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"The Peach Caretaker: The hidden history of the Navajo peach trees and the woman resurfacing it" is a touching short passage by
Amy Stewart from OrionMagazine from her recent book The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

The Peach Caretaker - Orion Magazine The hidden history of the Navajo peach trees and the woman resurfacing it

Orion Magazine is inviting short pitches for their upcoming issue about mushrooms. They are looking for pitches for nonfiction stories (essay, memoir, or reporting) about important mushrooms in history. Deadline July 30, 2024. https://orion.submittable.com/submit/295022/pitch-call-mushrooms-summer-2025

New episode ( #36) of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast: Kate Brelje interviews Madii Kasem about her work communicating with animals and plants as a consultant, writer, and teacher. Plants covered include dandelions, roses, and trees.

Episode 36 Kate Brelje interviews Madii Kasem In this episode, Kate and Madii Kasem discuss her work communicating with animals and plants as a consultant, writer, and teacher. Plants covered include dandelions, roses, and trees. Learn more about

Call for Conference Papers - Emplacements & Mobilities: Changing Olive Entanglements Around & Beyond the Mediterranean, October 17-18, 2024, Mytilene, Greece. Apply by August 15, 2024. Request full CFP from nader.zaza (at) zmo.de. Sponsored by Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and University Of The Aegean/ Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου

Orion Magazine offers 3 Online Writing Workshops with applications due July 30, 2024 to be held in September - October 2024: Creative Writing in the Anthropocene; Generative Environmental Nonfiction; & From Proposal to Page: Online Nonfiction Writing https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/

Video recording of July 17, 2024 webinar: Collaborative Ecological Healing, Experience InterSpecies Communication During Practical Demonstrations with The Tree Whisperer, Dr. Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander as part of Ubiquity University's Humanity Rising Summit Series https://youtube.com/live/NW9dvqj4r2U

Seed Saving in a Time of Change: Ancient Practice for Modern Times. Free webinar from the Seed Library Network, sponsored by Experimental Farm Network July 31, 2024, 4:30 PST, Free. "Learn the ancient practice of saving seeds." https://givebutter.com/SeedsJuly31

Free webinar from Advaya Sacred Sites: The Importance of Ancient Wisdom in Regenerative Futureswith Rutendo Ngara, Rachael Knight and Mindahi Bastida of Earthrise Collective, Mon, Jul 22, 5-6 pm BST.

Sacred Sites: The Importance of Ancient Wisdom in Regenerative Futures Free webinar with Rutendo Ngara, Rachael Knight and Mindahi Bastida from Earthrise Collective. In a world dominated by intellect-centered solutions to problems, the Earthrise collective stands as a rare alternative, centering ritual, sacredness, and indigenous knowledge. This is a conversation, a co...

Action alert from Rainforest Action Network - RAN Procter & Gamble: Respect our planet and human rights "Tell P&G to clean up its supply chains"

P&G: End the Carnage Procter & Gamble sure is a corporate leader...in sourcing from companies that enable deforestation and rights violations.

Free downloadable book from Open Humanities Press - Fungi Media: Performing Fungosexual Mutations by Piotr Bockowski "Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles" https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fungi-media/

Upcoming webinar from Interspecies Internet with writer & bioethicist Melanie Challenger, Co-creating Co-existence in a Multispecies World: How Do We Do It? Jul 27, 2024, 5pm BST/ 12pm ET/ 9am PT. Free.

Upcoming: Melanie Challenger, Co-creating Co-existence in a Multispecies World: How Do We Do It? — Interspecies Internet Melanie's lecture explores how human activities endanger species and disrupt ecosystems. She will introduce an NYU project focused on improving communication with other species, considering their perspectives, and including them in decisions to foster a fairer, more compassionate world.

The Way of Kinship: Re-awakening our Bond with an Intelligent, Living Earth, 6-week in-person course in London, UK, Wed, Sept 11-Wed, Oct 16, 2024 from Kincentric Leadership. Speakers, facilitation, field day. Standard price £285.

The Way of Kinship: A six week course How can we collaborate with a living intelligent Earth? What does the more than human world have to teach us about how to respond to the climate and biodiversity crisis? What can we learn from the intelligence and communicative capacity of non-human beings? How can we find our way through the polycr...

Mind the mangroves! Some Kenyans combat the threat of logging with hidden beehives - article from AP by Zelipha Kirobi "Beekeeping conservationists are concealing hives in Kenya’s mangroves to deter illegal loggers."

Mind the mangroves! Some Kenyans combat the threat of logging with hidden beehives Some conservation-minded Kenyans are trying to protect threatened mangroves from loggers by hiding beehives in them.

The open-access Plant Perspectives journal https://www.whpress.co.uk/PP.html is currently seeking book reviewers for several books and is creating a database for potential reviewers in the future. If interested, contact Dr. Subarna De, Book Reviews Editor, at https://subarnade.com/

New podcast episode from Kollibri terre Sonnenblume in which he interviews Paul Moss, Executive Director of The Plant Initiative about plant advocacy, its relation to agriculture, "invasive" plants, anthropocentrism, plant intelligence & more.

Ep. 1: Plant Advocacy Interview with Paul Moss, Executive Director of the Plant Initiative, a plant advocacy organization. We cover what plant advocacy is, and discuss its relatio...

