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Our February 2026 issue of The Eco Update: Proletarian Ecology, Defining the “anthro” in Anthropocene, our nature photo of the month, Notes From a Radical Ecologist, and more.
What’s In This Issue
Letter from the Editor | Ben Lockwood
Urban Parks Are Refuges For Bees | Carlos Hernández-Castellano
Plastic, Soil, and Biodiversity | María Fernández-Maquieira
Nature Photo of the Month | Bernd Dittrich
Notes From A Radical Ecologist: A Letter to Brief Ecology | Guilherme E. Meyer
Eco Fiction Review: Concentric Macroscope | Ben Lockwood
More from Brief Ecology in April
In Ecologizing Society: Theory, Ben Lockwood writes that to resolve the perceived separation of nature and society requires examining the false binary from both directions. Ecologizing Society combines ecological, economic, philosophical, and political theories to draw out the underlying principals that could contribute to a more ecological society than the current one.
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