Village / Essay

The Untapped Potential of Family Forests

A vast amount of North America’s forest cover is owned by individuals. Many don’t realize how much they could be doing to improve biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Village / Essay

Who’s Afraid of Bugs?

In partnership with Insectarium

Though insects are a part of our daily lives, they provoke strong and often negative emotions. And yet, they are precious allies of biodiversity. What if we learned to get to know them, so as to better appreciate them?
Village / Essay

The New Wave of Social Saunas

Mobile saunas are reinventing spa culture, making them more accessible in the process. Proponents of this new trend ask us to consider whether laughter may be just as relaxing as silence.
Village / Essay

Sustainable Forestry Is Taking Root in Québec

In partnership with Signature Bois Laurentides

Wood products have an important role to play in addressing climate change, but so do healthy forests. The Laurentian timber industry in Québec is maintaining this delicate balance.

Village / Essay

How the Dutch Made a World Out of Reeds

Erik Raschke takes an intimate look at the outsized role that reeds have played in the architecture and culture of the Netherlands.
Village / Essay

Guerrilla Gardening Is More Vital Than Ever

DIY urban landscaping is the solution we forgot we needed.
Village / Essay

The Powerful Case for Embracing the Bidet

Once stigmatized for its relationship to our intimate parts, the bidet has reconquered hearts and backsides. Here's the story of how a simple toilet accessory is changing our relationship with our bodies.

New Narratives / Essay

Healing Magic

In his struggles with major depression, Sam had tried everything: therapy, healthy lifestyle habits, and medication. The only thing that worked was psilocybin — the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms. One problem: except in a handful of cases, this breakthrough therapy is illegal in Canada.
Village / Essay, Project

Working in Green?

Green desking, or an office among the trees.
New Narratives / Essay

UFOs Are Changing Me

The existence of “unidentified aerial phenomena” is now widely acknowledged, but few seem to care. For writer Tendisai Cromwell, however, the growing evidence for UFOs is subtly shifting her sense of her place in the world.

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