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Gourds and Tumblers: Sustainable Design and Climate
My grandmother’s waterpot was not the first I ever saw, but it was the first I got close enough to look inside and drink from. I was immediately shocked by how cold the water was. Curious as I was, I began asking questions about the science behind it. It was in this process that I…
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$8000-$15,000 Rainforest Reporting Grant
The Rainforest Reporting Grant is the evolution of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF), designed to support and strengthen independent journalism in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. Over the past five years, the RJF has supported more than 300 reporting projects involving over 600 journalists, resulting in more than 1,700 published reports. These…
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Dirge to Harmattan: Announcing the Winner
Arts Lounge Literary Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the “Dirge to Harmattan” Poetry Contest, a call that invited poets across Nigeria to mourn, remember, and reimagine the fading breath of harmattan in the face of climate change. We received a remarkable number of entries, poems that carried dust, memory, grief, and longing.…
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A Piece of Ourselves by Otiegbe Ikenna Charles
We ran through the streets with our cheeksburning from the cold, and our laughter chasingthe wind that carried the stories from the far edgesof the land.Smoke rose from the fires in the distance,and every step we took left a trace in the ochresand,as if the earth remembered us.Now, the mornings are softer,the cold uncertain,the dust…
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Ecological Progress around the World
In a world saturated with ecological grief—melting ice caps, burning forests, poisoned waters—it has become easy to believe that the earth is only ever losing. Yet, beyond the noise, something quieter is happening: the planet is healing itself.Below are some of the most promising ecological developments from around the world. 1) Giant Pandas and the…
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Dirge to Harmattan: Call for Submission
Call for Submissions: Dirge to Harmattan (The Green We Left Behind Poetry Contest) Arts Lounge Literary Magazine invites Nigerian poets to submit entries for Dirge to Harmattan, a national poetry contest under The Green We Left Behind initiative. Dirge to Harmattan calls for poems that mourn the gradual disappearance of harmattan due to climate change.…