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                                06, 
                                2024</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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                                Time to Sow</H1>
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                                should plant some seeds</EM>. That was my first 
                                waking thought on November 6, as the sun rose on 
                                a United States that would soon have to live 
                                through another four years with a 
                                climate-change-denying despot as its leader.</P>
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                                thought kept circling at the back of my weary 
                                mind even as I agonized over what’s to come: the 
                                attacks on environmental safeguards and climate 
                                action, on immigrants, on gender nonconforming 
                                persons, on journalists, and on the civic 
                                institutions that keep our (admittedly 
                                imperfect) democracy running. We’ve lived 
                                through a version of this before, but I fear 
                                President Trump 2.0 is going to be more vicious 
                                and targeted in his efforts to undermine a 
                                functional government.</P>
                                <P 
                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"><EM>But 
                                the seeds. If you plant them now, come spring, 
                                you’ll have peas, and carrots, and 
                                bright-stemmed rainbow chard, and pretty 
                                wildflowers</EM>, the voice in my head insisted. 
                                I brushed the idea aside as frivolous. This was 
                                no time to focus on flowers. There was much more 
                                important work to be done. We had to find ways 
                                to mount a defense against this slide into 
                                fascism, and we had to do it fast.</P>
                                <P 
                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">But 
                                when I turned my attention back to the even more 
                                immediate task at hand — wrapping up our Winter 
                                2025 print issue — I was confronted with seeds 
                                again.</P>
                                <P 
                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">There 
                                was veteran ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan 
                                writing about the ongoing Israel-Palestine 
                                conflict that threatens to displace the 
                                painstakingly saved “crop seeds and their hardy 
                                wild relatives” that “help humanity after wars, 
                                floods, droughts, or famine” (“Refugee Seeds"). 
                                There was journalist Marisa Agha reporting from 
                                the US Southwest about Indigenous farmers’ 
                                efforts to bring back long-lost seed varieties 
                                (“Reviving Lost Relatives”). And there was my 
                                colleague Zoe Loftus-Farren’s cover feature, 
                                describing the brave conservationists in Ukraine 
                                and how “a lush riparian forest” has already 
                                reseeded itself on the bed of a reservoir after 
                                an explosion drained it last year (“War and 
                                Parks”).</P>
                                <P 
                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">The 
                                message about seeds — about life itself — was 
                                laid out in plain sight in these stories.</P>
                                <P 
                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">“In 
                                this time of collapse of old worlds and 
                                monumental transition, we must think like 
                                seeds,” Rowen White, seed keeper and farmer from 
                                the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, wrote in an 
                                Instagram post just a few days later. “We must 
                                breathe past the gut-wrenching fear of total 
                                destruction, for just beyond that precipice is 
                                life renewed, seedcoats coming undone to sprout 
                                the endless creative potential of what is 
                                possible for our children and 
grandchildren.”</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">Yes, 
                                the road ahead will be tough. There will be loss 
                                and pain and suffering. There will be places and 
                                people we won’t be able to help, which is hard 
                                to accept. But if we keep up the work of sowing 
                                and nurturing the seeds of justice, compassion, 
                                and love, eventually beauty will re-emerge from 
                                this chaos.</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px">I 
                                suppose I’ll go plant some seeds in my backyard 
                                after all. Spring isn’t that far off.</P>
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                              style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"><STRONG>Maureen 
                              Nandini Mitra</STRONG><BR>Editor-in-Chief, 
                              <EM>Earth Island Journal</EM></P>
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                              This is a version of my Letter from the 
                              Editor published in our Winter 2025 
                              </SPAN><SPAN>print issue. Check out a quick 
                              breakdown on the issue below.</SPAN></P>
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                                <H5><EM>Photo by </EM><A style="COLOR: #8dc7de" 
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                              latest print edition 
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                              be arriving in mailboxes and hitting newsstands 
                              any day now.</SPAN></STRONG></P></TD>
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                                class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN>In this <SPAN 
                                style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">issue you will 
                                find</SPAN>:</SPAN></STRONG></P>
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                                Vignettes of Ukrainian conservationists trying 
                                to protect the country’s wild landscapes amid 
                                the turbulence of war.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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                                A complementary essay about an overlooked 
                                collateral of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict — 
                                the Middle East’s most valued repositories of 
                                plant biodiversity.</P>
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                                A report on the failed industry-funded efforts 
                                to use genetic engineering to save the iconic 
                                American chestnut.</P>
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                                A personal essay by a North Dakota writer, 
                                describing how the town he grew up in is being 
                                transformed into a testing site for unproven 
                                carbon storage technology.</P>
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                                A feature that explores how Indigenous 
                                communities in the American Southwest are 
                                working to safeguard native seeds and 
                                traditional farming 
                                knowledge.<SPAN><SPAN><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></P>
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                                A conversation with Indigenous activists and 
                                authors Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson 
                                about the connection between environmental 
                                violence and bodily violence, the antidotes to 
                                colonialism and capitalism, and their new book, 
                                <EM>We Will Be 
                                Jaguars.</EM></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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                                An essay from self-described “artivist” Melody 
                                Cooper about taking a stand for 
                                climate-vulnerable communities through TV, 
                                plays, and short-stories.</P>
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