If this really is happening, the consequences could be worse than we thought. www.iflscience.com/amocs-fragil...

A fantastic conversation about centering the economy around biodiversity. Assigning more value to an ecosystem than the sum of its parts. Thanks, @natehagens.bsky.social for hosting ecologist, Thomas Crowther 🙏🤝 #biodiversity #economy #value #systems #stewardship #nature youtu.be/LmIzU18Wh5k

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-...

Set fire to Jewish ambulances - non-stop media coverage. Set fire to the prime minister's homes - media silence. This is a bit weird, isn't it?

Western officials are like "Violence has no place in our society [bombs a school]. We've all got our differences and disagreements [sponsors a genocide], but it's important for us to find a way to make peace [starves a civilian population with siege warfare]."

Characteristically helpful summary of the rail electrification topic from @hannahritchie.bsky.social. More detail from me soonish I hope on the troubling implications of the contemporary oil crisis for Britain’s un-electrified railways - and the more positive ones for our rail electrification agenda

The technical cycle in a nature-based economy has one job: Support the biological cycle. Process biological materials. Provide tools. Run on renewables. It does NOT extract from the lithosphere just to dump into the biosphere. www.patreon.com/posts/green-...

Firms know that the circular economy will come. What they might not know is that their book keeping and accounts can be adapted to give them a picture of how circular they are now and their potential. www.patreon.com/posts/naviga...

Water purification. Nutrient cycling. Carbon storage. Nature does this for free. The current economy replaces them with chemicals, energy, and infrastructure. A nature-based economy lets the biological cycle do its job. Not romantic. Efficient. www.patreon.com/posts/green-...

As Earth Day arrives, legislation has been introduced in Congress that would outrageously grant legal immunity from climate change damages to fossil fuel companies. This would shield them from lawsuits brought by communities harmed by climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

Of course personal mobility is part of the circular economy. Circular is from to and back again. So mobiltiy is leave home go somewhere and go back!

Detta är kursen för dig som vill omvandla oro till aktion. farnebo.se/kurser/hallb...

Sweden requires farms to keep producing during a crisis. But economic pressure means most farms cannot afford: Solar for when the grid fails Animals to replace tractors Nutrient recycling for when fertilisers run out We should design an economy for resilience. www.patreon.com/posts/farms-...

Economics treats farms like factories. If demand falls, cut production. If costs rise, move elsewhere. But you can't move soil. You can't relocate a microclimate. You can't offshore topsoil. Farms are not replaceable. They are critical. Economic models are wrong open.substack.com/pub/stephenh...

Sweden requires farms to keep producing even during a crisis. But most farms cannot afford: Solar for when the grid fails Animals to replace tractors Nutrient recycling for when fertilisers run out We demand resilience. Then we design an economy that prevents it. www.patreon.com/posts/farms-...

BREAKING: An Israel-backed terror group called "the United States of America" has blown up a bridge in Iran

The green transition isn't a money problem. It's a real resources problem. Labour to build. Materials to mine and manufacture. Energy to power it all. Ecological limits to respect. #MMT opens the fiscal door. Now we need a systematic framework for walking through the resource door. Read why ↓

Vi behöver inte de rika, staten behöver inte låna och vi behöver inte neddragningar. Kom till Moderna Museet den 27 juni. events.humanitix.com/anti-austeri...

Make hope normal again. 👏

There is a moment in every financial crisis when the invisible hand of the market seizes up, and the very visible hand of the state must take over. mmtmichael.substack.com/p/the-visibl... #MMT

Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar.

If you’re a scientist, you know the drill. You spend years on rigorous research, arrive at a critical finding about a looming environmental or public health crisis, and publish a paper. The conclusion reads something like: “These findings point to the urgent need for integrated policy responses.”>

Thread Economists act as gatekeepers in policy-making, filtering (and often distorting) science-based recommendations. To ensure critical ecological and social insights reach decision-makers, scientists and consultants must develop direct communication strategies to circumvent economic gatekeeping.

