“As I’m photographing it, I notice the shadows the different stems are casting and realize it’s because the sun is going down behind me…then I spot a sign for the Arboretum’s Winter Lights display that’s going on now, and I decide to stick around until dusk to see it.” - @benlockwood.bsky.social

I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁

“As I’m photographing it, I notice the shadows the different stems are casting and realize it’s because the sun is going down behind me…then I spot a sign for the Arboretum’s Winter Lights display that’s going on now, and I decide to stick around until dusk to see it.” - @benlockwood.bsky.social

When we say that the fascist billionaire class has captured legacy media, Bari Weiss killing negative stories about the regime at CBS is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about.

New research finds that marine environments with offshore wind turbines have higher levels of biodiversity and biomass. Turbines provide surfaces for barnacles, algae, and sea sponges, which can support an ecosystem. Things like this show we can design with nature, rather than against it. 🌎🧪🌐🏡

"Pennhurst AI has proposed a 1.3 million square feet campus with multiple data center buildings and onsite power generation...its plans have ignited fierce opposition to the proposal amid increasingly tense townhalls over potential zoning and ordinance changes."

In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...

This issue of the Eco-Update also has a review of @hilaratzabi.bsky.social's eco-poetry collection, "There Are Still Woods" from @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here

In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...

ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news. It's definitely worth checking out. Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: www.briefecology.com...

Staying informed is the first step to combatting the ongoing destruction of our ecosphere. The capitalists who own and operate traditional media no longer want an informed public, because a society that is knowledgeable is harder to manipulate. Don't make it easy for them.

"Abolishing Fossil Fuels is an important text for our current moment. It’s not just enlightening, it’s inspiring. In each case study, Young reveals how an organized minority can win important concessions against seemingly overwhelming odds." - On Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social

"Abolishing Fossil Fuels is an important text for our current moment. It’s not just enlightening, it’s inspiring. In each case study, Young reveals how an organized minority can win important concessions against seemingly overwhelming odds." - On Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social

Kevin A. Young's new book, Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social, is an important read for the climate movement. It highlights the ways that economic disruption has historically been an incredibly effective tool to enact change. 🌎🧪🌐 My full review 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...

From our latest guest essay, by Bill Rhodes: “To add novelty to your winter walks, try cocoon spotting. Be prepared to search for a bit to find their hidden, silken lairs wrapped in fallen leaves, attached to branches, or hanging from bushes” 🦋❄️🌎🌐🧪 www.briefecology.com/p/cocoon-spo...

In Arizona, the @nodesertdatacenter.com is fighting back against a data center project that has been shrouded in controversy. DSA members from @phxdsa.bsky.social and @tucson-dsa.bsky.social are helping build a statewide coalition of community opposition. And it's working. 🧵 (2/4)

And for our eco-fiction review, @benlockwood.bsky.social explores the mixing up of time and space in @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social's short story collection, The Other Shore, from @stelliform.press 🧵 (4/4)

Ecologists from the University of Michigan led a recent study on the impacts of warming on boreal tree growth timing, duration, and magnitude. Their results help disentangle some complexities of forest responses to climate change. 🧵 (3/4)

We've got a jam-packed Eco-Update this week. A community coalition fighting data centers in Arizona, the impacts of climate warming on boreal tree species, and an eco-fiction review. All free to read at the link 👇🌎🧪🌐🏡 🧵 (1/4) www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...

We've got a jam-packed Eco-Update this week. A community coalition fighting data centers in Arizona, the impacts of climate warming on boreal tree species, and an eco-fiction review. All free to read at the link 👇🌎🧪🌐🏡 🧵 (1/4) www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...

Check out this guest essay in Brief Ecology on clubmosses, the oldest group of vascular plants and a source of green biodiversity in the winter woods 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/the-quiet-...

If you want to help us pay the real, human writers who submitted real, human-crafted fiction to @rottingleafmag.bsky.social, become a paid subscriber to Brief Ecology. Be a patron of the human arts. www.briefecology.com/subscribe

Let’s talk about tree bark. 🌎🌐🧪🍁 www.briefecology.com/p/leaf-fall-...

