Angus Hervey retweeted
AI spam is turning my inbox into a travesty.
I find I am spending more time deleting and blocking and filtering and yet I still maintain hope by subscribing to email newsletters from actual humans working hard and putting out gold.
Here in no particular order are 10 email newsletters I open every single time I see them.
These are the ones worth sorting through the spam to find and read.
What would you add to my list?
Angus Hervey - Fix The News (@angushervey) — An actual good news newspaper with an ‘Enlightenment Now’ / Our World In Data style zoom out on what’s going well in the world today (weekly, Thursdays)
fixthenews.com/
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files (@nickcave) — Fans send an array of questions, from heartfelt life queries to humorous and peculiar prompts, and Cave earnestly answers them (weekly).
theredhandfiles.com/
James Clear - The 3-2-1 Newsletter (@JamesClear) — A 30-second snack dose of quotes and entrepreneurial wisdom (weekly, Thursday mid-day)
jamesclear.com/3-2-1
Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) — Wonderfully byzantine weekly mag on everything artistic, musical, and creative (weekly, Friday mornings)
austinkleon.substack.com/
Rich Roll (@richroll) — Best podcaster around exploring the world through his uniquely articulate lens of upper echelon self-improvement (weekly)
richroll.com/subscribe/
Maria Popova - The Marginalian (@themarginalian) — Summary of 1-5 new longform blog posts exploring everything bibliophilic, creative, and meaning-of-life oriented (weekly, Sunday mornings)
themarginalian.org/
Paul Skallas - The Lindy Newsletter (@PaulSkallas) — A counterintuitive thinker’s take on contemporary fads and trends through the lens of ancient philosophy and what’s stood the test of time (occasional)
lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/
Lawrence Yeo - More To That (@moretothat) — A unique thinker exploring existentialism through heart-warming illustrations, book recommendations, curious questions, and intricate storytelling (occasional)
moretothat.com/
Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) — Step-ahead thoughts on how technology is steering us from brilliant professor and author of ‘Team Human’ (occasional)
rushkoff.substack.com/
Ed Yong - The Ed's Up (@edyong209) — Nobel-prize winning science writer’s personal updates along with the best bird photos around (occasional)
buttondown.com/edyong209
Angus Hervey retweeted
Most people have no idea that the U.S. is currently pulling off the largest "plumbing" project in human history right in the Florida Everglades.
For nearly a century, we basically tried to kill the Everglades by draining them to build houses and farms. We turned a massive wet swamp into a dry, rotting mess. That dry soil didn't just sit there—it started "bleeding" carbon back into the atmosphere like a massive, invisible leak.
Now, there is a massive federal and state mission to literally reverse the flow of water and re-flood the land. They are calling it "Restoration," but it’s really a massive environmental "U-turn."
And it’s working. New data shows that putting the water back is doing more for the air than almost any "green" tech we’ve invented:
• The Squeeze: The re-flooded land is now sucking 14 million tons of CO2 out of the sky every year.
• The Math: That’s like erasing the exhaust of 3 million cars annually.
• The Powerhouse: The coastal mangroves are the real MVPs, trapping that carbon in the mud and locking it away for good.
We spent billions breaking the planet's natural filter. Now we're spending billions to turn it back on—and the results are staggering.
We’ve known how to move water for a century—so why did it take a climate crisis to use it like this?
Angus Hervey retweeted
In 2006, the fuel mix on the Texas electricity grid was 83 percent gas and coal. In 2016 it was 73 percent gas and coal. So far in 2026, it is 45 percent gas and coal.
Angus Hervey retweeted
#TeamCSIR recorded a 10 000-fold reduction in E. coli at the Mossel Bay Municipality's wastewater treatment works following an algae-based treatment. The special algae mix, cultivated at the CSIR’s microbiology laboratories in Stellenbosch, is a low-cost, low-energy way to improve water quality for nearby farming.
“The algae are naturally occurring biomass, so we are using nature to heal itself,” says CSIR researcher, Dr Luyanda Ndlela. The CSIR is also exploring how the algal biomass might be harvested and repurposed after treatment for feed, bio-packaging or biofuels, contributing to a #circulareconomy.
🎥 Watch to learn more!
🔗 csir.co.za/media-hub/news/mo…
ℹ️ This project is funded locally by the @dstigovza through a European Biodiversity Partnership programme.