Dear reader,Welcome to the Leonardo Focus Section dedicated to the subject of “flourishing.” We are grateful to all the authors for their affecting and uncommon responses to our call to explore flouri...

Sharing the Leonardo focus issue on flourishing; and inspirations around environmental engineering applications

Rawiri Tapiata (New Zealand) was the videographer for the Indigenous Mycelium Gathering held at Ocamora in September 2025.  Ocamora.org

Drawing design inspiration from lichens, exploring where slow growth is beneficial, and building 'pace harmony' in biotech.

Did anyone ever teach you the difference between dirt and soil?

Fungi as your Futurist is a free toolkit inviting you to be more like a mushroom. Through 12 principles, it poses new ways to design regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. Download n...

Ant, plant, humpback whale, or human––we each begin life as a single cell. And some of us stay that way. Get to know our single-celled relatives like never before.

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the…

Or, Interstitionaries Gonna Interstitate

Imagine the underground as a cosmos, with gravitational fields of kinship and relational depth. This is an essay about soil, space, biotech, and the invisible forces that hold us.

Guest Editors: Ryan McGranaghan, Renee Davis, and Nick Travaglini In a time of disorientation and raw emotion, the question of flourishing becomes even more urgent—and profoundly collective. We invite...

Used medicinally by Native Americans for centuries, Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

Listen now | How psilocybin microdosing may support women navigating menopause’s brain and hormone shifts.

"There are lots of studies devoted to what A.I. is doing to the human brain," the poet and artist told the mycologist Giuliana Furci. "It's actually rotting the brain."

Opening up to “a supracellular state,” Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the more-than-human: as river, as mycelial network, as the blood of a monarch butterfly.

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Ghost pipe as a guide; art as a method for ecological inquiry and world-making.

Bringing in the voice of the forest, four members of the More Than Human Life Collective share the story of co-composing a song with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador and explore how its authorsh...

YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake - Topic

Though famed for his voyage around the world on HMS Beagle, with its auspicious stop in the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin was actually a notorious homebody. From the day he stepped back ashore …

Part 1: collective governance within intermediary organisations

Part 1 — Transition Models and Metaphor: Proposing a new model for systems transformation

In Woodland, I documented the forests around my home in Manitoba.  I then transformed the photographs with paint, metal leaf, holographic tape, photo-spotting ink, and photoshop to create a more hones...

Some of you may know I bop back into reporting from time to time. Well, in November 2023 I reported two pieces on a newfound organ system…