Available at the library’s Environmental Center: Emergence Magazine

Editor's note: this guest post is authored by Gregory Hom, Program Manager of the Environmental Center.  

Hi Magazines and Newspapers Center blog readers: I’m the manager of the library’s 5th floor Environmental Center. I’m thankful to be able to do this guest post on a physically beautiful magazine with great content: Emergence Magazine. 

Emergence has a lovely website you can enjoy on your computer or phone, but they also put out an annual print magazine. Below are the covers for the 2022 and 2023 issues. 2024's issue should arrive at the library relatively soon. 

Volume 4 (2023) of Emergence Magazine: Shifting Landscapes

Volume 3 (2022) of Emergence Magazine: Living with the Unknown

Spectacular photography and visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction pieces, and interviews are all part of the mix. With one issue per year, you’ll want to spend your time with these almost 300-page collections.

Some of the things I read today while preparing for this post: An interview with author Amitav Ghosh looking at issues of colonialism and violence against land and peoples. An interview with scientist Suzanne Simard on her work in forests and the concept of the Mother Tree. Thoughts on economics and ecology with Robin Wall Kimmerer, which will make you want to read her book The Serviceberry, coming out later this year in November. 

These reference volumes are kept in the Environmental Center, either on display or in the Reference Section. I do hope you’ll come by and check them out. The ideas in these 2022 and 2023 volumes are still fresh, relevant, and nurturing.