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I especially welcome the small and everyday — what you happen to notice that strikes a chord inside.

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June 2025 | Part1: Interview with Sarah Dupre, Co-director of the Acorn MusEcology Project

May 2025 | “You have your plans. Let them rest/ in the welling of the trees,/ the billowing green waves.” Poems from the editor, photos, and more.

April 2025 | Interview with Justin Lindenberg, Executive Director of Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods

March 2025 | Part II: Interview with Christopher Szecsey, Consultant, Trainer, and Facilitator for Local and International Programs

February 2025 | Part I: Interview with Christopher Szecsey, Consultant, Trainer, and Facilitator for Local and International Programs

January 2025 | Interview with Benedicta Justine, Ethical Wildlife Photographer

December 2024 | Part II: Interview with Ewa Dobiala, Polish Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist

November 2024 | Part I: Interview with Ewa Dobiala, Polish Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist

October 2024 | Restorative Justice—Dipping into Our Humanity

September 2024 | Interview with Adam Boyette, Cultural and Psychological Anthropologist

July 2024 | Part II: Interview with Aaron Hargrove, Canine Companion puppy raiser, founder of the Peaceful Unity Community Coalition, and a former inmate. A Story of Transformation + Middle East Peace

June 2024 | Part I: Interview with Aaron Hargrove, Canine Companion Puppy Raiser, Founder of the Peaceful Unity Community Coalition, and Former Inmate + Middle East Peace

May 2024 | Part II: Interview with Saul Herrera, Vineyard Worker and Gardener + Middle East Peace

April 2024 | Part I: Interview with Saul Herrera, Vineyard Worker and Gardener + Middle East Peace

March 2024 | Part II: Interview with Fran Carbonaro, Vocal Coach, Songwriter, Poet + Middle East Peace

February 2024 | Part I: Interview with Fran Carbonaro, Vocal Coach, Songwriter, Poet + Middle East Peace

January 2024 | Part II: Interview with Valerie Dean + Middle East Poems

December 2023 | Part 1: Interview with Valerie Dean, Keeper of Praise Song for the Earth + Middle East Peace

November 2023 | Part II: Interview with Onye Onyemaechi plus Middle East Peace

October 2023 | Interview with Onye Onyemaechi, Master Drummer, Healer, and Community Builder – Part I

August 2023  |Interview with Hagit Cohen, Photographer, and Mixed Media Artist – Part II

July 2023  |Interview with Hagit Cohen, Photographer, and Mixed Media Artist – Part I

June 2023  | Interview with Dr. Ellie Fairbairn at the Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML)

May 2023  | Interview with MaMuse – Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker – Part II

April 2023  | Interview with MaMuse – Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker – Part I

March 2023 | Interview with Diane Barker, Artist, Photographer, and Chronicler of Tibetans – Part II

February 2023 | Interview with Diane Barker, Artist, Photographer, and Chronicler of Tibetans –  Part I

January 2023 | INTERVIEW WITH KAY CRISTA: Oral Poetry Performer, and Jeweler – Part II

December 2022 | INTERVIEW WITH KAY CRISTA: Oral Poetry Performer, and Jeweler – Part I

November 2022 | INTERVIEW WITH SALLY BRIGGS, Artist, Teacher, and Photographer

October 2022 | INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER, JERRY DODRILL – Part II

September 2022 | INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER, JERRY DODRILL – Part I

July 2022 | AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN CRAXFORD— Jewellery Maker and Designer Extraordinaire – Part II

June 2022 | AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN CRAXFORD— Jewellery Maker and Designer Extraordinaire – Part I

May 2022 | EARTH CONVERSATIONS: An interview with founder, Lily Sommer, and her associate Petra Burkhart

April 2022 | BODEGA LAND TRUST: Interview with Mary Biggs, Board President

March 2022 | WORKING WITH THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS – PART II: Interview with Jules Pelican, Director of Support Services, COTS (Committee on the Shelterless)

February 2022 | WORKING WITH THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS – PART I: Interview with Jamieson Bunn, Chief Development Officer, COTS (Committee on the Shelterless)

January 2022 | CLARION THE BEAR AND COP 26

December 2021 | THE CERES PROJECT, PART II: Interview with Tina Green, Ceres Program Director

November 2021 | THE CERES PROJECT, PART I: Teen Power – An interview with Teen Leader, Glynna Nathan

October 2021 | INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE GARRARD, Author of ‘The River — An exploration of a disconnected river; the Brue and Axe in Somerset’

September 2021 | THE WORK OF THE SACRED FEMININE CONTINUES

August 2021 | PART II: LESLIE ADKINS on Eco-grazing, the Fibershed, and Making Yarn.

July 2021 | LESLIE ADKINS’ STORY: PART I – The evolution of an environmental scientist and a wool farmer with a no-kill ethic.

June 2021 | THE PIPER by Diana Badger

May 2021 | RESTORING THE SACRED FEMININE — WHY ALL LIFE DEPENDS ON IT: An Interview with Jackie Crovetto in the UK: Part II

April 2021 | RESTORING THE SACRED FEMININE — WHY OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE DEPEND ON IT — An Interview with Jackie Crovetto in the UK: Part I

March 2021 | THE BAREFOOT GARDENER — An Interview with Yeti: There’s a need to find one’s place on the map. Not just the physical, but where are you in the rhythm and cycle of nature. The more you can locate yourself there, the more things work out …

February 2021 | INTERVIEW WITH BARRY VESSER FROM THE CLIMATE CENTER, SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – Part II: The science is pretty clear, we need to get to net negative emissions by 2030 which means drawing down more carbon from the atmosphere than we’re putting into it.

