Brief Ecology turns 3 this month, and to celebrate, everything we’ve published is 40% off with discount code “3YEARS”! All proceeds go towards paying our contributing writers. Help us create a more ecological society 🌎 www.briefecology.com/shop

I just realized that @briefecology.bsky.social is turning 3 years old this month, and maybe I’m a little biased but that feels like a better thing to celebrate than the embarrassment that is the US right now. I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done so far. And lots more to come. ✊️ 🌎️

I have mixed feelings about the Global Justice Platform, so I wrote a few words about it

Private markets can't deliver a rapid #decarbonization of the economy. It's internal features prevent the coordination required to transform production. 🌎 @brusselermel.bsky.social writes for Brief Ecology: Decarbonization Is a Coordination Problem – and Private Markets Can't Solve It.

Our latest issue is out and it’s looking sharp. Pick yourself up a copy: www.briefecology.com/shop/p/plane...

Our latest issue is out and it’s looking sharp. Pick yourself up a copy: www.briefecology.com/shop/p/plane...

Our latest issue, Planetary Possibilities 🌎, is out now! 🔋 Decarbonization | @brusselermel.bsky.social 🌐 Global Justice Report | @benlockwood.bsky.social 📖 Ecofiction Review | Adam Garnet Jones 🍂 The Rotting Leaf | @lynnesargent.bsky.social www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

The recently published Global Justice Platform is a moderate attempt to decarbonize and tax wealth, at the global scale. It's also probably the best deal capitalism will get in the long term. 🌎 @benlockwood.bsky.social writes for Brief Ecology about the platform's strengths and weaknesses

A nice piece of writing about a top in new to me, the Global Justice Platform.

The recently published Global Justice Platform is a moderate attempt to decarbonize and tax wealth, at the global scale. It's also probably the best deal capitalism will get in the long term. 🌎 @benlockwood.bsky.social writes for Brief Ecology about the platform's strengths and weaknesses

Private markets can't deliver a rapid #decarbonization of the economy. It's internal features prevent the coordination required to transform production. 🌎 @brusselermel.bsky.social writes for Brief Ecology: Decarbonization Is a Coordination Problem – and Private Markets Can't Solve It.

Capitalism is a dictatorship of profit. The subservience of all else to growth is antithetical to democracy. An ecological society should reflect the diversity and complexity that ecosystems naturally produce, and true democracy is what allows that diversity to flourish. www.briefecology.com

Our latest issue, Planetary Possibilities 🌎, is out now! 🔋 Decarbonization | @brusselermel.bsky.social 🌐 Global Justice Report | @benlockwood.bsky.social 📖 Ecofiction Review | Adam Garnet Jones 🍂 The Rotting Leaf | @lynnesargent.bsky.social www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

Planetary Possibilities, the latest issue of The Eco Update, drops tomorrow. But YOU, dear reader, can get it early: www.briefecology.com/shop/p/plane...

Check out our new bioRxiv preprint examining how scientific colonialism influences where reptile type material is deposited worldwide 🐊🐢🦎🐍🌐 @mmoroti.bsky.social

New paper documenting impacts of drought on birds in the already arid SW US. 🦉🌐🌎 TLDR: It's not good. * Abundance declines in response to drought for most species * In this region drought-related declines in the south may be pushing ranges northward conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The bond covers the cost of cleaning up the damage left by abandoned oil/gas wells; that cost would fall on taxpayers who are already paying a fortune for gas and utilities. And methane is a super pollutant: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/c... (gift). We'll have an opportunity to object. 🌎

Because US oil and gas companies are struggling to survive on their historic profits, Trump is (1) lowering the cost from $500,000 to $25,000 of the bonds companies pay when purchasing a drilling lease and (2) eliminating the requirement that companies detail their plans to limit methane emissions.

Capitalism is a dictatorship of profit. The subservience of all else to growth is antithetical to democracy. An ecological society should reflect the diversity and complexity that ecosystems naturally produce, and true democracy is what allows that diversity to flourish. www.briefecology.com

Running out of epithets. Energy resilience fund for vulnerable communities/people to provide solar backup. Admin. reallocating it to bankrupt fossil fuel utility/pipeline outside normal vetting and funding process and without Congressional approval. 🌎 grist.org/energy/insid...

Thrilled to see this out in #CommsEarthEnv - great job by our #PhD student Beth Langley! We show that the #Baltic, #Barents & #Chuchki Seas are hotspots #Arctic and #SubArctic marine #OrganicCarbon with high global stock BUT low protection!! 🧪🦑🌍https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03720-8

Have you read our latest issue of The Eco Update? Get the digital magazine here 👇 www.briefecology.com/shop/p/the-s...

