See Nature Differently

See Nature Differently There’s a particular kind of tiredness that comes from knowing too much about a world in trouble. You read the numbers, you nod, you move on, and somehow nothing changes. We have more climate data than any generation in history. We can track carbon parts per million, degrees of warming, and freshwater depletion between 2002 and 2023. And yet, for many of us, the numbers don't land. They float outside our bodies, outside our days. As artist Yiyun Kang put it in her 2026...

See Nature Differently New children's handbook turns eco-anxiety into home-based habitat Young Australians from Perth's coast to Sydney's suburbs are setting up nesting boxes, building insect hotels, and turning backyard curiosity into citizen science. The Bee Squad was written for them. Aimed at readers aged eight to twelve yet grounded in serious ecological thinking, Judy Friedlander's handbook pushes back against helplessness by handing children practical tools. Behind the book stands...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter Horses have been our partners for millennia. Here, trauma specialist Cindy Jacobs shares what she has learned from working with horses in therapeutic settings and how their presence can create the conditions for calm and recovery. Horses have always occupied a special place in human life. They have carried us, worked beside us, and stood at the edge of our imagination as symbols of strength, elegance, and freedom. In this piece, trauma specialist Cindy Jacobs...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter For much of human history, construction relied on locally available resources such as straw, timber, and earth. As the climate crisis intensifies, materials research is turning toward biological processes and slower cycles of production. Industrialization replaced these with concrete and steel, materials whose production depends on large-scale extraction and high energy input. Cement is widely estimated to account for about eight percent of global carbon emissions,...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter Climate change can feel remote until art makes it close. Photo © Andy Mann / Courtesy of Vital Impacts That is one of the most important things art can do in the face of a crisis that often arrives as charts, forecasts, and official warnings. Science tells us what is happening, and that knowledge is essential. But knowledge does not always become feeling, and feeling is often what brings a problem into real focus. Art helps bridge that gap. It turns climate change...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter The landscape of British Columbia holds two competing stories about the wolf. Photo © Ian McAllister / Pacific Wild One story is written in budgets, kill quotas, and population models. The other is written in the footsteps of a predator moving through old-growth forests, the silence of a caribou herd avoiding a logging road, and the local memory of what the woods used to sound like. The government narrative treats the wolf as a variable in an equation. In this...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter Mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes lock away carbon at rates up to four times higher than tropical rainforests, yet they vanish silently into dredging and development. Humanity monitors coastal climate threats through visible indicators like storm surges and coral bleaching. This focus obscures the primary mechanism of long-term carbon sequestration occurring in sediment layers beneath the waterline. Mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes function as...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter In the Scottish Highlands, a community stood against the advance of industrial wind farms by recovering an old vocabulary. They resurrected a "peat glossary," reviving archaic terms that describe the texture, sound, and scent of their land. Words like gloaming, skirl, and moss became intimate descriptors of a living kin. As Robert Macfarlane argues in Landmarks, drawing on the wisdom of Wendell Berry, conservation begins with deep, particular knowledge. Berry...

Earth Endeavours Newsletter There is a hollow quality to a photograph of a wolf nestled perfectly between two branches. That's because the "perfect" shot is often a lie. But the solution isn't to put down the camera—it's to change what it captures. For decades, the public has consumed these images as proof of nature's accessibility, unaware that the "wild" they admire is often a concrete cell in a game farm. The recent surge in exposés regarding the wildlife tourism industry—from...