The Plant Initiative awarded 16 grants of $500 each in Oct 2025 to organizations working to increase respect for plants, encourage ethical behavior toward plants, and to support development of an effective movement toward these goals. For a listing, see plantinitiative.org/news

Free webinar from Organization of Nature Evolutionaries (ONE) - Can Plants Save the Planet? Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 12pm PT. "..dive into the astonishing intelligence of the plant world, from root networks to heart medicine.." With Pam Montgomery & Tammi Sweet. www.natureevolutionaries.com/events-progr...

Action alert from Environment America - Tell Lowe’s: Commit to conserving critical caribou habitat in the boreal forest "Large-scale logging is fragmenting this northern forest at a rate of one-and-a-half football fields every minute..." environmentamerica.org/minnesota/ta...

Applications are invited by The Natural History Museum for the 2026–2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, "a two-year program dedicated to co-creating a 'natural history for a world in crisis'" $2,000 stipends. Learn more and apply by Dec 5, 2025. thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-call-20...

Learn and take action in this posting from @therevelator.org by Marina De León - Save This Species: The ‘Little Three-Horned Devil,’ One of Puerto Rico’s Rarest Plants "...this rare shrub has gone unnoticed and ignored for decades..." therevelator.org/save-little-...

Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions" www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

The Cosmos Within Us: Living A Path of Transformation, Based on Brian Swimme's Powers of the Universe, is an online, live, 5-session, weekly class starting Nov 17. 2025 with writer & photographer Betsey Crawford @thesouloftheearth.bsky.social, 10am-12pm PT, C$99. earthliteracies.org/betsey-crawf...

Open source (free access) article by Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Making Home with Plants: Pandemic Edition, in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology "...discusses the roles of houseplants in making home and building worlds." www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

The McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy is offering a series of 8 modular and asynchronous online ethnobotany classes led by experts. Cost varies from $120 - $350/class or $1,000 for the series. Prices increase Nov 30, 2025. "Begin Your Journey Into Plant Wisdom" mckenna.academy/mka-programs...

The online Gathering At The Cosmic Fire 2025 Summit is "a call to be come together — heart to heart, hand to hand, soul to soul —and to answer the call to be of service to our communities and to the world." Nov 17-21, 2025. Free. From Shamans Directory. www.gatheringatthecosmicfire2025.com

Episode 47 of the Brainforest Cafe podcast with Dennis McKenna "The Faerie Rings", a Magical Tale of Healing and Rebellion, a conversation with Zina Brown, about his "visionary film exploring plant medicines, courage, and resistance to tyranny..." youtu.be/ilAtsbptZCU

From Weave News: How to Listen When Nature Speaks, by Ryan Krugman. The @talking-rivers-inc.bsky.social toolkit, accessible free at talkingrivers.org/listening-to..., "helps individuals and organizations relearn their relationship with the living world..." www.weavenews.org/stories/2025...

4 fellowships offered in 2025-26 by Carnegie Mellon U’s Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation & Posner Center for Special Collections. 2 fellowships are for research, 2 for creative practice. $3,500 stipends. Apply between Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 11, 2026. www.library.cmu.edu/distinctive-...

Article from @theguardian.com by @phoebeweston.bsky.social How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health "In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss..." helping their health. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Action alert from @survivalinternational.org Protect uncontacted peoples' lands "...more than 95 percent of uncontacted peoples are having their forests invaded and ripped up to extract resources such as timber, metals and oil..." act.survivalinternational.org/page/176014/...

Article from @theguardian.com by @phoebeweston.bsky.social As forests are cut down butterflies are losing their colours "The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting posting from @humansandnature.bsky.social Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You By Lydia Cheshewalla "...an artist who works primarily with elements from nature, seeking to form relationships with the land and the more-than-human" humansandnature.org/before-dream...

In Episode #47 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast, Felipe S. Molina & David Delgado Shorter are in conversation with Kate Brelje about The Archive of Healing archiveofhealing.com and plant relations. on.soundcloud.com/rKBTVid6G5nx...

Essay from @orionmagazine.bsky.social by Priyanka Kumar - Eating Apples: Finding hidden happiness in nature’s variety. "I suggest finding beauty in the apple’s flesh." orionmagazine.org/article/eati...

Cocreation with the More-than-human: Nature on the Board. Learning session from Kincentric Leadership, Thu, Nov 6, 16:00GMT. With Brontie Ansell, co-founder & managing director of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social. Free, online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-creatio...

