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11/30/2024

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Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray the natural world onscreen, and how...

11/30/2024

Maria Pinto traces the roots of the ackee fruit from cultivation to gastronomy and demonstrates its deep connection to her homeland and heritage:

In which I resist naming the colonizer who named the tree

11/26/2024

In celebration of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Jenny Odell spoke with Kimmerer on Gift Thinking: the relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy:

The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy

11/20/2024

COVER REVEAL: This winter we're curling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and our new issue: all about the nature of film.

The cover art, by illustrator Natsumi Chikayasu, captures the sometimes wondrous, sometimes uncanny experience of observing the more-than-human world—at the moment it looks right back.

In this issue we ask: can the act of viewing become a form of activism?

Get swept up into an interview with Robert Redford, see the Golden Girls defend a swamp, peer through the history of the fisheye lens with Moeko Fujii, find your reflection in survivalist TV with Casey Lyons, take on Godzilla with Isami McCowan, and more. Thank you to the NRDC for their generous funding of this issue!

You ready? Winter 2024 hits mailboxes and newsstands in just a couple weeks: https://orionmagazine.org/issue/winter-2024/

11/15/2024

In part two of our four-part Future Imperfect series, Mikkel Rosengaard explores how Denmark's ancestral fjords—once teeming with flounder, garfish, herring, mackerel, eel, turbot, and langoustines—have been declared ecological dead zones. "What happened to the dying Danish seas is not a murder mystery," he writes. It's a clash of two national interests: "It's either the farmer or the sea," he says. "This country is not big enough for both of them." https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-last-of-the-fishermen/

Our Future Imperfect series is guest-edited by Nathaniel Rich, and generously sponsored by the Fine Fund.

Future Imperfect Part 2: The clash between Denmark’s agricultural industry and the movement to heal the seas

11/15/2024

Start 2025 grounded in creative community with these amazing instructors! ❄️ Today is the final day to apply to Winter Workshops: https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/

11/14/2024

By Kerri ní Dochartaigh

11/13/2024

This week, we're returning to the words of Colette written over a century ago during WWI. The Eyes of the Dragonfly was translated by Zach Rogow and Renée Morel and adapted for Orion's Book of Bugs:

Translated by Zack Rogow and Renée Morel

11/08/2024

Want to ground yourself in a creative community this winter? Our Winter Workshops might be a good place to start. Applications due by November 15th: https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/

11/07/2024

Readers and friends: be part of our reader-sourced Murmuration section for the upcoming Spring 2025 issue! We're looking for images of rainbows—any variety you can think of 🌈

Each season we put out a themed call for photography, then pick fifteen of our favorites to run as a group of 2 x 3 images on Orion's page 2.

Submit 1-3 images, and if we select one, you'll get a complimentary year-long subscription. Don't worry about resolution or specs yet, but know that horizontally oriented photographs work best.

Submit by November 15th here: https://orion.submittable.com/submit/311448/murmuration-spring-2025-queer-ecology?mc_cid=f0dde19cfe&mc_eid=9c4c2cebba

11/07/2024

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11/05/2024

As we head into Election Day, surround yourself with voices that encourage and inspire action.

Featuring work from Robin Wall Kimmerer, Glenis Redmond, Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben, Winona LaDuke, Scott Russel Sanders, Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, and Barbara Kingsolver—and a forward by Gretel Ehrlich—The Most Radical Thing You Can Do is a collection of Orion's best political writings from the last 20 years.

Through Wednesday, November 6th two anthologies, The Most Radical Thing and Unnatural Disasters, are bundled at 20% off:

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do collects the best political writing in Orion from the past twenty years, with a focus on justice, direct action, and (of course) the...

11/01/2024

The winter season for Orion Magazine's Online Environmental Writers' Workshops in poetry and nonfiction is open for applications November 1-15. For full course descriptions and to apply visit: https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/

10/31/2024

Kelly McMasters writes of a cave-less island that offers sanctuary—and unexpected hope—to the cauldrons of bats who call it home:

Bringing bats home

10/31/2024

Have you had your eye on a particular back issue? Celebrate falling back for daylight savings with 50% off Orion's back issues, now through Monday, November 4th. Discount automatically applied at check out. Peruse our gallery here:

Welcome to the Orion Back Issue Gallery. Here, you will find single issues for purchase.

10/30/2024

We have one more day before our fall fundraising campaign ends—please consider supporting Orion Magazine. Any gift counts! 🥰

Donate to Orion This FallOrion helps me, and hopefully, you, remember what it means to participate in a reciprocal, generous, and compassionate way.When I read an issue of the magazine, or when I participate in an Orion event, as I did last spring, I feel as if I am actively cultivating a deeper lov...

10/30/2024

Five tide pool creatures to become when life is too much, courtesy of Cameron Walker 🐚

Expand image captionAggregating anemone; Ed Bierman/Flickr Enumerations5 Tide Pool Creatures to Become When Life Is Too Much By Cameron WalkerExpand image captionAggregating anemone; Ed Bierman/FlickrOctober 16, 20241 Acorn BarnacleStart out as a free-floating larva, letting the ocean carry you wher...