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Featured Writing
This is the utopia I dream of: a low sun, a beach fire, the bay as flat and cold as gray slate, a small pile of empty oyster shells growing slowly larger, the laughter of my friends. Read more…
As an environmental writer, I’m often asked for guidance on coping with climate change. I have thoughts. Even better, I have a five-point plan to manage the psychological toll of living with climate change and to become part of the solution. Read more…
I use the breakfast test. Does the animal choose its own breakfast? Then it is wild. It doesn’t matter if the animal is “native” to a place. It doesn’t matter if the place itself has been radically transformed, like New York City. Read more…
Books
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
What is “nature”? This optimistic book describes conservation approaches that aren’t about rigidly returning landscapes to previous conditions but are instead about working with nature’s own resilience as it adapts and changes.
Wild Souls
Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way you think about nature-and our place within it.
- Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
- Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books)
- Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Writer, Author, Speaker
Meet Emma Marris
I am an award-winning journalist whose writing on science and the environment has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Nature, and many other publications, including Best American Science and Nature Writing. Although I write about music and film as well as about wolves and carbon emissions, my singular goal is to understand the best way to live now, within the complex multi-species networks we all find ourselves. It is deeply exciting and occasionally overwhelming work! I live with my family in Portland, Oregon.