John Walker
@earthfgardener.bsky.social
Earth-friendly gardener, writer, author of beautiful books, walker, ponderer, questioner, citizen rewilder, raiser of treelings.
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Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
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December 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
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Escape the stress – festive and otherwise – with a #midwinter project that weaves calm, control and creativity back into the season.
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Escape the stress – festive and otherwise – with a #midwinter project that weaves calm, control and creativity back into the season.
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
Escape the stress – festive and otherwise – with a #midwinter project that weaves calm, control and creativity back into the season.
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Escape the stress – festive and otherwise – with a #midwinter project that weaves calm, control and creativity back into the season.
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
My new, swirling, unwinding, relaxing and #stress-busting renewable #gardening article for Hartley Botanic magazine❄️
hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/wea...
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🌎 Livestock dominates global land, yet yields little food.
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity
iffs.earth
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🌎 Livestock dominates global land, yet yields little food.
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
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"Based on >100 peer-reviewed studies, this analysis finds that dietary change plant-based with rewilding provides far greater environmental benefits than any grazing-based approach.
(...) this makes plant-based + rewilding one of the most powerful solutions to the climate and ecological crises."
(...) this makes plant-based + rewilding one of the most powerful solutions to the climate and ecological crises."
🌎 Livestock dominates global land, yet yields little food.
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.
FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity
iffs.earth
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Based on >100 peer-reviewed studies, this analysis finds that dietary change plant-based with rewilding provides far greater environmental benefits than any grazing-based approach.
(...) this makes plant-based + rewilding one of the most powerful solutions to the climate and ecological crises."
(...) this makes plant-based + rewilding one of the most powerful solutions to the climate and ecological crises."
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1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.
Hope you enjoy it too!
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Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.
Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
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Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot
Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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This was published the day after the Heaton Park terrorist attack. I find its grim combination of antisemitism, conspiracy fictions and agrarian populism deeply worrying, as this is how it all kicked off a century ago. 🧵
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Zionist Money Rules • Farms Not Factories
The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. “The way... Read More
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October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This was published the day after the Heaton Park terrorist attack. I find its grim combination of antisemitism, conspiracy fictions and agrarian populism deeply worrying, as this is how it all kicked off a century ago. 🧵
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farmsnotfactories.org/articles/zio...
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Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot
Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
September 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
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A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing
The web of life is unravelling fast
The web of life is unravelling fast
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing
The web of life is unravelling fast
The web of life is unravelling fast
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Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Read that @hopenothate.org.uk article alongside my article in the Guardian today, and you see a deeply concerning picture of what politics in this country has become.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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September 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Read that @hopenothate.org.uk article alongside my article in the Guardian today, and you see a deeply concerning picture of what politics in this country has become.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
September 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Watch: "Imagine the future that you would actually run towards, something that makes your heart sing."
We joined Nathalie Nahai to talk about our Transformative Adaptation book, in which @mandascott.bsky.social calls for people to imagine 'thrutopias'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic7...
We joined Nathalie Nahai to talk about our Transformative Adaptation book, in which @mandascott.bsky.social calls for people to imagine 'thrutopias'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic7...
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Watch: "Imagine the future that you would actually run towards, something that makes your heart sing."
We joined Nathalie Nahai to talk about our Transformative Adaptation book, in which @mandascott.bsky.social calls for people to imagine 'thrutopias'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic7...
We joined Nathalie Nahai to talk about our Transformative Adaptation book, in which @mandascott.bsky.social calls for people to imagine 'thrutopias'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic7...
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.
McDonald's plans $200 million investment to promote regenerative practices on US cattle ranches
McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.
bit.ly
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
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This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