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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 8h

Call for contributions to online symposium ECO+MYTHOLOGY 2026. "Co-create an eco-mythology with us in the weekend of Jan 17-18, 2026." Deadline Oct 31, 2025. Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/09/16/c...

ECO+MYTHOLOGY 2026: Call for contributions for our online NSU winter symposium (Deadline 31 october 2025)

The Word of 2026 will be Eco+mythology (home+narrative). Co-create an eco-mythology with us in the weekend of 17-18 January 2026 Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle: Ecol…

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 8h

Live online from @bioneers.org Rights of Nature 201: Moving Campaigns Forward, with Thomas Linzey & Mari Margil. Offering "focused guidance on organizing, drafting, and advancing Rights of Nature campaigns in communities..." Nov 6, 2025, 11AM–2PM PT. $125. www.bioneerslearning.org/rights-of-na...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 8h

The free-access Sep 2025 issue of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects is now available online. "In this issue of Deep Times, you will find articles and poems that help us see the vast, beautiful, and supportive web-fulness of our lives..." journal.workthatreconnects.org/september-20...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 8h

Open access essay by Rachel Holmes in Journal of Performance Magic - An Art Method of Trickery: illusion and beyond-human teachers "..postmodern difference has been recently appropriated by the posthuman movement as an expression of beyond-human sentience" doi.org/10.5920/jpm....

An Art Method of Trickery

This essay describes an art method of trickery which employs feats of misdirection, mimicry, and suggestion to conjure illusion. These magical skills revive the body as the locus of semiotic exchange,...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 9h

Available for free access online from Plants & Poetry - Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol. 5 "...a tender gathering of poetry, prose, art, and non-fiction honoring our plant relatives" www.plantsandpoetry.org/plant-people...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 10h

The beautiful new Living Earth Community website is "an ongoing knowledge commons for wondrous exploration of the biodiversity and intelligences woven throughout the natural world." From the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. Worth checking out!
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 11h

Episode 45 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast features Jon Pitt talking with Kate Brelje about his new book, Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan. soundcloud.com/networking-w... Open access copy of book available: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Episode 45 Jon Pitt's Botanical Imagination

In this episode, Jon Pitt returns to the podcast to share his new book, Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan. You can find your open access copy of Botanical Imagination here: http

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 11h

Article from Animal Ethics: How to test whether an attitude is speciesist "Speciesism, racism, and sexism are forms of discrimination because they involve unfairly disadvantaging members of certain groups." www.animal-ethics.org/how-to-test-...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 11h

The new issue of Langscape Magazine with the theme On Biocultural Abundance: Rethinking Poverty and Wealth is available with articles accessible online, including some related to plants
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 11h

Call for Submissions for 2026 Earth Ethics Journal. Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) invites essays, poetry or artworks for this in-house publication to be made available online free of charge by Apr 2026. Submit by Dec 10, 2025. www.earthlaws.org.au/our-programs...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 13h

Article in @therevelator.org Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well "Our research shows that spotted owls can thrive with mixed-severity fire, but logging in owl habitat for fire concerns may accelerate their extinction."
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Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well • The Revelator

Our research shows that spotted owls can thrive with mixed-severity fire, but logging in owl habitat for fire concerns may accelerate their extinction.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 13h

Revitalizing Our Relationship with Nature through Animal Communication, Cosmic Consciousness and Energetic Activism. Free 90-minute online workshop with Pea Horsley based on Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). Tue, Oct 21, 2025. 12pm ET. animalthoughts.com/revitalizing...

Sign up for FREE Revitalizing Our Relation with Nature Workshop

Join this FREE Live Workshop, Answer the Call of Remembrance and Enter the Silent Language of the Wild with experienced animal communicator, Pea Horsley.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 15h

New book from Solvejg Nitzke - Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care "...analyzes how trees act as mediators of interspecies relationships in popular science writing and creative nonfiction" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 16h

Short video from nature and plant communicators Basia Alexander and Dr. Jim Conroy - Ancient Oak Tree says: “Come Visit Me”… “I’m a 10!” Includes message to humanity from this ancient tree in the UK. youtu.be/HgDFUQy_p_o

Ancient Oak Tree says: “Come Visit Me”… “I’m a 10!”

