‘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
Sometimes late at night
I play with my radio,
trying to tune in the dead.
A nine-band Panasonic,
ears on the world,
AM, FM and shortwave.
I believe this is how
those gone will reach me,
thin noise disguised in a song.
So I listen to language
I don’t understand, waiting
for words 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
