The Ecological Citizen
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The Ecological Citizen is an independent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access journal that provides a forum for inspiring and mobilizing discussion with an Earth-centred perspective. Visit us here: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/
🌍 Reminder: We're open to submissions for Issue 10—the first issue in a new chapter for the journal. Send us your most passionate #ecocentric articles, stories, poetry and art. www.ecologicalcitizen.net/submit/ #Nature #Earth #Earthcentred #DeepGreen #Ecofiction #Ecopoetry #EcoArt #Biodiversity
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🌍 We have a new website: ecologicalcitizen.net The journal has been redesigned and rebuilt from scratch with a new host and CMS by one editor (Taylor Hood), with all archive content fully migrated. Please bear with us as we settle into our new digital home!
NEW POST FROM EARTH TONGUES! 🔥 Endless wars blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/07/29/e... Developing her thoughts on #nihilism, Eileen Crist argues that by stripping the world of #sacredness, nihilism enables violence and the militaristic systems that drive the exploitation of people and #nature.
Endless wars
Nihilism is coeval with violence. Among many forms of violence, war has been nonstop since civilization’s ascent, when nihilism began its slow-motion advent toward consensus reality. In a profanate…
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🌱🌍 Defenders of #Earth, Vol 9 No 2 is live! #Cities #MunicipalLaw #RussiaUkraineWar #EnvironmentalCrisis #InclusiveDesign #Accessibility #EcologicalJustice #PresenceInTheBuiltEnvironment #UrbanEcocentrism #AINature #PaulEhrlich #LaLibreÉvolution Read here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
🫂 🌍 The Ecocentric Alliance (100+ members) hosts a Google Group dedicated to #ecocentric discussions. Explore their website for Earth-centred resources and to request an invitation via the webform: ecocentricalliance.wordpress.com EA's history with our journal: ecologicalcitizen.net/history.html
REMINDER! 📖 The Ecological Citizen is taking submissions for Vol 10 No 1 until 31st August. This issue will have an open theme, so please send us your best writing on the most vital challenges to achieving an #EcologicalCivilization. #Ecocentrism #Nature ecologicalcitizen.net/submissions....
🏞️ #RewildingSuccesses is a dedicated platform for rewilding champions to share how they're making the world a wilder place. Interested? Write for us: rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/submit-your-... #Rewilding #RewildingWonder #RewildingHope #GenerationRestoration #Ecocentrism
📢 The Ecological Citizen calls attention to 'Say It' (2025), a powerful #ecocentric jeremiad voiced by Jan Zwicky and Garth Martens. 🌲 To listen, scroll down to 'Readings and Conversations': deermountainpages.com#about
🐒 🌳 The #AmazonRainforest supports 16% of Earth’s #primate species, but roads are fragmenting their homes. Reconecta is building #CanopyBridges to stop roadkill & reunite isolated populations. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/05/12/r... #RewildingHope #HabitatFragmentation #Deforestation
Reconnecting Brazil’s rainforests [South America]
Fernanda Abra and Mayan Press Goldfreind write: “For passionate conservationists, it is very common to find our way deeper and deeper into the subject, sometimes from a very young age. With t…
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🌍 🎉 Today marks the journal's 10th birthday! Read about our history: ecologicalcitizen.net/history.html Watch our introductory video on the importance of #ecocentrism: youtu.be/gGLVfZSA74g?...
The Ecological Citizen: About the Journal
Information on The Ecological Citizen, which is an independent, free-to-access, peer-reviewed, ecocentric journal. Broadly speaking, the Journal covers ecocentrism and biocentrism, ecocentric and bioc...
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📉 🫂 Our friends at #Population Balance recently launched #ShrinkTowardAbundance. This story-driven initiative aims to show that living in a world of limits doesn't have to mean scarcity and hardship. 🌏 To read positive stories from across the globe visit: www.populationbalance.org/shrink-towar...
📗 In the latest contribution to #EarthTongues, Patrick Curry reviews Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (2025). Opposing the machine: A response to Paul Kingsnorth blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/04/23/o...
Opposing the machine: A response to Paul Kingsnorth
The world in which we all live is neither ‘spiritual’ nor ‘material’ but both, in ways that are liminal, messy, mysterious, relational, boundaried, enchanting, scary, serious, funny, sensuous, anar…
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🏙️ Vol 9-2 is live! The pieces published so far include writing on #war’s environmental impacts, hope and #ecocrisis, #urbanlaw, #AI and nature, #birdsafe design, remembrance of #Ehrlich, #multispeciesjustice, and anti-utopian #urbanism. Read it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
New from #EarthTongues 💀 The Metaphysics of Human Supremacy blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/03/30/t... In her latest post, Eileen argues that #nihilism and #humansupremacy work hand in hand to nullify and denigrate #Earth's sacredness.