January 2021 | INTERVIEW WITH BARRY VESSER FROM THE CLIMATE CENTER, SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – Part I: Getting to a Carbon-free Economy

December 2020 | A “KINCENTRIC” VIEW OF LIFE. described by MELISSA NELSON, INDIGENOUS ECOLOGIST, WRITER, EDITOR, MEDIA-MAKER, AND SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST.

November 2020 | INTERVIEW WITH KAMALA BENNETT, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER – Part II: This work is my profession, but it is also my art form, my spiritual practice, and my activism.

October 2020 | INTERVIEW WITH KAMALA BENNETT, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER – Part I: I became very aware of the potency of crafting space and how transformative it can be, both in positive and negative senses.

September 2020 | MUD, MARRIAGE, AND MAGENTA, by IRENE BAKER

August 2020 | RESPONDING WITH LOVE AND COURAGE TO THE CALL OF THE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CRISIS, INTERVIEW WITH SHAMS KAIRYS – Part II: The aversion to facing our reality and our feeling responses is totally understandable. I don’t want to “go there” either, but the practice of sustaining my gaze is a form of living my truth.

July 2020 | RESPONDING WITH LOVE AND COURAGE TO THE CALL OF THE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CRISIS, INTERVIEW WITH SHAMS KAIRYS – Part I: The dread of feeling dread is part of what keeps us from opening to the fullness of our world.

June 2020 | INTERVIEW WITH SARAH ALLEN, MARINE BIOLOGIST AND CONSERVATIONIST – Part II: I focused on the importance of science in informing management. I learned from Starker Leopald that you can’t plan anything if you don’t know the FACTS! We needed the info first.

May 2020 | INTERVIEW WITH SARAH ALLEN, MARINE BIOLOGIST AND CONSERVATIONIST – Part I: You can’t care about species unless you have an emotional connection; without that you can’t empathize and understand them.

April 2020 | COVID-19: RECIPES FOR DISASTER AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BEING

March 2020 | THE PARADOX OF BEES: INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL THIELE

February 2020 | INTERVIEW WITH DESIGN ENGINEER LAURA SHUMAKER AND FROZEN 2: “My favorite place to climb is Bishop, California. It’s like going on a pilgrimage to a cathedral instead of weekly church.”

January 2020 | LESLIE DAVENPORT, PIONEER IN CLIMATE CHANGE PSYCHOLOGY – Part II: Everyone has a role in helping reverse our accelerating climate chaos.

December 2019 | LESLIE DAVENPORT, PIONEER IN CLIMATE CHANGE PSYCHOLOGY – Part I:
I used to say, “English is my second language, dance is my first.”

November 2019 | LUCY ARON, PHOTOGRAPHER: “Stay open to everything, seek the edge—the one that makes you feel you’re tangling with a koan—and never lose the spirit of play.”

October 2019 | RETAINING THE BIODIVERSITY OF WOODLAND – Part II: “It’s rare to walk around the county and see a hillside of redwood sorrel surrounded by other native plants.”

September 2019 | RETAINING THE BIODIVERSITY OF WOODLAND – Part I: Since I was a girl I’ve been programmed to experience and hold both the beauty and agony of the Earth.

August 2019 | FARMING WITH KILEY CLARK – A BLACK PERSPECTIVE: It’s easy to gloss over the issues in farming and just say, “Here’s a pretty vegetable.”

June 2019 | SACRED SEEDS with FOREST SHOMER—Part II: THE REDISCOVERY OF PRAIRIES: STOREHOUSES OF FOOD AND MEDICINE

May 2019 | SACRED SEEDS: INTERVIEW WITH FOREST SHOMER, A MASTER WILD SEED PERSON — Part I.

April 2019 | WATER – Part II: Now we can see water as an endangered species

March 2019 | WATER – Part I: The Intelligence of Water

February 2019 | HORSE-LOVE: SUSAN JAN’S STORY

January 2019 | THE BEAUTY AND HEALING OF TREES with ARTIST, MICHAEL ZIEVE

December 2018 | THE BARBER AND THE SAMI

November 2018 | “MAKING THE POWER OF WATER VISIBLE” with SCULPTOR, ALMUTH TEBBENHOFF

October 2018 | CONNECTING TO EARTH’S MAGIC with STEPHANIE NOBLE

September 2018 | INNER VOICE – A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

August 2018 | A QUIET STRENGTH with ARTIST, TERI SLOAT

July 2018 | CHILDHOOD MEMORIES & EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE’S INTERVIEW with JOANNA MACY

June 2018 | TREES TALK: Have You Listened? By SALLY CHURGEL

May 2018 | GOATS GALORE!

April 2018 | SPEAKING STONES with BHAVANI JUDITH TUCKER

March 2018 | THE WISDOM OF TREES

February 2018 | EARTH’S POWERS

January 2018 | THE SUBTLETIES OF WATER AND LIFE

December 2017 | COMPOSTING AND “EARTH’S SECRET MYSTERY”

November 2017 | COOKING

October 2017 | BREATHING

September 2017 | GOOD GRIEF

August 2017 | HONORING THE SUN

July 2017 | GARDEN MEDITATION

June 2017 | SPRING BLOOM

May 2017 | GARDENING

April 2017 | WALKING THIS EARTH

March 2017 | PLUM BLOSSOM and PHOTOGRAPHER, RUTH GILMORE

January 2017 | NEW YEAR DESPAIR?

December 2016 | STANDING ROCK AND OUR POWER

November 2016 | WHAT DOES EARTH-LOVE LOOK LIKE? MARY JOHNSON RESPONDS FROM AUSTRALIA

October 2016 | WHAT DOES EARTH-LOVE LOOK LIKE?