Stories, Lesson Plans & More

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Memory’s Radial Path to Learning

This essay explores how memory and storytelling are tools to humanize learning, allowing students to connect to their inner lives.

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Stories of Our Moral Deformation

How might stories act as keys allowing us access to challenge, examine, uproot, and illumine our habits and fears?

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Doorways to Our Childhood Selves

This essay explores the power of our imagination and how stories can act as thresholds to our childhood selves.

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Getting to the Heart of Global Education

This essay explores the origin story of the Global Oneness Project, the intention of the organization, and the goals of the Project’s free curriculum resources.

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

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Learning and Teaching from the Heart in Troubled Times

Ariel Burger explores ways to embrace curiosity and celebrate questions in challenging times.

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Speaking of Nature

This essay explores and affirms our kinship with the natural world.

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The Axis and the Sycamore

What if the collision between ecology and modern civilization isn't an environmental problem, but a spiritual one?

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The Space Race is Over

Paul Kingsnorth examines the collective fear of the future and the resurgent concept of space colonization. 

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Forty Days

Kingsnorth urges us to contemplate the productive meaning of loneliness and withdrawal.

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Orchestra of the Wild
Bernie Krause, known as the father of soundscape ecology, describes how he came to record the voice of the natural world.
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Rivers and Stories

Learn more about the cultural history and health of rivers around the world.

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Small Talk: Life on a Farm
Author Luanne Armstrong reflects on what happens when we engage with the natural world.
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The Future As Seen From Greenland
Author Craig Childs confronts the reality of climate change from a remote scientific outpost on Greenland's ice sheet.
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Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA
Charles Wohlforth examines the role of human beings within and without the context of their own ecosystem.