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Recommended by Rob Lewis

Exploring how language shapes what we believe about the natural world, and each other.

Inspired by Nature, Driven by Data Project of Earth Island Institute Dedicated to Protecting Our🌲National Forests🌲

These folks are doing stellar work fighting for the biotic integrity of our forests. In depth research and passionate commitment to forests come together in this hugely important organization.

- Rob Lewis

Biotic Regulation and Biotic Pump

By Anastassia Makarieva

How natural ecosystems keep our planet habitable

Fearless Green

By Owl Green

Owl in America || Notes from an American Environmentalist: chronicling the Trump years from an environmental lawyer’s perspective

Lovely, fearless writing about the beautiful, intrepid Earth.

- Rob Lewis

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Good writing and good reading are fundamental to creating a better understanding of the world.

- Rob Lewis

Collective Effervescence: A Back-to-the-Land Ethnography

By Lisa Gruwell Spicer

Shows how a community went from division to cohesion by finding common ground. Based on the study of back-to-the-lander newcomers and old-timers in a rural California community during the 1970s.

Handwritten letters

By Jakob Shockey

in search of truth, community and grace.

Katie Singer's Substack

In our increasingly technocratic society, on a limited income, how/can I live within my ecological means and enjoy peace between my ears?

Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability

By Gunnar Rundgren

A blog about the future of the planet. Ecology, Environment, Development and Economy are put together and looked at critically.

Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From

By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Plant advocacy through writing, photography & podcasting

Homecoming

By Julie Gabrielli

NatureStack journal, Building Hope essays, climate fiction, and my singing dog.

The Fox Holler Almanac

By Benjamin Bramble

A record of the agrarian year, concerning rural folklore, redneck ecology, and the work of liberating and sustaining life through food and farming. You are intrigued.

The Wisdom Underground

By Didi Pershouse

To reveal what's unseen and unheard, uplift what is undervalued, and evoke metanoia as we move through the world(s) .

Living Earth

By Ugo Bardi

Earth is alive. The many facets of a changing system

A Beautiful Resistance

By Rhyd Wildermuth

Ritona and Gods&Radicals Press

Regenesis

By Ali

Welcome to Regenesis: – my personal playground for exploring, testing, and quantifying natural rhythms to design climate repair solutions. As a system architect, I integrate insights across disciplines to craft regenerative strategies that work.

Citizen science with heart

- Rob Lewis

Traps, cages and spells

By Nicholas.Wilkinson

Searching for the saola. Wondering what I'm doing wrong.

You'll not read environmental writing this honest and pared to the bone as this. There is something necessary in this man's story.

- Rob Lewis

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Biocentric with Max Wilbert

Weekly updates on energy, sustainability, and frontline struggles for environmental justice in a world spiraling deeper into ecological crisis.

Climate Water Project

By Alpha Lo

How to restore the water cycle, and how that helps with hydrating the earth and soil, replenishing groundwater, restore rains in drought areas, lessen flooding, and slow down climate change.

Writing Home

By Dougald Hine

A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.

Field Guide to the Anthropocene

By Jason Anthony

A weekly essay/newsletter on the transformed Earth - as it is, as it was, and as it might be - that promises thoughtful, well-researched writing and a dose of pessimistic optimism.

Hart’s Blog

By Hart's Blog

Climate & Environment. Water & Wildlife. Ecological Farming, Forestry & Landscaping.

Planet: Critical

By Rachel Donald

Investigating why the world is in crisis.

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

RadFemBiophilia’s Newsletter

By Elisabeth Robson

A newsletter about loving the natural world. More stories on Medium: https://medium.com/@elisabethrobson

Caitlin’s Newsletter

By Caitlin Johnstone

Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.

The Raven

By Patrick Mazza

Building the Future in Place

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.