We Are From Earth
The whole Earth seen from space, cloud systems over ocean and continents.

Stories

The editorial work

Essays, field notes, photo stories, conversations and questions. Published when the work is ready rather than to a schedule.

Photo by NASA Earth Observatory

Essay

25 September 2026

Perspective

We Are From Earth

Why an obvious statement turns out to be the most useful thing we can say about ourselves, and why this project exists.

Photo Story

25 September 2026

Earth

This Is Home

A descent from deep space to a single living thing, and the argument that planetary systems and individual lives are the same story at different scales.

Essay

25 September 2026

Perspective

What Does a Mature Civilisation Look Like?

Our capability is compounding and our judgement is not. If maturity is the gap between what a civilisation can do and what it can handle doing, it is worth asking what closing that gap would actually require.

Essay

25 September 2026

Perspective

The View From Outside

They Told Us To Look After It

Almost everyone half remembers that the visitors came with an environmental warning. A dated corpus of 2,721 contact accounts says otherwise, and what it says instead is stranger.