@maearth.bsky.social great talk with Nate Hagens. Follow me back and we can chat. I have much to offer. www.linkedin.com/posts/nate-h...

There are pros and cons to traditional and indigenous ways — they can be stifling, restrictive, wrongheaded. But longevity is an earned endowment. Eco-whatevs are toddlers, vulnerable to even newer, younger cultural shifts, whether better or worse. cooldesign.substack.com/p/change

In 1974, Alex and Cynthia opened the Tempeh Lab in a small, cramped house trailer with a linoleum floor in a hippy commune. It was among the first businesses to crack the nut on how to feed 8 billion people without destroying the Earth, using fermentation peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/07/we-w...

Could a plant that grows knee-high reverse climate change? medium.com/@cooldesign/...

What Cynthia’s life tells us all is that the young idealism of your 20’s needn’t be wasted on going to jail or the army, or frittered away by endless pleasure-seeking. If you try something hard, you might fail. It might stink. But keep trying. Just do it open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

The algae swamp had become a metaphor. Climate change is real, and lasting. They share a solution, and it is not an election. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/06/burk...

Why not use biochar on the Reflecting Pool algae? Could it be because a few weeks or months ago, that black powder was carbon in the atmosphere, heating the planet, and now, transformed and put to work, it will be cooling the climate for centuries? cooldesign.substack.com/p/burkes-law

Does anyone know what the over/under was on Hormuz opening last week? Or how much crypto changed hands betting the Lebanese ceasefire? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/06/toy-...

Personally, I would love to see the Iranian Revolutionary Guard rename the strait in honor of the martyr financier who gave their country a half-trillion-dollar windfall www.patreon.com/peaksurfer/posts/toy-wars-161443627 @leonsimons.bsky.social @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social @stephenleahy.bsky.social

There may be rejoicing in the streets, but it is likely that very little will be passing Hormuz for the foreseeable future www.patreon.com/peaksurfer/p... @citizenbrown1.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @rreich.bsky.social @Caitoz.bsky.social @nickbreeze.genn.cc

The builders of data centers have discovered a problem with the Strait closure. The high priests of “move fast and break things” have been disrupted into dependency on stability, which is at least a coherent ending open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

In Permaculture, we like to say the best designs are aikido, not karate. Stress is caused when humans and nature collide. Harmony is restored when humans adapt to nature’s way. Water is the easiest communicator of that way. Watersheds define human ecosystems peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/06/thin...

What is the sound of one rock? Bill Zeedyk thought he had heard that when he stumbled upon a solution to the climate crisis. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Roosevelt called the CCC his “tree army,” but for the past century, like Ents, they’ve slumbered as Middle-earth burned. They could be summoned again. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

What do DJT, FDR, Al Capone, and Joe Kennedy Sr have in common? Style. www.patreon.com/posts/parish...

The DOGE attitude towards the environment severs the informational loop between people and the living systems that support them—replacing intimate geographical knowledge with supply chains, replacing watersheds with water bills, replacing place with address. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-parish...

The speed of disinformation, powered now by A.I., outcompetes truth by such a large margin that civil society itself risks descent into warlord-style dystopia open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @herbsimmens.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Viral disinformation kills just like other viruses. Trump killed an estimated 1.23 million people from Covid alone. Historically speaking, that is only six hundredths of a Stalin. Only two hundredths of a Genghis Khan. But give the man time. He is still going. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/hant...

A part of the reason for the Hanta outbreak may have been the winter Patagonia skipped in 2025. A study published in Nature reported that nearly 60% of infectious diseases are aggravated by climatic hazards, through more than 1000 unique transmission pathways. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Whether it is a Thucydides Trap or trying to fill an inside Strait, the real game here is about dominance display. Where is Jane Goodall when we need her? And why are we still stuck in ape-mode? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/mars...

The Epstein War ballooned the deficit 100X any DOGE cuts. In an alliance-entangled world, the whole show implodes now, just as a Dust Bowl returns. A perfect storm. The clever are departing for Mars. #dontlookup open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @meidasjordy.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social

Shortages of fertilizer are causing more countries to go organic. To succeed, it helps to understand quantum entanglement of the soil-food-gut-manure universe peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-... @hughhunt.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social

The new US Farm bill passed by the House last week mentions biochar 53 times! Given the unsolvable war at the Epstein Strait, which is blocking 1/3 of the world’s fertilizer, it could not be more timely. Grow organic! cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-woman-...

