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  FYI: The fiction section of our monthly issues ("The Rotting Leaf") is currently open to submissions https://www.briefecology.com/submissions

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  Every month Brief Ecology publishes a new, themed book featuring ecological articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and fiction. For a more ecological society.

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  Brief Ecology is entirely reader-funded. We don't have any outside investors or funders, which makes us completely independent. Support our work by picking up one of our monthly issues: https://www.briefecology.com/store

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  In "We didn't start the fire.", Jacqueline St.Pierre shows the human cost of wildfire. From our latest issue, and originally published in @ReckoningMag@climatejustice.social https://www.briefecology.com/the-fires-that-haunt-us-brief-ecology-33/we-didnt-start-the-fire #wildFire #ecology #forest

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  "Everett leaving in pieces again: a bridge fastener, a surgical clamp, a municipal bus carrying strangers who never knew his wrist ached before rain." - Michael Bailey in Reclamation, from Brief Ecology No. 32 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/reclamation #ecology #ecofiction #solarPunk #shortStory #writing

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  Our October issue is available now! The Fires That Haunt Us features articles from Jacqueline St.Pierre and Nicole Lambrou, an interview with wildfire geographer Zeke Lunder, and original fiction and poetry from James Parenti and Roblin Meeks https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/the-fires-that-haunt-us-brief-ecology-33

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  We are very excited to announce that Brief Ecology is now available on @WeightlessBooks! Get our issues sent straight to your e-reader, individually or with an annual subscription: https://weightlessbooks.com/brief-ecology-magazine-12-month-subscription/

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  Being 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.

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@briefecology/117495807003430418 Have you read our latest issue? Get the ebook directly in the link below or from @WeightlessBooks

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  The reason for creating Brief Ecology stems from the realization that virtually none of the ecological knowledge we’ve created through research and experience is actually used for society’s benefit. Our goal is to explore why that is, and to also collect the major strains of that knowledge in a cohesive, applicable way.

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  Brief Ecology is hosting a new course by our editor, @benlockwood@ecoevo.social A guided reading of Murray Bookchin's Philosophy of Social Ecology Starting in November, the course will meet weekly for five weeks to discuss each chapter, along with optional supplemental readings. More info and registration here 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/guided-reading-course-registration #Ecology #SocialEcology #Anarchism #SolarPunk

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  Can human waste be sustainable? Dr. Jason Graham-Nye thinks so. In our latest issue, he discusses his recent research on compostable diapers 🌎 💩 https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/what-it-takes-to-give-diapers-a-life-after-waste #Sustainability #Compost #Ecology #SolarPunk

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  In our latest eco review, our editor reviews Joe Koch's recent short story, "Take Him", published in Gavagai: https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/eco-review-space-time-nature-gender-dialectics-or-new-from-the-old-in-joe-kochs-take-him #ecofiction #shortStory #writing

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  It’s Anti-Prime Day today. Bookshop has a site-wide sale and every purchase there supports local bookstores. Oh, and maybe check out Brief Ecology too–our monthly issues are very good and none of them are on Amazon.

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  Michael Niziolek is a former biology teacher and conservationist who, for the last several decades, has been working to restore 150 acres of wetland in Minnesota. In our latest issue he gave us an interview about his work 🌎 https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/notes-from-a-radical-ecologist-an-interview-with-conservationist-michael-niziolek #Conservation #Ecology #Biodiversity #SolarPunk #Nature #Interview

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  The Rotting Leaf is open to submissions! Send us your laments on the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid streams of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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  In Beyond Clean-Ups, Professor Ria Dunkley discusses her recent research into "wasted-edgelands" as opportunities for ecopedagogy 🌎 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/beyond-clean-ups-joy-discomfort-and-ecopedagogy-in-wasted-edgelands #Ecology #Pedagogy #Biodiversity #SolarPunk #Teaching

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  COVER REVEAL Our September issue is coming soon

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  Generative AI is demolishing what little trust remains in online media. It’s getting harder to know what is made by actual, real people. Brief Ecology has a relentless commitment to the human. We don’t use generative AI for *anything*. Human writing for human reading.

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  Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives. Pick up a copy here 🌎 🚮 ♻️ 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32 #Ecology #Sustainability #SolarPunk #Biodiversity #Conservation #Fiction #Poetry

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/117010558642656575 We thank @PaulaToThePeople for the work of maintaining ClimateJustice.Social

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  More scientific research is published now than at any previous point in history, and yet the majority of it never makes its way to the general public. This is only getting worse now that the billionaires have completely taken over legacy media. Brief Ecology is an attempt to improve this situation, by focusing on recent environmental research and its broader societal significance.

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  We all know the problems. Fossil fuel emissions are rapidly driving the global climate past functional thresholds. Habitat loss and degradation are dragging global biodiversity down to critical levels. And capitalism is accelerating both processes while exploiting the mass of humanity. The question is what can we do about it? That’s what Brief Ecology is all about.

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  Our August story in The Rotting Leaf is now live! "No one will help Carcass. No one will come save her. She yearns to swaddle herself in her decomposing intestines, protection against the world, against Vulture, yet she can’t move." - Alexia Tiches, "Carry On, Carrion" https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf/carry-on-carrion

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  In our latest issue, ecologists Marcos Moleón and Eneko Arrondo discuss the role of carrion in ecosystem dynamics and argue for a new Carrion Ecology https://www.briefecology.com/the-eco-update-31/carrion-changes-the-way-we-understand-nature #Ecology #Biodiversity #Carrion

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  Our August issue is live! Ecologies of Decay explores the role of death and decay in ecology 🌎 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/ecologies-of-decay

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  COVER REVEAL Issue 31 of The Eco Update, Ecologies of Decay, is coming soon

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  Did you know that we have a growing catalog of back issues, books, and even some merch? Your support helps us keep the lights on, pay contributing writers, and spread the knowledge of how to make society more ecological. https://www.briefecology.com/store #Ecology #Biodiversity #SolarPunkSunday #EcoSocialism #SocialEcology

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  Being 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.

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  In our Notes From A Radical Ecologist column, Ariane Solwell writes about the work of Degrowth California and how the group is pushing for an actually sustainable economy 🌎 https://www.briefecology.com/the-eco-update-30/degrowth-california-notes-from-a-radical-ecologist #ecology #degrowth #sustainability #SolarPunk #ecosocialism