The Metaphysics of Human Supremacy
In popular culture, nihilism is taken to mean the felt sense that things are futile and bound ineluctably toward dissolution. This is a reasonable description of the human experience of nihilism, b…
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🪸 🐠 🪼 New to #RewildingSuccesses, Expressions is a space for writers to explore what #rewilding means to them. Eileen has written the first piece, reflecting on #coralreefs: rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/03/02/r... "Coral reefs deserve the generosity and wisdom of No Take and No Entry."
Rewilding coral reefs
Eileen Crist writes: “Encountering a wild animal in its natural habitat is a great privilege as it brings us into contact with the quality of awareness the animal exudes. The etymology of ani…
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🐟 🏞️ In Skolt #Sámi #Finland, Sámi-led efforts are restoring the #Näätämö River, blending Indigenous #TraditionalKnowledge and science to rebuild salmon habitat. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2026/02/25/s... #SnowchangeCooperative @rewilding.org #Rewilding #Indigenous #RewildingHope
Sámi-led healing of a salmon river [Northern Europe]
Tero Mustonen writes: “Since its inclusion in the Convention on Biological Diversity (§8(j)), Traditional Knowledge has increasingly developed influence in its own right. This influence is ev…
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🐺 Feral Lines, a collection of four rewilding-themed tales, has been narrated for The Ecological Citizen’s YouTube channel. Watch here: youtu.be/QZWLnLtS_XE?... Read the stories: ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-15... #EcoFiction #RewildingStories #EcoLit
Feral Lines - Rewilding Fiction
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🌱 🌍 Defenders of the #Earth, Vol 9 No 1 is live! Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=... #ColonialPerception #JaneGoodall #Indigeneity #ConservationPolitics #PhenomenologyOfNature #IndigenousLandManagement #AnimalEthics #AnimalNarratives #LiminalEcology #EcoCulturalCriticism
🌍 We've launched the Global Map of Stories on our #RewildingSuccesses microsite! This interactive 3D model visualises a range of positive #rewilding stories from all corners of the #Earth. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/global-map-o... Contact us: rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/submit-your-...
🐄 For Crist, #FactoryFarming represents a moral collapse. She rejects the myth of an 'ancient contract' and calls for abolishing industrial #animal #agriculture in favour of a primordial covenant of care, freedom, and responsibility towards farm animals. blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/12/24/t...
📗 We've compiled an #ecocentric book list. Each category explores a different way of being and acting in the world. 🌍 This is a living selection of key works, not a definitive canon, and we may expand or refine it in future. www.ecologicalcitizen.net/ecocentric-b... #Nature #Books #Literature
🏙️ We're open to submissions for Vol 9 No 2. This will be a semi-themed issue concerning #Ecocentrism in the #BuiltEnvironment. 🌳 We are particularly keen to be sent pieces with practical messages offering a 'way forward'. Further information: www.ecologicalcitizen.net/submissions....
👣 First pieces from 9.1 — focusing on #indigeneity — are out. Exploring #badgers, #meat ethics, #raptors, the bonds between humans, nonhumans, & place, plus #conservation politics, these essays highlight #ecocentric ways of being. Incl. #JaneGoodall tribute. 🐾 ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
🦅 After decades of decline, Portugal’s cinereous #vultures are returning. Breeding pairs have more than doubled since 2022 thanks to the LIFE Aegypius Return project. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/10/07/r... @globalrewilding.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewilding.org #rewilding
Reviving Portugal’s vultures [Southern Europe]
Milene Matos writes: “The mighty cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a true giant of the skies. It is the largest Old World vulture and one of the heaviest birds of prey in the world, wi…
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🐒 Today, we mark the passing of #JaneGoodall — not just an eminent primatologist, but a voice for all life. As an early signatory to the Statement of Ecocentrism, she stood for nature’s intrinsic value, beyond its use to humans. 💚 ecologicalcitizen.net/statement-of... (Image: Jeekc, CC BY 2.5)
We're extending the deadline for Feral Lines submissions to the 14th October (originally 30th Sep)! Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories. ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🗣️ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories 🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩🔬 youtube.com/watch?v=Rfoc... #EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction
Preservation - An Ecocentric Story
YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen
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🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." 🫂 #RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview! #StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/08/26/s... @rewildingbritain.org.uk @scotrewilding.bsky.social @rewilding.org
Stories from the Field: an interview with May and Yasmine (Global Rewilding Alliance)
We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.
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