Finding the life world
Sarah Ryhanen on falling out of love with flowers, chasing friction, and becoming her own student at World’s End School.
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Dark Properties is a future-focused newsletter connecting personal and planetary ecologies, from editor & gardener Willa Köerner.
Gardens under glass
Landscape architect and Harvard professor Danielle N. Choi on climate-controlled gardening, the value of speculation, and why designing with living things means never really being done.
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Tech support for a heated planet
Sanjana Paul on studying data centers, leaving NASA, being a “climate person,” and incrementally building our decarbonization muscles.
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What if we let the lanternflies live?
Maybe it’s time to accept the fact of our changing ecosystems, grieve the harm we’ve caused, and trust nature’s rewilding process.
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Not just a bunch of trees
Artist and environmentalist Zoe Keller on illustrating biodiversity, fighting to protect her beloved Zena Highwoods, and the developers who called the cops on her for looking at toads.
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Embracing the climate gothic
Naming the haunting devastation of our macabre future.
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The irresistibility of a solar punk future
Spencer R. Scott on leaving the tech world to start a queer-run farm and climate hub that's "a vibe, not a cult."
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Skincare at the end of the world
The algorithm wants me to think that aging is ugly. Is it?
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How do you trust a mystery?
A homeopath’s revelations on healing, career paths, and all the ways we can build knowledge.
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Will invasive species actually be nature’s salvation?
Science writer Fred Pearce on why “alien” species aren’t villains, but rather harbingers of Earth’s rewilding process.
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Can we get down to earth?
Amirio Freeman and Kate Weiner on following sparks of collaborative resonance, building literacy through embodiment, and why slowing down might save us.
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The subtle spiritual work of flowers
Colie Collen on starting an urban flower farm, growing it incrementally, and appreciating the never-ending lessons of her floral teachers.
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Aaand we’re back
This publication has been redesigned, refreshed, and reimagined—and is ready to rumble.
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