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Everyday Ecologies
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Everyday environmentalism, urban gardening, growing, waste sorting, litter picking, recycling, reuse, DIY, deindustrialisation, post-industrial cities, working-class environmentalism
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🌱 "Permaculture is revolution disguised as gardening." —Mike Feingold
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
Boost your veggies! 🌿 Lime (calcium carbonate) raises soil pH, which helps nutrient absorption and combats blossom end rot in tomatoes/peppers. Use sparingly, test soil first! Great for leafy greens too. #GardeningTips #SoilHealth #LimeBenefits
Lime dusted over a raised vegetable bed
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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From the Archive: Robert Biel, 'Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing' - outlines a future where society re-energizes itself by recapturing creative dynamism and applying creativity to meeting physical energy needs. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing - Robert Biel, 2014
This article outlines a future where society re-energizes itself, in the sense both of recapturing creative dynamism and of applying creativity to meeting physi...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We now invite scholars to apply for either a complete Special Issue or a shorter Special Section to be published in Global Environmental Politics in 2027. Proposals due by November 1, 2025. Please repost & share!
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October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
everydayecologies.bsky.social
The Ecology of Everyday Things pulls back the veil of our familiarity on a range of ‘everyday things’ that surround us, and which we perhaps take too much for granted 👉🏽 www.routledge.com/The-Ecology-...
The Ecology of Everyday Things
Nature is all around us, in the beautiful but also in the unappealing and functional, and from the awe-inspiring to the mundane. It is vital that we learn to see the agency of the natural world in all...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
New article!

Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden by @janpollex.bsky.social & Lars E. Berker.

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ABSTRACT Amid escalating ecological crises and the limited effects of previous green growth approaches, degrowth has gained increasing attention, with researchers and activists debating various policies. However, implementation of such policies remains rare, as does research on these few examples. This highlights the need to examine the politics underlying such attempts to promote degrowth. This article explores national repair policies in Austria and Sweden as most likely cases of existing degrowth policies. It makes two key contributions. First, it applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework, using a classic policy analysis perspective to study degrowth policies. Second, it provides one of the first analyses of political dynamics in this context, identifying pragmatic degrowth coalitions that leverage diverse interpretations of repair policies to enable their implementation. This study discusses how incremental policy changes, driven by coalition-building efforts, can advance transformative policies, offering insights into the political processes required for implementing degrowth-oriented approaches.
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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In Climate Hegemony, @laurieparsons.bsky.social brings us a human’s-eye view of the climate crisis, drawing on two decades’ research at the frontline of global development in Cambodia.

📚 Publishing via #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

Find out more: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
October 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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New article!

Acts of energy citizenship in community solar gardens by Judita Hudson, @kurtiveson.bsky.social & Sophie Webber.

