Stories

Only a diversity of place-based solutions can restore biocultural abundance on earth.   Jerome Lewis, Ameyali Ramos, and Jessica Sweidan . If the challenge of our times is to pass...

Art that celebrates nature’s abundance and invites us to reconnect with, respect, and revere the existing natural balance.

With nature as his teacher, a scholar pauses to appreciate the abundance surrounding him.

WORDS Ella Woods and Faith Baisden | IMAGES Belinda Hoare The intense spiritual connection that First Nations songs inspire is helping revitalize First Peoples’ languages in Australia.      ...

A plant biology student discovers that her language, culture, and connection to land will always be part of her, no matter where she goes.

Learning from seeds, the kernels of life, we can reimagine an economy rooted in abundance and reciprocity.

For farmers in Costa Rica, quality of life, well-being, and connection to land are more important than economic growth.

Participatory video helps restore Indigenous communities’ links to — and pride in — their ancestral languages, traditions, and knowledge.   Before we get to the “participatory” bit, can we all...

A city of resilient “tribes” offers a lesson on how to preserve urban biocultural diversity. WORDS Stephen Houston │ IMAGES Stephen Houston, Dario Ciccarelli, and Luca Casagrande In previous issues...

A Maaori alternative artist from Aotearoa uses art and music to protest colonial laws and reclaim the power of her peoples.

A student embarks on a quest to learn about and reconnect with her Khasi heritage.

Tea and coffee plantations in southern India encroach on Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life and territories, threatening the protection of their sacred groves.