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Ecologies of Decay | The Eco Update 31 (PDF)
Ecologies of Decay | The Eco Update 31 (PDF)
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What’s In This Issue

  • Ecologies of Decay | Ben Lockwood

  • Carrion Changes the Way We Understand Nature | Marcos Moleón & Eneko Arrondo

  • Nature Photo of the Month | Laura Barbato

  • Eco Review | Suicide Valley: Trail Maintenance

  • The Rotting Leaf | Alexia Tiches

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July 2026
July 2026

What’s In This Issue

  • The Ecological Road | Ben Lockwood

  • Roadside Verges | Chris Wyver

  • Workers and the World | Lorenzo Feltrin

  • Nature Photo of the Month | Emanuel Haas

  • Notes From A Radical Ecologist | Ariane Solwell

  • Eco Review | Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology

  • The Rotting Leaf | Jared Oliver Adams

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June 2026
June 2026

What’s In This Issue

  • From the Editor: Planetary Possibilities | Ben Lockwood

  • Decarbonization Is a Coordination Problem — and Private Markets Can’t Solve It | Melanie Brusseler

  • The Global Justice Platform: A Deal Capitalism Should Take | Ben Lockwood

  • Nature Photo of the Month | Jimmy Giannini

  • Eco Fiction Review: History of the New World | Review by Ben Lockwood

  • The Once-Green Forest of My Lungs | Lynn Sargent

  • Lynn Sargent on Ecofiction | The Rotting Leaf

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May 2026
May 2026

What’s In This Issue

  • Letter From The Editor | Ben Lockwood

  • The Energy-Agriculture-Biodiversity Nexus | Adam Gallaher

  • Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class | Ben Lockwood

  • Nature Photo of the Month | Natalia Danjon

  • In Defense of Action | Parker Clay

  • Ecofiction Review: Boreal | Ben Lockwood

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April 2026
April 2026

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

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Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction
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Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction
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The Hut Upon the Sands
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The Hut Upon the Sands
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Lynn Sargent on Ecofiction
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The Once-Green Forest of My Lungs
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