

Read or listen to “Poems from the Song Dynasty,” translated by Shangyang Fang. https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/poems-from-the-song-dynasty/

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

Responding to Mohammad Sajid’s calls and gestures, pigeons sway in undulating flight as he directs their movement through the air, in this week’s photo essay. View “The Birdman of Old Delhi” by Nachiket Sharma. https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/the-birdman-of-old-delhi/

A photograph of multiple pigeons swaying in undulating flight and some standing beside a man above a rooftop and the open doors of the pigeon coop.

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

On a rooftop in Old Delhi, photographer Nachiket Sharma captures the pigeon-keeping tradition known as kabutarbazi, revealing an age-old companionship between humans and birds. View this week’s photo essay, “The Birdman of Old Delhi.” https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/the-birdman-of-old-delhi/

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

Spending time with these majestic beings, photographer Paolo Pellegrin earned the trust to witness the last surviving northern white rhinos up close: the textures of their skin, the paces of their movements, the closeness of the bond they share. View “Najin and Fatu.” https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/najin-and-fatu/

Black and white photograph of a man squatting beside a northern white rhino laying down with one hand resting on the her shoulder.
Black and white photograph of two northern white rhinos laying down amongst the tall grass together.

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

Who counts as a subject of rights? In this week’s op-ed, César Rodríguez-Garavito, founder of the More Than Human Rights Project (MOTH), urges us to remember that we are embedded in a wider biosphere in which every element of the web of life has agency. https://emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/more-than-human-rights/

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

How can we come together to love Earth in a time of unraveling? Join St. Ethelburga's for a Spiritual Ecology Conference on June 24th that will draw on diverse faith, spiritual, and non-religious perspectives. https://emergencemagazine.org/event/spiritual-ecology-conference-at-st-ethelburgas-centre/ Photo by Gheorghe Popa.

emergencemagazine, 2 months ago to random

“Your individual viewpoint—that’s not a reality, that’s a truth for you. And if you’re doing it right, then you’re constantly changing that truth and amending it according to your interactions with others and other truths.” Listen to “Deep Time Diligence.” https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/deep-time-diligence/ Photo by James Henry.