We are very excited to announce that our monthly digital magazine, The Eco Update, is now taking submissions. We are looking for nonfiction pieces, 800 words or less, on recent ecological research, eco-politics, eco-activism, and eco-fiction reviews. We pay $30/piece. More details here:

We are very excited to announce that our monthly digital magazine, The Eco Update, is now taking submissions. We are looking for nonfiction pieces, 800 words or less, on recent ecological research, eco-politics, eco-activism, and eco-fiction reviews. We pay $30/piece. More details here:

Have you read our latest issue of The Eco Update? Get the digital magazine here 👇 www.briefecology.com/shop/p/the-s...

As a compliment to my story, "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," Rotting Leaf invited me to write a little mini-essay on Eco-Fiction. I hope you enjoy it!

"Eco-fiction for me is the deepest expression of this moral imperative–to present the natural world, this thing that has been cast as something so alien to us, as something worthy of empathy." - @lynnesargent.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Desert dunes, but make them strange 🏜️👇

It's new story day! Find "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," out now with @rottingleafmag.bsky.social. www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

"I have a waterskin at hand, and strip down naked, feeling the uncomfortable pulse of my bladder. I bear my skin to the moonlight, hoping it will be tempting enough, dreading it will be too tempting." - @lynnesargent.bsky.social in "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs"

The sole mission of Brief Ecology is to help spread, develop, and produce the information needed to make society more ecological. That’s it. That’s why we’re here

Our digital magazines are thoughtfully crafted, featuring extra photography and an exclusively *human* design. Get the full issue 👇: www.briefecology.com/shop/p/the-s...

🌲 "Ultimately, the stories here invite us to redefine our ecological relationships. When our relation to our environment becomes unsustainable, or even antagonistic, there are consequences." - @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Boreal, from @strangewildspress.bsky.social

"In short, we are facing a planetary crisis. Which is to say that the ecological systems of planet Earth that allow humanity to survive are breaking down" - @benlockwood.bsky.social in Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

Our digital magazines are thoughtfully crafted, featuring extra photography and an exclusively *human* design. Get the full issue 👇: www.briefecology.com/shop/p/the-s...

🌲 "Ultimately, the stories here invite us to redefine our ecological relationships. When our relation to our environment becomes unsustainable, or even antagonistic, there are consequences." - @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Boreal, from @strangewildspress.bsky.social

"In short, we are facing a planetary crisis. Which is to say that the ecological systems of planet Earth that allow humanity to survive are breaking down" - @benlockwood.bsky.social in Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

"This is the central insight of the work: the energy transition is not constrained by a lack of land, but by the competing use and value of land." - @adamgallaherphd.bsky.social in our latest issue 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

"This is the central insight of the work: the energy transition is not constrained by a lack of land, but by the competing use and value of land." - @adamgallaherphd.bsky.social in our latest issue 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

Hot off the press, the latest issue of The Eco Update is live! 🌐 The Energy-Agriculture-Biodiversity Nexus 🌎 Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class 📷 Nature Photo of the Month ✊ In Defense of Action 🌲 Ecofiction Review: Boreal www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

It's almost June, which means summer is in the air. Or is that just the putrid scent of decay, here to remind us of our ever-dissolving fleshy corpses? Who can say, but one thing is for sure: We open to submissions on June 1st at midnight EST!

Hot off the press, the latest issue of The Eco Update is live! 🌐 The Energy-Agriculture-Biodiversity Nexus 🌎 Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class 📷 Nature Photo of the Month ✊ In Defense of Action 🌲 Ecofiction Review: Boreal www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

New issue dropping tomorrow 👀

Can worker co-ops deliver a democratic ecosocialism? In our latest piece we review "Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy" from @plutopress.bsky.social 🌎 www.briefecology.com/eco-nonficti...

Can worker co-ops deliver a democratic ecosocialism? In our latest piece we review "Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy" from @plutopress.bsky.social 🌎 www.briefecology.com/eco-nonficti...

I am once again looking for more ecofiction to review at @briefecology.bsky.social. I’m particularly interested in eco horror and the eco weird from the Global South, the trans community, and other underrepresented groups. Send your recs my way!

It's a house and it's growing and it's very cool and weird. Check it out

Have you seen the houses growing in the forest? Have you looked inside them? Gaze into the unknown with this one from Tabitha Soper www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

“The first sign of growth was a lone shingle covered in pine needles on the forest floor.” - Tabitha Soper in “Percentage, House” www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

We’re running some printing experiments 👀