Ecology Stories

Jack didn't ask to save the world. He just wanted to run his convenience store in peace. Then he woke up in a wasteland. No town. No neighbors. No Wi-Fi. Just cracked red earth, dead trees, and a voice in his head calling itself the Limitless Omniversal Supply System. The LOSS System. Jack laughed for a very long time. The system was not amused. Now he has a fully stocked store, unlimited water and electricity, and a system that's somehow both all-powerful and deeply offended by everything he says. To survive in a world where the average temperature hits 52°C, Jack will have to sell supplies, make allies, build shelter, and figure out why his little store might be the first step toward bringing a dead world back to life. One cold soda at a time.

How a short work of eco-sci-fi became an archive of all life on Earth

This humanity I love, this humanity I despise It is all that we have, all that we are But what does it mean to be human ? Unavoidably, inevitably, irreducibly human Nothing more, nothing less Only human There are no gods, no devils here Only humans

A novella describes a possible transcendental life of spiritual ecology in the tradition of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist and Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. A man and a woman do no more than find each other and set out to contrive a life together. But in this process, they come to live by an obscure river, and gradually open a luminous gateway into the very best of life. The natural events occurring in season after season and graceful provocations from the Old Boss, a river-keeper, kindle an awakening. The central protagonists-He and She-are presented without detailed characterization. Because of who they ultimately are, just as you and I, she and he might have a thousand true names--something akin to names such as "Bright Water" (Chosin*) or "Cloud Gate" (Yun Men**) or "True Emptiness" (Chan Kong***) or "Clear Mirror" (Kyong Ho****). Our view is so very small. Ordinary reality is an expression of a very real, extraordinary super-reality. Our true home is to be found in the landscape that designs us. *Japanese **Chinese ***Vietnamese ****Korean In a time of possible coming ecocide, The River Keepers is a novella that explores the grace that persists in wildness both within and without. Lance Kinseth has published creative nonfiction essays in literary magazines, and a book-length collection of essays. For "Homing," The North American Review, 272(4), Dec, 1987, pp. 10-19, Editor Robley Wilson wrote, "...a long and keenly observed essay on Nature, by Lance Kinseth. It has been a while since we were fortunate enough to print so sensitive a praise of River, of Earth, of Sun." For River Eternal: The Wonder of Common and Ashen Days Alongside a Prairie River. New York: Viking, 1989, Barry Lopez wrote, "In River Eternal, Lance Kinseth has built an elegant bridge between nature and culture. His vision is liberating, his ideas fresh, his language clean and beautiful. This is wondrous, invigorating, and humane work."

Nature is a wonder! A poem, loosely in the form of an English Sonnet The cover picture is my own photo, and is of public artwork by someone unknown. The quote in the picture reads "The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity."

Hey, so today is Earth day. I've written a short poem on how we have influenced the environment.

Maya Reeves's research is dismissed as pseudoscience. Her mentor is no longer around. Her career is hanging by a thread.But deep in the Amazon rainforest, she's found something impossible: huge, ancient trees that seem to communicate with each other and warn each other about future events. Mateo Oliveira holds seven generations of indigenous knowledge about the forest's secrets. He's also the last person Maya expected to have as a research partner. Together, they'll prove that the forest thinks, communicates, and remembers-if they can survive long enough to document it. A slow-burn romance between two scientists discovering that some patterns are worth following, even when they lead somewhere unexpected.

Humanity immigrates to a new planet. But something unexpected happens to the last spaceship... Short - story! Cover photo by herberthaseeneder

Since the beginning of the Earth, Millions of years back You came into existence. Water began to flow upon your Heart, Sunrays fall unto your surface, Seeds began to germinate. You nourishes this germinating seeds Into a full-fledged plant. Leaves began to appear, Stem protrudes side by side. Flower buds appear, Attracting the Birds & Bees. Meanwhile, they began to build their shelter. By then, your whole surface Is cover up by green grasses And by green trees, Letting our planet appears lively again.

The world is terrorized by unexplained plagues. Buildings implode in green clouds. The media called these attacks the Green Outbursts. The White Dream, claims hundreds of thousands of lives. This disease begins with white spots. Jasmin Nevelsteen knows she is not normal. She comes from a family of dryads, with deep roots in Flanders, but she is not chosen by the trees to become one too and tap into the same powers as her father and older sister. She is, however, blessed with two other abilities. She can hack computer networks.... and she can occasionally see ghosts of murdered people. 2013 is a year full of setbacks. Her best friend died from an opioid overdose. After the Green Eruption in London, her father and her eldest sister turn on each other, with tragic consequences. And she wakes up one day with some white spots on her arm. She takes an assignment in Japan and discovers what dark spider web she has become entangled in.

ალბათ ხშირად გიფიქრიათ სამყაროს აღსასრულზე , მეც ხშირად ვფიქრობ და მუდამ თვალწინ მიდგას ის ეპიზოდი როდესაც ადამიანი სამყაროს ბოლოს უღებს . დიახ , უკვლებლივ ყველგან და ყოველთვის თან მსდევს ეს სცენა . ადამიანი წამში მილიონჯერ ასწრაფებს დედამიწის აღსასრულს . ვიცი , მეც კი ერთ-ერთი მადგანი ვიყავი ამ ყველაფრისა , სანამ ...

This short editorial explains the dangers of glyphosate-based herbicides on human, animal, and ecological health. I highly recommend that you share this with your followers

Marcelia, the angel of lands, is greedy to expand her territory on Ecovia's egg (the planet) and initiates a war with her sister, Cordelia, the angel of seas. After many innocent plants and animals become a casualty of the war, it will be up to Mother Naturella to stop them from destroying all life on it.

2074: while post-apocalyptic years are looming, humanity indirectly grapples with hard questions about intelligence

~ COMPLETE ~ The #PlanetOrPlastic writing contest (by @NationalGeographic) inspired me because the topic is so important to me, to all of us I hope. I know the deadline's past. I know my story's over 500 words. But I still wanted to share it. I think it's always nice to read and react. Particularly on a subject like this one. So here you go. Hope it'll bring about discussion and reflection. Also hope you'll like the main character ^^ P.S. : Please be gentle because I haven't really re-read it. And English isn't my mother tongue. So there WILL BE grammar errors or such. P.P.S.: It's not actually only focusing on the #PlanetOrPlastic topic... it's also about hazing. Bullying and fighting against bullying is for me one of the most important things in the world.

In a world where political farce and media circus sometimes border on parody, this series of short stories aims to defuse the sterile debates and controversies that follow day after day.

A scientist solves a problem. The solution becomes a bigger problem. Well, in this case, a "smaller" problem. Translated from the original story "Ağaçlar Ayaklanınca" by its author.