Writing Contest

Writing Contest

Today’s lesson is brought to you by the letter B: Botany, Beverly, Bidwill and Bunya

Today’s lesson is brought to you by the letter B: Botany, Beverly, Bidwill and Bunya

Tamsin Kerr, second-place winner of our 2015 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, takes readers to an aboriginal celebration of an ancient tree on the Sunshine Coast of northeastern Australia.
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An aerial shot of the Susitna River. Photo by Travis Rummel

Power Struggle: Pushing Back on Alaska’s Susitna Dam Proposal

Sarah Guy, co-winner of our 2015 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, travels up the Susitna River and learns from an Iditarod racer about a controversial dam project.
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Why We Plant Trees

Why We Plant Trees

Sophie Dillon, third place winner of our 2015 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, picks up a pickaxe, plants a tree, and learns something about community in the process.
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Untamings: Two Essays on the German Post-natural

Untamings: Two Essays on the German Post-natural

Lauren Greyson, co-winner of our 2015 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, takes a walk to Honeymoon Hole, a landscape once pried and blasted apart, now transformed.
by × October 12, 2015 × 0 comments

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The fragile Outer Cape seashore. Photo by the author.

The Lives of Plovers

Sierra Dickey, Honorable Mention of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, contemplates how a small shorebird can teach us to be more reverent.
by × October 17, 2014 × 3 comments

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The Memory of Trees

The Memory of Trees

Pamela Sonn's haunting meditation from Alaska's temperate rainforest is third place winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest.
by × October 7, 2014 × 0 comments