The Glorians
Born from a pandemic dream — a vow to create what Terry Tempest Williams calls the “Epic Documentation of the Glorians” — this essay collection defines a Glorian as an encounter with grace in the unexpected: an ant ferrying a magenta blossom across the desert floor, the sound of baby birds heard for the first […]
Blue Forest
Blue Forest is a nonprofit conservation finance organization that brings people, finance, and science together to restore and protect forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. The organization builds partnerships with investors, land managers, nonprofits, Native Nations, private companies, and the public sector to catalyze the funds and partners needed to make restoration projects happen. Blue Forest […]
Disaster as a Springboard for Thriving Resilient Communities
This article, published in December 2013 by the Society of Organizational Learning’s Reflections Magazine, explores what happens when catastrophe fundamentally shifts the world we know. On March 11, 2011, the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak devastated northeastern Japan. In the aftermath, people from throughout the country began to gather not just to […]
Ashes to Resilience
Ashes to Resilience: A Guide to Wildfire Recovery is a resource developed by NewStories and Regenerating Paradise, drawing on their experiences to offer starting points for communities navigating wildfire recovery. Recognizing that what needs to happen is shaped by local culture and geography, the guide supports communities in their own journey of recovery and Re-Storying. […]
Regenerating Paradise
Regenerating Paradise is a nonprofit organization formed in the wake of the Camp Fire with a mission “to weave the social fabric that regenerates us.” The organization defines regenerating as a process of rebuilding and recovery that, as in regenerative agriculture, replenishes rather than depletes. Looking to Ridge community residents for resources, Regenerating Paradise works […]
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong’s 2016 New York Times bestseller arrived at a pivotal moment in biology, introducing a general audience to one of the most profound scientific shifts since Darwin: the discovery that every animal—including every human—is not an individual at all, but a living ecosystem. The trillions of microbes that inhabit us sculpt our organs, educate […]
An Immense World
Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong opens a door most of us never knew existed. His 2022 book introduces the concept of the “Umwelt”—the unique sensory bubble each animal inhabits—and then takes us on a journey through dozens of them: the magnetic field a sea turtle navigates by, the electrical pulses fish use to communicate, […]
Becoming Earth
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, reveals life’s profound influence on our planet through acclaimed science writing that transports readers to extraordinary places—a former gold mine nearly one mile underground, an experimental nature reserve in remote Siberia, an observatory on a dizzyingly tall […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a double bassist and composer raised in the mountains of Western Canada, where nature became his primary inspiration and the common thread between his life and music. His three solo albums—Alpine, Flying, and Voyage—reflect his experiences carrying his 150-year-old double bass to remote locations including woods, beaches, deserts, Antarctica, and Tuva. During […]
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award, with reviewers describing it as an “electrifying” and […]
Learn Biomimicry
Learn Biomimicry believes sustainability is broken—lofty promises are made, and goals are set, often without a clear action plan for how to achieve them—and there’s a better way, naturally. On a profoundly poetic level, biodiversity and nature hold the key to their own survival and our role in building a life-friendly future. The organization works […]
AskNature
AskNature is a platform built on the premise that humanity faces many challenges and nature holds solutions—to discover them, all we have to do is ask. The resource features more than 1,800 curated strategies of living beings that can serve as inspiration for human innovation, enabling users to search and explore nature’s successful adaptations. Whatever […]