Emergence Magazine is an online publication with an annual print edition.

It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we look to emerging stories. In them we find the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Emergence Magazine is an editorially independent initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation. We are located on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people of present-day Marin County.

Adam Loften is a director, editor, cinematographer, and producer for short documentary films that highlight pressing social and environmental issues. His work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Andrew Hinton is a filmmaker living in New York city. His films include the award-winning documentary short Amar and Tashi and the Monk.

Angello Faccini is a director and cinematographer. He was born in 1991 in Bogotá, Colombia, and studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. Among his cinematography credits are Lina (2016), winner of a Young Directors Award at Cannes, and Lapü, which premiered at Sundance 2019. He is also co-director of the award-winning short film Dulce (2018).

Anna Palmer is an environmental scientist and storyteller. She works for the Department of Environmental Conservation in source water protection.

Anna Ewert is an award-winning filmmaker from Germany. Her films include Into the Middle of Nowhere, Endless Day, Nadeshda, and 11 Degrees.

Arati Kumar-Rao is a National Geographic Explorer, an independent environmental photographer, writer, and artist who documents ecological degradation. She chronicles South Asia’s changing landscapes and climate and their effect on livelihoods and biodiversity. She is currently on a National Geographic Explorer grant to document forced human migration. Arati’s work has appeared in The National Geographic Magazine, The Hindu, Dysturb, The Guardian, BBC Outside Source, Hindustan Times, and Mint.

Arron Wilder produced the film Shaped by Hand. He owns and operates Table Top Farm, a 4-acre organic vegetable farm located in Point Reyes Station, California.

Writer Azby Brown is an artist and designer living in Japan. He is the author of The Genius of Japanese Carpentry, Small Spaces, The Japanese Dream House, The Very Small Home, and Just Enough: Lessons in living green from traditional Japan.

Ben Hilton is a filmmaker based in London. He works on diverse projects including political documentaries, romantic comedies, podcasts, and feature films.

Writer Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. His contributions helped establish the foundation of a new bioacoustic discipline: soundscape ecology. Krause's most recent book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, was published in March 2012.

Photo Credit: Tim Chapman