Substacks recommended by Jonathan P. Thompson

Recommended by Jonathan P. Thompson

A wide look at the energy landscape for those interested in clean energy and how it plays into the fight against climate change.

If you want to keep up with the energy news from across the U.S., you've got to follow the Energy News Network's daily digests and Energy News Weekly.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

Taking Bearings

By Adam M. Sowards

Reflecting on Place, History, and Writing

Soward's a master at looking backward in time to see what the future holds when it comes to history, politics, and public lands in the Western U.S.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

The Civil Conversations Project

By Wayne Hare

Changing the narrative that America tells itself about race.

Mountain Running & Living

By Sarah Lavender Smith

Personal essays with practical advice about trail running, mountain life & midlife grit.

Ausländer

By Wendy and Jonathan

Dispatches from a life, abroad. By Wendy and Jonathan Thompson.

Keep track of the zany adventures of Wendy and Jonathan (of the Land Desk).

- Jonathan P. Thompson

Alphabet Soup

By Etgar Keret

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

SoCal Water Wars

By John Earl

A local and reliable source of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting about SoCal water wars

The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It

By Leah Sottile

Journalism + Essays + Thoughts on Writing from Leah Sottile

Sage and Sand

By Patrick Donnelly

Notes on the fight for desert biodiversity in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts, from the edge of Death Valley

Patrick is a passionate desert defender who deeply understands the issues facing the arid ecosystems of the West.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

Green Rocks

By Ian

A newsletter that doesn't want dirty mining to ruin clean energy

Ian has a uniquely intelligent perspective on a controversial, complicated, and important issue.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

WILDERNESS

By River Selby (they/them)

Historical and current perspectives on conceptions of wilderness, ecology, and fire-suppression, written by a former hotshot and current PhD candidate.

Fires is an insider look (written by a former hotshot) at the complex world of wildfires, what's fueling them, and at the often confounding politics surrounding fire-suppression and prevention.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

Wordloaf

By Andrew Janjigian

A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian. "Pedantic crap!" — A (former) reader

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Letters From the Desert

By Letters From The Desert

Natural history, environmental issues, and other ruminations from the Mojave Desert by Chris Clarke

Chris knows and loves and fights for the Mojave Desert and illuminates its beauty with lovely words.

- Jonathan P. Thompson

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Recommended by Jonathan P. Thompson