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ABSTRACT Characterised as sites of energy citizenship, community energy projects help people locked out of the corporate green energy and rooftop solar markets to participate in the renewable energy transition. However, the environmental politics of community energy projects cannot be assumed. Drawing from document analysis and semi-structured interviews with community energy organisers, advocates and participants, we compare two projects in New South Wales, Australia. We show that community energy projects accommodate different forms of energy citizenship, with implications for their ability to address existing exclusions and injustices of a market-led energy transition. We demonstrate that community energy projects have struggled to enhance low-income households’ access to renewable energy while simultaneously facilitating democratic participation in energy governance. In identifying the challenges that these projects have faced, we contribute to debates about how community energy projects can realise a just transition to renewable energy.
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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🌹🌿 New weekend blog on growing roses in a countryside garden as a way of observing climate shifts. Through writing about roses, I reflect on the interrelations between gardening, inequality, poetic imagination, local seasonal weather and global climate change 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/10/04/t...
Through growing roses, and what I found there (spoiler: climate change)
I delayed writing on the topic of gardening and growing roses so many times. It seemed to me that writing about these small everyday issues in a time of polycrisis was an unaffo…
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October 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
October is perfect for planting broad beans (fava beans) for an early crop next spring! 🍂
Top tips:
1️⃣ Choose a hardy, overwintering variety like 'Aquadulce Claudia'.
2️⃣ Plant seeds 5cm deep in a sunny, well-drained spot to protect them from frost and mice.
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #BroadBeans
October 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
everydayecologies.bsky.social
What can be done when vast corporations take control of the land, poison the soil, and exploit the hands that care for it? Valentina Donato explores the various forms of resistance to the Colombian cut-flower industry radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/colombias-fl...
Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance
Valentina Donato This article was originally published by degrowth.info on 15 August 2025. What can be done when vast corporations take control of the land, poison the soil, and exploit the hands t…
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September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
Sow kohlrabi seeds in early August for a tasty fall harvest by October! Both the leaves and the bulbous stems are edible—try them raw in salads, roasted with herbs, or stewed into cozy dishes. A cool-season veggie that thrives as summer fades. 🌱🥗🔥 #gardening #fallharvest #kohlrabi
August 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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2/2 Extreme heat has become a regular feature of life across the world, but the way it is felt depends on who you are and where you live; with working class people being hit the hardest and taking the longest to recover from its impacts - and that's even if they can recover at all.
August 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
Potatoes should be growing well now—time to earth them up! Mound soil around stems to protect tubers from light & boost yield. Tip: water well, especially once flowers appear—this means tubers are forming & harvest is just weeks away! Keep earthing up as needed to cover new growth. #gardenplanner
May 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - Building a Year of Trade Union Climate Action
⏰️ Online meeting Wed 7th May 7pm 
✍️ Register actionnetwork.org/events/the-c...
Join the discussion on how we can build for a year of action, as agreed at TUC 2024 - in our unions, workplaces and communities ✊
April 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
🌱 New blog post! Discover the magic of Square Foot Gardening & maximize your harvest. Read more here: [https://vegplotter.com/blog](vegplotter.com/blog) #SquareFootGardening #GardeningTips #VegPlotter
April 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Mitul Baruah discusses nature and power, environmental disaster in India and the importance of the work of political ecologists outside academia.

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Political Ecology: Reflections from the Global South - Prof Mitul Baruah
Political ecology as an area of academic enquiry is relatively new. The history of it in the Anglophone world can be traced back to the 1980s, pioneered by, ...
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March 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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The arrival of spring is lifting my spirits
Blossom emerging on a cherry tree, daffodils and primroses in an English garden
March 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Keep your veggies snug, your potatoes safe, and your brassicas standing tall! 🌱 Check out our latest blog on the benefits of earthing up—your garden will thank you! 🏡🌿 Read more here: vegplotter.com/blog/the-art... #gardeningtips #earthingup #growyourown
March 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Keston Perry discusses climate injustice, the work of #SylviaWynter and the links between colonialism and the environment.

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Political economy and the environment - Dr Keston Perry
Debates in political economy have shifted from resource extraction as a means of accumulation under capitalism to consider how workers, indigenous peoples, B...
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March 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Rose Shrubs have arrived from Texas.
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Germination is wrapping up decently. A few species didn't do great - Rudbeckia Hirta, Amsonia tabernaemontana, Eutrochium purpureum, and Asclepias speciosa (Germination went well but cold damaged after). Everything else seems to be doing well.
March 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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vegplotter.bsky.social
Cabbage butterfly caterpillars can quickly damage brassicas. Keep them away by planting strong-scented herbs like chamomile, mint, rosemary, sage, and thyme—these smells deter them. You can also shield your crops with muslin or horticultural fleece for extra protection. #GardeningTips #PestControl
March 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Want to maximize your growing time? Sow early carrots as soon as VegPlotter’s app advises for your area. Plant in well-drained soil & cover with fleece for warmth. Pick fast-growers like ‘Napoli’ for a quicker crop. Top tip: Mix seeds with sand for even spacing—less thinning needed! #SpringPlanting
February 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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If civilization collapses, what's left of nature doesn't stand a chance.

When you're on a plane & the oxygen masks fall down, you put YOUR mask on FIRST, so that you can save others!!

It's the ANTHROPOCENE!!
Nearly EVERY ANIMAL ON EARTH NEEDS HUMANITY TO BE #SUSTAINABLE so that THEY CAN SURVIVE!!
February 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM