Marking the passage of the seasons from summer to winter and back again is something people have done for millennia. Seasons are reliable — anyone living outside the equatorial band will continue to have colder and warmer seasons, probably for the rest of our lives. But many of us are realizing that larger cycles may […]
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Thoughts on an equinox
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged climate crisis, climate justice, equinox, future, Holocene, hope, inequality, seasons on September 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »
Equinoxx
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Bill McKibben, bioregionalism, equinox, seasons, Vermont, weather on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]