New essay 'Paul and George, in the Machine' chrissmaje.com/2026/01/paul...

New essay 'Year's end', wrapping up this year's blogging chrissmaje.com/2025/12/year...

My essay ‘The challenge of food ecomodernism’ discusses the oddities of @georgemonbiot.bsky.social‘s dip into Bezos-funded verification of soil carbon markets & the difficulties of getting a hearing for agroecology & localism in a ‘green’-tech obsessed media www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Our team curated a stimulating and eclectic collection of memoirs, investigations, scientific works, cookbooks, and much more for this year’s holiday book guide. 📚⬇️

Good to see this paper getting Seralinied, though it scarcely compensates for all the disinformation over the years www.science.org/content/arti...

New essay 'Siren song: digging into the lure of food ecomodernism': chrissmaje.com/2025/12/sire... in which I try to make sense of @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's latest intervention in food system politics (Tom Murphy is up next!)

A pleasure to talk with Rachel Donald again on Planet Critical about hyper-local futures and my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' www.planetcritical.com/hyper-local-...

Podcast with ffinlo Costain on FarmGate about my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' just out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Listen to @chrissmaje.bsky.social talk about his new book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age, on the Doomer Optimism podcast #BookSky #Nonfiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5U...

New essay coinciding with the US publication of my book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' today chrissmaje.com/2025/11/pira... #PirateModernism #RIPDesHarris

Nice review of my book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' by Hadden Turner at Front Porch Republic

New essay 'Words and worship' chrissmaje.com/2025/10/word...

Happy Publication Day! Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧 #Nonfiction

My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world. Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding... Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...

Thoroughly enjoyed "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by @chrissmaje.bsky.social, which for unknown reasons arrived with me before the official launch date. I might try to write a longer review at some point, but not tonight.

New essay 'My constituents are ... leaving town' chrissmaje.com/2025/10/my-c... Agrarianism, urbanism, religion, nationalism & the problems with parliamentary politics all in one post!

Enjoying "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by that @chrissmaje.bsky.social which arrived a good week before the official publication date, but I need to stop reading now and go to the allotment... You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...

David Bollier's blog post about the podcast I did with him is here: www.bollier.org/blog/chris-s...

Here's a pod I did with commoning expert @davidbollier.bsky.social, just out. It was a pleasure speaking with him david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/chr...

New essay 'In common' chrissmaje.com/2025/09/in-c...

My essay 'Open country: romanticism, modernism & the meta-crisis' is at #Romanticon substack.com/home/post/p-...

I enjoyed talking with Lucy Ridge about my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' on Agroecology Radio Hour agroecologyradiohour.buzzsprout.com/2402605/epis... #DarkAgeLight

New essay 'Aiee, AI! Or, feeling the story' chrissmaje.com/2025/09/aiee... A tangled tale of artificial intelligence, global crisis & what keeps an author awake at night

Just finished recording the audiobook of my 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' at the excellent Bert Jansch studio in Frome

New essay, 'From Glastonbury to Gaza: no direction home' chrissmaje.com/2025/08/from...

Thank you, and nicely put

New essay 'From Frome to Glastonbury', telling tales of my walk to the Glastonbury Festival, of cities, singers and how we seek home

New essay 'Livestock & climate change further explained', building on my previous essay in response to some queries about it chrissmaje.com/2025/07/live...

New essay 'Go solar, go vegan & still collapse: beyond the global environmental problems framework' chrissmaje.com/2025/07/go-s... discussing new data on fossil fuel emissions, strange data on livestock agriculture emissions and the need for localism

New essay O! Enkidu! chrissmaje.com/2025/07/o-en... with news of Gilgamesh, authoritarian states & my friend Eric Farnsworth's new book

I should have mentioned in my previous post that the Barnes & Noble preorder offer for my book applies in the US only. Today is the last day of the offer!

You can now preorder my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' from Barnes & Noble. Rewards members (it's free to sign up online) get 25% discount, premium members get a further 10% off: barnesandnoble.com/w/finding-li... Use PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder #BookSky @barnesandnoble.com

I enjoyed speaking with Robert on this podcast, now available: open.spotify.com/episode/5Dzh...

Looking forward to talking about #DarkAgeLight & #FoodSecurity @ #GlastonburySpeakersForum #Glastonbury2025. The last chapter of my forthcoming book involves a fictional walk to Glastonbury, so I decided to walk there for real😀 Maybe I'll post as I go!

New essay 'A clown & two romances' chrissmaje.com/2025/06/a-cl... with news of global war, clowns, sheep, mountains & my impending talks at #GlastonburyFestival

New essay 'Root and branch' chrissmaje.com/2025/06/root...

New post 'Looking forward...' with a bit more news about my new book, my blog, recently deceased philosophers and other such matters chrissmaje.com/2025/05/look... #DarkAgeLight

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre. A big influence on me among many. www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...

I'm excited to say my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work & Craft' will be published in the UK on 14 Oct & in the US on Nov 11 Preorder links here: rizzoliusa.com/buy-online/9... #DarkAgeLight

New essay "Finding Lights in a Dark Age – or, writing ἀποκάλυψις" chrissmaje.com/2025/05/find... #DarkAgeLight

I'm looking forward to this We Feed the UK event in Bristol on Saturday, where among other things I'll be in conversation about agrarian localism with Helen Keys wefeedtheuk.org/event/open-h...

A pleasure as always to chat with Ashley & Jason on the #DoomerOptimism podcast, this time about N.S. Lyons & his 'strong gods' essay www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYlF...

New essay 'Energy transition: the end of an idea' chrissmaje.com/2025/04/ener... looking at Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's recent book & his challenge to the notion of a clean energy transition

New essay 'No more heroes: or, seeking strong gods' chrissmaje.com/2025/04/no-m... A populist critique of false populisms & other contemporary maladies...

New essay 'Overshoot, meet undershoot' chrissmaje.com/2025/03/over...

A (brief) new post with some questions after a long book-writing lay off. More soon chrissmaje.com/2025/03/some...

New study states over-inflated sustainability claims of cultured meat - including its energy use. Same applies to microbial alt-meat protein, as I've shown & has now been independently confirmed. Luckily, there are still beans & they will forgive our hubris. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New essay 'To the lifehouse, Part 2' following up on some interesting reader comments to my previous essay chrissmaje.com/2025/02/to-t...

New paper with Solar Foods co-authors says electrical energy cost of microbial protein process is 69.3-73 MWh/t protein (or kWh/kg). This settles the energy cost issue. The 16.7 kWh/kg fig in @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's Regenesis is out by >x4. George please recant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New essay 'To the lifehouse' with news about my forthcoming book, big revelations about manufactured food, and a polite quarrel with Adam Greenfield chrissmaje.com/2025/02/to-t...