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST

How can we combine community ecology, ecosystem ecology, urban ecology, and integrated land management with communal forms of production, anti-consumerism, library socialism, urban planning, and mutual aid? That’s what Ecologizing Society: Method is all about. 🌎🧪🌐🏡

"This project is based on the premise that we already have all the knowledge and technology we need to create an ecological society." In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social continues the ongoing series, Ecologizing Society: Method www.briefecology.com/p/introducin...

Did you know that every subscription to Brief Ecology comes with the subtle but lingering scent of fresh mountain cedar and pine? Go ahead give it a try www.briefecology.com

Our latest Eco-Update is live! This issue is loaded with the latest ecology-related news and analysis 🌎🏡🌐🧪 🧵 1/4 www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...

Did you know that every subscription to Brief Ecology comes with the subtle but lingering scent of fresh mountain cedar and pine? Go ahead give it a try www.briefecology.com

Scenario: You’re sitting at a table in a saloon drinking whiskey and the doors swing open. A man appears wearing spurs and a six gun and says “I’m looking for the hardest hitting book this side of the Mississippi”. You slap down a copy of this

In our first piece of the issue we cover a recent study published in @antipodeonline.bsky.social that examines how capitalism links trees in British Columbia to energy production in the U.K. 🧵 2/4

Our latest Eco-Update is live! This issue is loaded with the latest ecology-related news and analysis 🌎🏡🌐🧪 🧵 1/4 www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...

In light of the NYT sitting on Epstein/Trump info for years, today would be a great day to cancel your subscription and subscribe to Brief Ecology instead. We’re a publication dedicated to telling the truth. Just saying 👀

Klein’s version of abundance is just more of the same capitalism. It can’t solve the problems that capitalism itself creates. Radical Abundance suggests a different approach that’s worth considering.

Our full submission guidelines are now available. Put it on you calendar: Submissions will open on December 1st! www.briefecology.com/p/rlm-submis...

"The value of Radical Abundance is in the authors’ recognition of the complexity of the capitalist economy." In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Radical Abundance from @plutopress.bsky.social 🌎🏡🌐🧪 www.briefecology.com/p/actual-abu...

My latest is a review of Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social, Bertie Russell, and @plutopress.bsky.social 👇

"The value of Radical Abundance is in the authors’ recognition of the complexity of the capitalist economy." In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Radical Abundance from @plutopress.bsky.social 🌎🏡🌐🧪 www.briefecology.com/p/actual-abu...

Good news: ECOLOGIZING SOCIETY: THEORY, by @benlockwood.bsky.social, is now available to order from @bookshop.org! bookshop.org/a/117974/979...

"...the idea behind Rotting Leaf Magazine is to explore the nature-society binary. To break it down and move it and challenge it. That’s the pretentious answer. I could also say that there’s just not enough weird shit getting published so why not some more?"

"Something I’ve learned is to be relentless about only writing things I want to write and not worrying about what someone else may or may not want to read. There’s no other way to write honestly." -interview with @benlockwood.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Good news: ECOLOGIZING SOCIETY: THEORY, by @benlockwood.bsky.social, is now available to order from @bookshop.org! bookshop.org/a/117974/979...

Some things we’ll be looking for: - Eco-Horror - Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic - Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes - Eco-Surrealism - Eco-Weird - Metaficton - Unreliable Narrators More details here 👇

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

The first book from Brief Ecology press is out! @benlockwood.bsky.social explores the nature-society dynamic and the political theories that could contribute to a more ecological society Order now 👇 a.co/d/2bKyYNW

The first book from Brief Ecology press is out! @benlockwood.bsky.social explores the nature-society dynamic and the political theories that could contribute to a more ecological society Order now 👇 a.co/d/2bKyYNW

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

Our latest Eco-Update is out! In this issue: Ecological displacement in British Columbia, salamander extinction possibility, and an eco-fiction review of the ECO24 anthology from @apexmag.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...