Food Systems and the Coming Climacteric
Reimagining Food, Land, and the Future
Food for a Sustainable Future
This Substack explores how human activity is driving Earth's sixth mass extinction and the roles we can take directly as individuals and communities to help co-create a more life-affirming future.
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Cultivating Biosphere Consciousness: Turning Grief into Action
For years I have written about planetary boundaries, biodiversity loss, and the environmental consequences of food production.
Biogeochemical Breakdown: Food Systems, Dead Zones, and the Lessons of Mass Extinction
The modern food system is one of the least circular large-scale systems humans have ever created.
Who Controls Our Food?
Market Power, Prices, and the Planet
Cheap Food, Expensive Consequences
The Hidden Costs of What We Eat
Food For a Sustainable Future
February 2026 Monthly Newsletter
Food and Biosphere Integrity
How Food Systems Are Driving, and Can Solve, Biodiversity Collapse
The System Feeding Us Is Failing — Now What?
This article is the first of a series that explores the systems behind our food.
Food for a Sustainable Future
January 2026 Monthly Newsletter
How Food Was Kept at the Margins of COP Climate Talks
For most of the history of the UN climate negotiations, food systems were treated as peripheral, if considered at all.