A few years ago, despite many years of climate activism, I began to learn about a side of the climate I hadn't heard mentioned before, what I've come to call the living side of climate, that having to do with water cycles, soils, biodiversity, ecological cycles and feedbacks. Pumping carbon gasses into the atmosphere isn't the only way we change climate. We also change it whenever we damage land. Yep, ecological destruction is also climate destruction. Ecological health, likewise, is climate health.

The science behind this is deep and goes back decades. So why don't we know about it? That's one of the questions that impelled me to start the Substack site, The Climate According to Life, to begin an ongoing, now 14 months long, writing project aimed at answering that very questions, while at the same illuminating the astounding biotic details of how life created and now upholds, barely, this thing we call climate.

Sometimes I write things that don't have anything to do with climate, which I'll post here. But I'll be mostly reposting from that site to this one, along with articles published elsewhere, such as resilience. org. That may seem redundant, but it allows you to access the material on this platform, which you are used to and have already paid to join. It also allows me to reach folks in the Medium universe, like you.

Thanks for coming by. Hope I can make the stay worthwhile.