Indigenous Solar Eclipse Stories From Across Turtle Island
From rodents of unusual size to flaming arrows, communities across North America share solar eclipse traditions
Monica Gagliano is a research associate professor in evolutionary ecology and former fellow of the Australian Research Council. She is currently based at Southern Cross University, where she directs the Biological Intelligence Lab funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own “voices” and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory) in plants. Her latest book is Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic Books, 2018).
Chasing Cicadas
Amid the cacophony of a cicada emergence, Anisa George reflects on her choice to leave the Bahá’í faith and its promise of a new civilization
The Possibilities of Regeneration
Origins of regenerative agriculture, offering a story that is both new and ancient in its roots
Ghost Pipe, Illness, and Mycoheterotrophy
No matter how sick I feel, I’m still afire with a need to do something for my living
Listening to Stones
Little Bear believes there is an unspoken language that makes it possible to bridge every worldview
Love as the Ground of Being
Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams discuss the limits of materialism.
#67 The Dreaming Path
A SAND Conversation with Aboriginal elders and authors
Your Stability, Patience, and Inclusiveness
In this series of tender meditations, Ten Love Letters to the Earth, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to be truly present with the Earth, our Mot