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Mar 3, 2026 33 min

The Springing Time – Melanie Challenger

from Emergence Magazine Podcast

Can we learn from more-than-human beings how to bring our bodies into a more direct conversation with the seasons? In this week’s story, bioethics and history researcher Melanie Challenger explores how our culture insulates us from experiencing seasonal signals in the natural world, ultimately impeding our ability to respond to ecological change. Examining how animals and plants translate important shifts in the land into meaningful activity, Melanie reflects on what it would take for humans to reawaken the same attunement to the changes, great and small, unfolding around us. Read the essay. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons. Photo credit: Credit: Alex Strohl / Verb Photo

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