Free Zine Friday #3: Earth Day edition

Sometimes on Friday I highlight a few zines I love that are free to read! For more free zines, check out my big free zines page.

Knowing the Land is Resistance
by the KLR Collective

The zine is really a picture of building strong relationships with forests and natural spaces, in this case the Carolinan forest, getting to know it, and what that really means. It’s beautiful and no matter where you are, it shows you how you can get to know nature, and love it, in every expression. It’s summed up pretty well by this quote from the zine: “To know, to truly know the forest is to love it, and whoever loves it will fight for its welfare.”

44 pages, color

new hearts new bones #2
by cheering and waving press

There are like 21 issues of new hearts new bones (all available to read for free!), but I’ve picked this one in particular because I think it’s most appropriate for Earth Day--it's about liberation and an underlying connection with yourself as a being on Earth. nhnb is a collage of drawings, magazine clippings, ads and junk printed out, literal garbage, handwritten text, copies books and mags... & what’s really awesome about it is how it’s all integrated together, everything put together entirely based on what it communicates and not the type of medium.

24 pages, color, website here

Destroy Your Lawn!
by anonymous

Okay, so hopefully by now we all know that lawns are very environmentally-unfriendly (if you don’t, you definitely need to read this zine!). I’ve been anti-lawn for years, but I still got a lot out of this super short but thoroughly informative zine! There’s a brief history of lawns and suggestions for what to do with your (and others’) lawns. I also appreciate how it acknowledges that lawns are so deeply ingrained in American culture that just letting it grow is sometimes not a possibility because you could face fines from the city, and it still gives you other options that could work for you. (I totally appreciate this because growing up our neighbors were constantly complaining to the city about our lawn, so “just leave it alone” is definitely not always viable).

8 page minizine, b&w