The new issue of the open access The Ecological Citizen Journal is now available for free download at https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=Vol%207%20No%202 Articles on a variety of ecocentric topics!

The Plant Initiative's July 2024 monthly e-newsletter is now available online at https://mailchi.mp/plantinitiative/e-mail-newsletter-15-july-2024 listing many events, resources, opportunities and actions related to increased respect for plants. Check it out and subscribe free at www.plantinitiative.org!

The Great Turning as a Wild Call to Awakening with Adrián Villaseñor Galarza - a Work That Reconnects Network Webinar. Aug 24, 2024, 10:00 am-12:00 pm PDT. Donations of $25 - $35 requested. https://workthatreconnects.org/event/the-great-turning-as-a-wild-call-to-awakening/

Thinking Like a Mountain: Reflections on Forty Years of Deep Ecology Work - a Work That Reconnects Network webinar with John Seed & Pat Fleming, Sat, Jul 20, 5-7pm PDT. Donations of $25-$35 requested. https://workthatreconnects.org/event/thinking-like-a-mountain-reflections-on-forty-years-of-deep-ecology-work/

Free, online conf + Q&A, Mother Earth Delegation of United Original Nations, July 20, 2024 @ 2 PM PDT, "Hear the wisdom shared by a delegation of elders who come with directions from Mother Earth to help us walk through these times of great chaos and change."

The Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations | Center for Sacred Studies Join us in an online gathering that the Mother Earth has called. Hear the wisdom shared by a delegation of elders who come with directions from Mother Earth to help us walk through these times of great chaos and change

Free report from Forests and Finance & Rainforest Action Network - RAN Banking on Biodiversity Collapse: Tracking the Banks and Investors Driving Tropical Forest Destruction "Banks have pumped over $307 billion directly into agriculture & forestry companies driving tropical deforestation" https://forestsandfinance.org/banking-on-biodiversity-collapse/

Livingmaps Conference: More-than-human Mappings, to be held November 15-16, 2024 (provisional), in-person in London, UK and online. From Livingmaps Network "...to gather together the threads of more-than-human mappings into a special event..." https://www.livingmaps.org/morethanhuman-mappings-conference-2024

From the ReConnect with Plant Wisdom Podcast from Tigrilla Gardenia What Cattail & Chickweed Want to Tell Us in These Stressful Times. "Embracing natural insights from these Spirit Wild Plants helps you navigate life's stresses with grace and authenticity."

Ep.65 What Cattail & Chickweed Want to Tell Us in These Stressful Times | Tigrilla Gardenia Over the last seven months, I discovered an unexpected trend. And I think it has to do with some plants helping us through these stressful times we are in.

August 31, 2024 extended deadline for Call for Abstracts for the edited book “The Political Ecology of Forests in West Africa” "...book seeks to document the politics, struggles, and conflicts that are (re)defining the political ecologies of forests across the West African region."

What's "invasive" in this photo? New Substack posting about alternative ways to think about invasive plants from Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume "What's 'invading' here is a system, a system based on a Bronze Age worldview of 'dominion' over nature, imposed on 40% of the land in the continental US, and executed primarily for the profit of a few."

What's "invasive" in this photo? Let's take a close look

4 Growing Threats to Europe’s Forests: Logging, Bioenergy, Wildfires and Pests - Article from World Resources Institute by Sarah Carter "Europe’s forests face increasing pressures." https://www.wri.org/insights/europe-forest-loss-drivers

Action alert from Center for Biological Diversity Save Florida Panthers' Last Wild Stronghold "Tell federal officials to deny the project's permit — the only way to protect Florida panthers and other imperiled species from this deadly new development"

Save Florida Panthers' Last Wild Stronghold Florida panthers once roamed free across much of the U.S. Southeast. But because of habitat loss, they're now clinging to existence in a small sliver of their old home. Stop developers from destroying what little these endangered cats have left.

Action alert from Center for Biological Diversity Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife "Marshes, wet meadows, swamps, and other wetlands in the United States need your help"

Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife Marshes, swamps, and other wetlands in the U.S. are disappearing — and much of what remains isn't federally protected. Imperiled wildlife like birds, fish, and trees need healthy wetlands to survive. Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to act.

Action alert from Rainforest Rescue Argentina: Stop the Chaco forest chainsaw massacre “The Chaco in Argentina, one of the most threatened forest areas in the world, must be protected.”

Argentina: Stop the Chaco forest chainsaw massacre! During his election campaign, Argentina’s President Milei brandished a chainsaw to symbolize his plans to cut the state down to size. Now the legislature of Chaco province has taken Milei’s chainsaw message literally, passing a law that removes protection for hundreds of thousands of hectares of...

New podcast episode #35 from Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene - Kate Brelje talks with Dr. Suryatapa Jha about plant biology, plant humanities, and pedagogy. Plants covered include Arabidopsis thaliana, magnolia trees, & Himalayan rhododendrons.

Episode 35 Kate Brelje interviews Suryatapa Jha In this episode, Kate and Dr. Suryatapa Jha discuss plant biology, plant humanities, and pedagogy. Plants covered include Arabidopsis thaliana, magnolia trees, and Himalayan rhododendrons. To connect