This is less about water and more about jet fuel. Hormuz was a gambler’s bet and a losing strait. Now Vegas must pay out bigly peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/when...

How will a narrow body of water halfway around the world affect the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio? cooldesign.substack.com/p/when-the-h... @hpacoalition.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social @rreich.bsky.social @Caitoz.bsky.social

Super El Niño forming. Beaches will be awash in seaweed. Algae is easily defeated with H2O2-saturated #biochar, but humans remain vulnerable to a CO2-saturated atmosphere peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/what... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

The least acknowledged constraint is the human failure to reckon with the oldest equation in ecology — that carrying capacity is not a suggestion, and that population, given resources, will expand to meet and exceed it medium.com/@cooldesign/... @hpacoalition.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Democracy is belief-dependent. So, refreshingly, is autocracy. Dictatorships are just social contracts with worse catering and no easy exit cooldesign.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Elon and the Tech Bros think A.I. will guarantee everyone an upperclass life. They just overlook one truth: all economies are built upon energy, especially robot economies peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/move...

The US claims Iran is a nuclear threat while gutting safety and proliferation protection. “It’s a hot industry, it’s a brilliant industry,” said Trump, flanked by nuclear energy CEOs in the Oval Office. He added: “And it’s become very safe.” open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Mob wives of Miami? What dots connect major crime and oligarchs? Following the money leads to 1600 Pennsylvania Av. Here’s another Puzo sequel… peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

This week, there’s an Easter Egg for Patreon subscribers: a chapter from my next book www.patreon.com/posts/godfat...

The time has come. Words to live by cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-godfat... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @hpacoalition.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Adorno described, with the tools of 1962, the precise mechanism by which Facebook's News Feed algorithm would, 45 years later, discover that outrage travels six times faster than calm analysis open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

If sanity were to return, what are some ways we could lock in protections for basic rights that we are watching be destroyed in real time now? Is there a vax for MAGA? Can we make one? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-a...

Future historians will shake their heads in disbelief and puzzlement as they try to parse what happened in the 21st Century. Maybe a sun cycle? That it brought us Donald Trump, tho, was incredibly bad luck. It was a stress test for democracy. www.patreon.com/posts/godfat...

In a confrontation between the US and Iran, one needs to ask, who’s better equipped to live in the 12th century if it comes to that? medium.com/@cooldesign/...

It is not enough to protest. The question is whether we can restructure human societies to meet the planet’s standards rather than expecting the planet to adjust. substack.com/home/post/p-... @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

Some people get to play out their childhood traumas in larger theaters open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

In the final analysis, what do the price of oil, the deployment of the army, and the perils and promise of A.I. all have in common? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

After Spain refused US military use of its bases, the Don promised to “cut off all trade with Spain.” 1. Spain would be violating laws if its bases were used without a UN resolution; 2. Cutting trade with Spain would violate GATT Articles I and II; 3. It would end with EU cutting all trade with US

Operation Epstein Fury will be a bad memory someday but in the meantime, Nuremberg-like trials will populate Spandau-like prisons peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/drai...

Assuming POTUS does not invoke war powers to suspend the midterms, what secrets might Congress find in the swamps? cooldesign.substack.com/p/draining-t...

I don't often agree with MAGA but they are right: if you get lost while hiking, you should retrace to find the trail. It’s the same for climate change or the Iran nuclear deal peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-n...

We evolved with remarkable capacities, but also with susceptibilities—tribalism, emotion‑driven reasoning, hero‑worship. A 32-count felon with a history of grift, bankruptcy, lechery, and money laundering can exploit those susceptibilities very effectively. www.patreon.com/posts/151749...

This *year* the world will heat four times faster than in the entire century between 1750 and 1850. By 2030, it could be at 5X. The extreme fires, floods, “snownadoes“ and “firenadoes“ draw our attention, but yo ain’t seen nuttin yet. cooldesign.substack.com/p/my-not-ver... @herbsimmens.bsky.social

This week the Zuck took the stand to defend the way Metagoogleverse cleverly mints centabillionaires by monetizing Gen Z suicides. His defense? Tobaccospeak. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/canc... Like and subscribe.

Widespread disinformation on social media and the distrust of more reputable sources share common roots with the cancel culture of the 1980s and 90s. Perhaps there is something we can learn from that comparison. cooldesign.medium.com/canceling-th...