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Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more. We feature new podcast episodes weekly on Tuesdays.
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Reading the Rocks – Jenny Odell
Spending time with a landscape opens us to the language it speaks. Can we quiet our own voices enough to hear what the Earth has to say? This week, Jenny Odell takes us on a walk through the folds and furrows of her Oakland neighborhood, listening for the memories embedded in the shape of her surroundings. Sensing the language of her local terrain, she begins to tune in to the age-old conversation between rock and water. By cultivating this sustained attention, Jenny shows how we can ask a place, as we would a person, what is your story?
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Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – Lily Kelting
How do we taste a landscape? In this narrated essay, food and culture scholar Lily Kelting immerses us in the sounds of construction, the presence of buffalo, and the fragrance of marigold, smoke, and trash that flavor the outskirts of Pune, India. Opening our senses to the terroir of her local milk—a union between cow, community, and land—she wonders how it can help us understand the diverse and robust ecology of this edge-place.
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Enraptured with Earth – Two talks by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
At our Shifting Landscapes retreat held at Sharpham Trust in Devon last summer, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee gave two talks that invite us to once again fall in love with the Earth. Feeling strongly that in this time of ecological unraveling the Earth is asking us to return Her ever-present gaze with our tenderness and care, Emmanuel urges us to expand our love to embrace Her in every moment, in every landscape.
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Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George
In anticipation of this year’s massive cicada emergence, we revisit a story from Anisa George, where she calls us into the wonder of encountering these tiny messengers. Immersing us in the sound—the buzzing, whirring, and clicking—of cicadas, this story invites us into a community beyond the human. What can it mean to participate in such a cycle? Why together? Why now?
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Finding Joy in the Unknown – A Conversation with Dara McAnulty
Envisioning a future colored by a worsening ecological crisis makes for a despairing picture, but how can we find ways to keep our hearts open amid destruction? How can we express an authentic love for the living world in ways that invite others into a space of reverence? In this week’s podcast, we’re featuring a conversation from 2021 with Irish writer, naturalist, and activist Dara McAnulty. As he wonders what the future might look like if we activated change from a place of care, rather than fear, Dara uplifts joy as an essential tool in transforming our current moment.
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Deep Time Diligence – An Interview with Tyson Yunkaporta
What would it mean to operate from a place of deep time diligence? In this conversation, Tyson Yunkaporta, an Aboriginal scholar and author who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland, speaks with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee about deep-time thinking and the ways it can radically reshape our relationship to the cosmic order. Wondering how we can operate within our obligations to future generations, Tyson urges us, with the same candor and humor that tempers his books, to create story, data, and technology from a place of “right relationship.”
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Customer Reviews
Nourishment
Thank you, Emanuel, for this soulful podcast. It speaks to another part in us that has atrophied severely since the industrial capitalist system has taken charge of our world. It feeds this part and reminds us to stay human kind.
In an attempted practice towards not becoming “the crisis,” just avoids it completely
Six months in and not a single story, writer, perspective, literally word about Gaza? I’m sorry, is the pace with which over thirty-thousand people being slaughtered and 1.4 million being forcibly starved on a live feed too fast for your magazine/podcast’s “ethics of ‘slow consumption”’?
Hopeful calm
Somehow calm and relaxing while witnessing the beauty and pain in the world that leaves you feeling deeply empowered to be the change. Shares helpful inspiring practices to reconnect w everyday nature. Really brilliant. Frequently leaves me feeling awe.