Ecology
An ORA Research Zine By Alejo di Risio, Belén Felix, & Mauro Fernández
“We have been taught nature is separate from us. We are searching for ways to heal, learn, and help others find their way.”
One with Nature: Natural Narratives That Inspire Action
Every forest starts as a tree.
This zine is the result of a journey with ORA Fellows across Africa, India, and Latin America—people whose work offers living responses to the polycrisis. Through conversations about land, memory, identity, and belonging, a different understanding of ecology began to emerge.
Rather than presenting findings alone, this zine invites readers into a story: a walk through a forest where questions become companions, landscapes become teachers, and new ways of relating to the living world slowly come into view.
Spanish version coming soon…
Our findings
Themes Along the Journey
Who Is "We?"
What happens when rivers, forests, animals, ancestors, and communities are no longer seen as separate from ourselves? This chapter explores kinship as the foundation for ecological action.
Care of Place
Across continents, ORA Fellows describe care not as an environmental obligation but as an ongoing relationship with the places that have shaped them—and continue to shape who they become.
The Unnamed
Some forms of knowing resist explanation. Beyond language lies a sense of profound interconnectedness that many Fellows describe through story, ritual, spirituality, and lived experience.
The Unnamed
Some forms of knowing resist explanation. Beyond language lies a sense of profound interconnectedness that many Fellows describe through story, ritual, spirituality, and lived experience.
“Implementation becomes easier when action grows from a coherent relationship with the world.”
