‘These forests are noisy. You feel enveloped in sound. Buzzes, clicks, whistles, screeches and whoops. Sound peaks at the day’s margins: the dawn and dusk choruses.’
In this interactive essay for Griffith Review 63: Writing the Country, Eddie Game of The Nature Conservancy explains how scientists can evaluate the health of an environment by measuring the... Read more
I WANT TO take you on a journey from the planet to the parish, from the global to the local, from the Earth in space to the earth beneath our feet, from the lonely glowing speck of dust at the edge of the galaxy to the soil that we kneel upon and sift through our... Read more
I am changing now
the congregation of years
not age so much as
a ripening view
and I
have started speaking to trees
one big gum
surely hundreds of decades
I stop and look hard
where peeling bark
reveals cambium whorls
like human fingerprints
and multiples of tiny crawling things
are not concerned
I... Read more
A system that cannot deliver the wellbeing of people and nature is in deep trouble. It invites ideas and actions that are transformative. James Gustav Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability[i]
IN AN ARTICLE in The London Review of Books from September 2017,... Read more
