Ben Lockwood, PhD

Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of Brief Ecology | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere

Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball

Brief Ecology: https://www.briefecology.com

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Last Notes

2025-09-26 01:49:03 UTC

Imagine if we developed technology for the purpose of working less rather than squeezing more profits

2025-09-13 19:06:09 UTC

There’s enough bad news circulating to last a lifetime right now, but one small piece of Good News is that my upcoming book has a cover
https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/198/545/115/885/340/original/736e1b09e7a1b2fa.png

2025-09-05 21:55:10 UTC

All the cool kids are going floppy
https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/153/912/907/666/064/original/b9908a420b1a448e.jpg

2025-09-03 23:01:48 UTC

It’s too easy to fall into despair these days, but action is the cure. People all across the country (& world) are organizing, unionizing, disrupting, and building community. Join them.

2025-08-22 14:02:17 UTC

We’re facing ecological and climatological collapse on a planetary scale. The solution requires revolutionary cooperation the likes of which humanity has never attempted. Capitalism is wholly inadequate to this task.

2025-07-01 18:58:22 UTC

We can circle the barn all day voicing opinions on using AI for writing, but eventually you get to the heart of the matter, which is that you either enjoy thinking or you don’t.

2025-04-30 17:14:08 UTC

Murray Bookchin's theory of Democratic Municipalism is his vision for how society could develop ecologically. It's a democratically focused politics, practiced at the scale of the city.
https://open.substack.com/pub/benlockwood/p/ecologizing-society-democratic-municipalism?r=1x8f3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#ecology #philosophy #politics #urbanism #democracy

2025-04-15 23:05:30 UTC

There’s a lot of ways we could create, or transition to, an ecological society. We already have the knowledge of how to do this. I want to explore that a bit, and try to aggregate that knowledge into something cohesive. This project, Ecologizing Society, is an attempt to do that.
https://open.substack.com/pub/benlockwood/p/ecologizing-society-dialectical-nature?r=1x8f3o&utm_medium=ios
#ecology #philosophy #politics #socialecology #biodiversity

2025-03-10 14:32:51 UTC

More of this:
"In the UK, the cities of Edinburgh and Sheffield have introduced such bans, with billboard ads for fossil fuel companies like Shell and BP, as well as airlines, airports, SUVs, and petrol- or diesel-powered vehicles disappearing from council-owned sites as the policies take hold."
https://theconversation.com/many-cities-are-banning-ads-for-airlines-suvs-and-fossil-fuels-and-yours-could-be-next-251322
#ClimateChange #capitalism #fossilfuels

2025-02-23 23:25:41 UTC

Rain on oak sapling (June 2024)
📷:
- 24mm
- 1/60 sec
- f/2.8
- ISO 200
#SilentSunday #forest #nature #trees #ecology #photography
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2025-02-06 02:41:15 UTC

I’m reading Massey’s “for space”, which is full of absolute bangers–which I can’t comprehend–like this one:
“To shift the imagination from a mission to disrupt the supposed integrity of spatial structures toward an ever-moving generative spatio-temporal choreography is peculiarly difficult where the very notion of the dislocation of structures has so frequently been itself translated as the dislocation of space by time.”
#geography #theory #philosophy

2024-12-12 02:42:26 UTC

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circling back to this kind of late, but would this be feasible on a raspberry pi? I have an older one I’m not doing anything with atm

2024-10-14 01:13:18 UTC

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Killer mountain vista #Monsterdon

2024-09-01 01:40:15 UTC

I will resist the urge to watch this week’s #Monsterdon film early, and will instead watch Far From the Apple Tree
#horror #horrorfilms
https://tubitv.com/movies/635912/far-from-the-apple-tree