YouTube video by TheTreeWhisperer JimConroy, PhD

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 16h

Nice short article from Planning Magazine @planningmagic.bsky.social by Benjamin Hitchings - The Magic of Mini Forests: Why the Miyawaki method helps communities in their fight against climate impact and rising urban heat. www.planning.org/planning/202...

The Magic of Mini Forests

Why the Miyawaki method helps communities in their fight against climate impact and rising urban heat.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 6d

Symphony of Nature: Birds, Bees & Mycelial Strings: Music To Help Us Find Our Way Home. Free online event Oct 6-10, 2025. "All beings are part of the musical web of life. Every Soul Brings Its Unique Vibration To Harmonize With The Symphony of Creation." www.symphonyofnature.com

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 6d

Free live online event. Plants as Healing Allies - A Ritual & Experiential Adventure Beyond Separation and Into Love. Guided by Robin Rose Bennett. Oct 8, 2025, 12 pm ET. "This will be a heart-opening, experiential reciprocation with the healing power of plants..." sacred-planet.kit.com/1365c53c1d

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 9d

New episode from Dr. Bernard Beitman's Connecting with Coincidence podcast - To Connect with Nature, Believe! Conscious Conversations with Trees, with Isabella Clark. "Trees are conscious beings that are able to communicate with us in surprising ways."
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To Connect with Nature, Believe! | Issy Clark, EP 418

YouTube video by Connecting with Coincidence

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 13d

The new issue of the open access @plantperspectives.bsky.social Plant Perspectives interdisciplinary plant studies journal (Vol 2, Issue 2) is available for free download online with the theme Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities. Many articles and items of interest! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 16d

Episode #44 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast features Kate Brelje in conversation with Olivia Sprinkel about her new book, To Hear the Trees Speak: Adventures in Listening.
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Episode 44 Olivia Sprinkel's To Hear The Trees Speak

In this episode, Kate Brelje talks with Olivia Sprinkel about her new book, To Hear the Trees Speak: Adventures in Listening. You can find your copy of To Hear the Trees Speak here: https://blackwells

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 16d

Action alert from @biologicaldiversity.org - Keep U.S. Forests Wild and Roadless "Today we have another chance to keep wild forests safe — for good." act.biologicaldiversity.org/gVinZCY6XUuo...

Keep U.S. Forests Wild and Roadless

Roadless forests are sanctuaries where grizzly bears, spotted owls, and other imperiled species can live wild and free. U.S. legislators have introduced legislation to restore, and make permanent, saf...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 17d

Action alert from Environment America - Call on Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides "By no longer selling neonicotinoid pesticides, Amazon can help forge...a greener future that supports the...relationship between healthy plants and pollinators." environmentamerica.org/take-action/...

Call on Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides

Bee populations are plummeting, but Amazon could help.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 17d

Free online program Co-Creation with the More than Human: Knowing Place - a Key to Survival, from Kincentric Leadership. Focusing on "Indigenous lifeways of caring for land and more-than-human kin." Thu, Oct 9, 2025. 11am-12pm CDT. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-creatio...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 18d

Join this free online conversation from @theplantinitiative.bsky.social with Indigenous Métis herbalist LoriAnn Bird about her new book Revered Roots: Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants. Dec 2, 2025, 12 pm CT. www.eventbrite.com/e/revered-ro...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d

Petition from @rainforestrescue.bsky.social A call to the governments of the world: Protect our climate – save the Amazon rainforest! "The Amazon rainforest sustains people, biodiversity, and our climate, yet it is under constant threat." www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...

#petition A call to the governments of the world: Protect our climate – save the Amazon rainforest!

The Amazon rainforest sustains people, biodiversity, and our climate, yet it is under constant threat. At COP30 in Brazil this November, governments must act. Protecting rainforests means protecting o...

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