In the debut issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal Restoration Earth readers are given an overview of the topics and goals of the journal. RE Issue 1 contains articles on environmental philosophy environmental education ecopsychology ecotherapy evolution shamanism as well as short fiction photography and poetry exploring the relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Contributors included in this journal: Arne Naess Alan Drengson Florence Shepard Michael Caley Jorge Conesa-Sevilla Vidya Sarveswaran Mark Glasgow Meredith Ball Lynne Elson Anne Westlund Evin Okçuoğlu Molly Remer Tanya Collings Simon Robinson Christopher Westlund Katherine Batten MacDowell and Mark A. Schroll.