Stephen Bruce describes how through his unique type of treated copper sheet art he is connected to the earth and wishes to evoke emotions we experience when watching a beautiful sunset or the striking patterns in water from high above.
Fredrick Onyango describes Kenya’s widespread food insecurity, aggravated by the climate crisis, and how he has been helping his village combat hunger through training in organic farming, how to make fertilizers from compost or animal manure, and permaculture systems.
Fredy Nashon talks about food insecurity in Tanzania being aggravated by rapid population growth and his plan to help his community by transforming the system of food production to one based on permaculture and agroecology.
The slow money movement involves direct relationship-driven investing in local, small-scale agroecology and is an effective countermeasure to government subsidies propping up ecocidal, profit-amassing industrial agribusiness. Such impact investing helps to create food systems delivering healthy food sustainably and equitably.
Born in East Oakland, California, Kelvin Curry talks about his journey as an artist from his childhood in the 1970s to now, especially how his art is influenced by his upbringing and experience as a black man in the US.
James Bell, a native of West Oakland, California, US (also known as the Lower Bottoms), talks about what inspires his special brand of music: eating healthy, cooperative ethics, and life. He shares two tracks about black identity and eating nutritiously.
West Oakland, California, is often portrayed negatively in mainstream American media. But when I point my camera at the community’s people, I capture images of resilience, strength, and beauty. Like a formerly dilapidated shack transformed into an artistic home.
This painting instead depicts the feeling of doom regarding what an otherwise peaceful scene on earth might look like if we continue to allow climate change to progress at its current pace.
In this six-part interview, Paolo Ciarimboli shares his thoughts on the importance of centering farming in the modern social consciousness and transitioning from conventional (chemical) farming to organic and regenerative farming to counter the climate crisis, ill-health, and toxic lifestyles.
For many, trauma does not stem from isolated incidents like assault or loss. Instead, it is rooted in their surroundings — social injustices, systemic racism, and environmental hazards that oppress entire communities. This form of trauma reveals not individual fragility but fundamental flaws within our societal structures.
i climb into their branches
use my mouth
to wet a patch of lichen
soft gray-green
unfurling
spit bubbles stretching
and merging as tiny fingers
extend