The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual

Absolute banger of a thread from WCC about Westminster’s side zebras. From some stunning results on their effectiveness, to the story of why @maxsullivan.bsky.social got thinking about them. What a trailblazer this man is, installing side zebras that are “not permitted” by the DfT! ⬇️

Pensionssystemet bygger på myten om sparande. I en ekonomi med fiatvaluta kan staten finansiera pensioner direkt, stärka köpkraften och minska krisrisken. Trygga pensioner kräver stark realekonomi – inte börsberoende. #pensioner #MMT #välfärd #ekonomi www.oskarbrandt.com/2024/11/18/s...

Really seems not great when the Israeli government is just taking one of the most famous antisemitic propaganda images in the book, making it about Muslims, and redeploying it.

In Ecuador, nature has legal rights, but detailed scientific evidence is needed to defend them. The Ecoforensic program is training community scientists and winning cases.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science insideclimatenews.org/news/2203202...

#MMT I'm not proposing a better production function. I propose macro isn't the deepest layer of analysis. Macro manages flows. Asset stewardship manages stocks. No stocks? Then no flows. The layers: Asset integrity Provisioning capacity Flows (GDP) www.patreon.com/posts/should...

The RCF provides the evidence-based backbone for the advocacy and activism called for by scientists. It turns analysis into ammunition." If you're an academic tired of the void, let's operationalize advocacy together. Read the concept note here: www.patreon.com/posts/how-yo...

In 2014, the Bank of England dropped a bombshell: they admitted the "textbook" model of money is fiction. Banks don't lend out savings. They create money from nothing. A decade later, your textbooks still haven't been updated. Here’s why that matters for the economy www.patreon.com/posts/deep-r...

RBA Boss says they are trying to "bring the excess demand down" - which excess demand? Unemployment is already rising and consumer spending is weak. The current inflation is supply-driven. The RBA is repeating mistakes it made in 2022 when supply fell. Now they are hiking because ships cannot sail.

Somehow the Reserve Bank thinks ships will sail through the Strait of Hormuz more quickly if they hike Australian interest rates. All they are doing is adding to the pain for low income earners of the higher petrol prices and ensuring unemployment rises (more paid). Their decision defies reason.

Yes, see e.g. this study led by George Tselioudis (coauthor of a.o. the recent two Hansen et al. papers). If climate sensitivity is higher, that should result in (relatively) more warming from both increasing greenhouse gases and decreasing aerosols. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Britain's water companies paid out billions in dividends while the pipes rotted. Now we're told we can't afford to fix them. The engineers exist. The materials exist. The need is real. What's missing isn't money. Britain isn't broke. It's blocked.

[email protected] writes 1000 words on Green economics without once acknowledging that the UK government issues its own currency. Every claim rests on the "household budget" myth. They couldn't get it more wrong if they tried. #MMT archive.is/RdqQb

Stock market crashes don't destroy money, and here is why youtu.be/wzQGAX5FDFI?...

The government borrowing myth #MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

The MMT Digest — 09 March 2026 - Interest rate hikes will not get ships moving through the Strait of Ho - Interest rates can’t fix inflation now - A structured approach for progressive political ambitions – Part 2 #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory

Know the Truth and it shall Set You Free #learnMMT

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

War criminals. Ditch all cooperation with US

As a local politician, can I use some ideas of Dave Snowden (Esturine mapping, Substrate) to understand how my municipality works - and how we can intervene to promote the green transition? open.substack.com/pub/stephenh...

What’s the value of a functioning ecosystem — in policymaking terms? 🌱 The Real Capital Framework shows scientists how to link their findings to real-world decisions. This online tool takes you through the steps. www.patreon.com/posts/online...

Can a Real Capital approach inform national budgets? A way to test the idea.....

As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.

Green is really a menace to society, greed is better?