The air was bitter, a hot wind enveloping the whole of the globe in red hues. Cracked lines snaked through the center of the earth, gliding over ice and melted white before passing through extreme deserts and faded green. The … Read the rest

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, and all those it may concern,

I have no idea if anyone actually reads the letters sent to this office. Especially in this time of COVID-19. I’ve sent you 29 already; this is number 30. So … Read the rest

Dear Earth,

Sorry it’s been so long since I wrote last. I guess it just kind of slipped my mind. Has it really been that many years since we talked? I’m having trouble remembering what you were telling me all … Read the rest

Didn’t we all give comfort to ourselves
by allowing thoughts to slip through our minds?

Guilty but subtle thoughts like:
Nothing will ever happen to our earth.
It’s fine.
Someone will have a cure.

Only to be shocked at … Read the rest

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, and all those it may concern,

My name is Amelia Penney-Crocker. I’m a 14 year old Nova Scotian writer and climate activist. Since December, I’ve been writing you a letter a week and this letter marks … Read the rest

Earth you have grown
so much
Like a baby in its mother’s eyes
You have…
thrived…
You went through life, death
Deconstruction a bit a
Reconstruction
We cut down your trees
Then plant them like weeds
In places where there … Read the rest

Ashen fields
Their purpose yet to be revealed
Like blood congealed
Lies are spoken
Apologies now forsaken
Empty words for the empty field
Lies revealed
Fights on streets for the right of life
To them is it not trivial?
All … Read the rest

Is this Earth?
A planet once so young
So full
So safe
Where animals could live and flourish
Without the possibility
Of raging fires or
Overhunting
A healthy green world
A world alive with animals

Is this Earth?
The peace … Read the rest

Coronavirus I ask why
Why are you here?
Why are you making our people fear?
Why did you come
at this time of year?

2020 was supposed to be
new beginnings
all of us living together

I don’t think any … Read the rest

With the world’s environmental health quickly deteriorating, everyone has to make an effort to stop the global warming crisis. It will only get worse and if global nations don’t step up and take action now, it will be irreversible. This … Read the rest

Can you contribute to fighting climate change while using your cellphone? Ecosia says you can.

Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin. It was founded in 2009 by Christian Kroll. How does it work? When you search a website … Read the rest

As we stand on the land of the people who stood strong … do we think?
As we stand on the land of the people who we kicked and beat … do we think?
As we stand on the land … Read the rest

to my unborn daughter,
i hope i will one day meet you,
hold you in my arms; raw and pink,
only just departed from the warmth of my womb,
i hope i will cry tears of joy,
forgo those of … Read the rest

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, and all those it may concern,

My name is Amelia Penney-Crocker and this is my tenth letter to you about the climate crisis. I write a letter every week, and last week I was very happy … Read the rest

On Friday, March 6, 2020, OFOS attended the 2020 Girls Conference at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. We held a workshop, wrote collective poems, and listed what we can do for the environment. The Girls Conference is held every … Read the rest

A neon glow in rows and rows and rows
Radioactive I suppose
Brain cells dead, I suppose
The empty sheet, life transposed

I suppose

Pick a future and now “Look, a rose!”
And there it goes, “The future or the … Read the rest

My world is in pieces
Pieces that are not easy to pick up
Little pieces that can easily get lost
Little pieces that are hard to find

My world is your world
It’s our world
One world
Slowly going through … Read the rest

I’m looking for a government.
One whose climate policy
Is more than climate hypocrisy.
One who stays true
To what they say they will do
Instead of moving so fast
To more oil and gas.

I’m looking for a government… Read the rest

I am sorry for the future generations
I am sorry that you didn’t get to see a tree
Because we were blinded
by greed for a booming economy
I am sorry that there is not enough air
on this earth … Read the rest

Food forms an essential connection between humans and the environment, linking us to place, to culture and, as Lenore Newman explains in Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food (ECW Press, 2019), to time. Our diets have always … Read the rest