On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty. Online & in-person conversation with Rowen White & Michelle Glowa. Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 6pm PT. Sponsored by CIIS. $21.99. "...a culture of belonging needs to be at the heart of food systems change" www.ciis.edu/events/indig...

Action alert from @enviroaction.bsky.social Tell the EPA: Save the bees. Restrict neonic coated seeds. "Just one seed coated in neonic pesticides can kill 80,000 bees." environmental-action.org/take-action/...

Action alert from @avaaz.org Rights for Stingless Bees "Peru could grant its native bees — and nature itself — legal rights to exist and flourish" secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Action alert from @amazonwatch.org Back the Wampís Resistance to Illegal Mining "The Wampis Nation is taking action where the Peruvian government has failed, defending their rivers and forests from illegal miners..." amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

Action alert from US PIRG - Tell Walmart: Stop the sale of bee-killing neonic pesticides "Over the past few years, bees have experienced some of the worst die-offs in recent history." pirg.org/take-action/...

Action alert from @enviroaction.bsky.social - Tell Home Depot: Get bee-killing neonics off your shelves "Neonics damage bees' brains and can even kill them outright..." environmental-action.org/take-action/...

Article by Paola Sanchez-Castaneda from Harvard's CSWR - Tobacco, America’s Master Plant. "examines how tobacco functions as a “master plant” for the Muysca of Suba, Colombia, serving as a central mediator in spiritual, ritual, and political life..." cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/10...

Free, online from AELA & @lawyersfornature.bsky.social Nature on the Board: What's Possible? Mon, Nov 17, 2025. 8:30am GMT "organisations & companies around the world are creating ways for nature to be represented in their governance structures & decision making" events.humanitix.com/nature-board...

Plant Intelligence Symposium. Free, online or in-person in Basel, Switzerland. Oct 31-Nov 2, 2025. In English. Many speakers. "...how plants can be approached aesthetically and politically as intentional and cognizing beings." plants-intelligence.ch/save-the-dat...

Action alert from Bruno Manser Fonds - Stop the Malaysian Land Grab in Papua New Guinea "In Papua New Guinea, primary rainforests are being clearcut on a large scale..." www.stopfca.org/en/petition/

Action alert from @biologicaldiversity.org - Save Jaguar Migration Corridors "Tell Mexican Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum and her administration to stop this railway in its tracks to protect people and wildlife." act.biologicaldiversity.org/9wm4ApjHlkWr...

Podcast recording from McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy - Kevin Reed: The Entheogen Stewardship Project — Protecting Sacred Plants and Indigenous Wisdom. In conversation with Dennis McKenna youtu.be/0xtNKFmnTik

Article about opportunities for natural regrowth of forests from Earth.com by Eric Ralls. Satellites detect a strange phenomenon occurring in forests around the world www.earth.com/news/satelli...

Plants, People, Planet Journal @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social invites calls for change about plant-focused issues or challenges "We invite groups of experts to present bold and succinct calls to action to those in positions to elicit and enact change" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

From RE-PEAT @re-peat.bsky.social The top myths of the European peat industry debunked "The European peat industry loves to make us think that mining peatlands is the best possible thing we can do in these times of ecological collapse and global heating." repeatearth.substack.com/p/the-top-my...

Article from @orionmagazine.bsky.social by Gary Ferguson - Twilight Trees: An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west "...much of what is now ponderosa forest is turning fast into permanent grass and shrublands." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...

Herbalism Summit - Medicine for People, Medicine for the Planet is a free online gathering from Ecoversity · Oct 21–24, 2025, 10am-4pm PT. "Learn from 24+ Respected Herbal Educators & Wisdom Keepers" www.ecoversity.org/herbalism-su...

Proposals invited for book series Environment, Health, and Well-being (Michigan State Univ Press) "...welcomes projects...which make visible..the timeliness and necessity of interdisciplinary research on the relationships between humanity and environments" msupress.org/environment-...

Proposals invited for book series Environment, Senses and Emotions (University of Exeter Press) edited by Tatiana Konrad. "...encourages diverse theoretical approaches to understanding the interrelations among environmental crises, the senses and emotions" www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...

The Nature Institute's podcast series, In Dialogue with Nature, includes several episodes related to plants including Celebrating Trees, A Conversation on Plant Intelligence, Are Plants Intelligent?, and The Wisdom of Plants - with Craig Holdrege & others. www.natureinstitute.org/podcast/in-d...

Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 4-7pm CEST, Limbo exhibition opening by RE-PEAT @re-peat.bsky.social. A collective exhibition on peatlands as terrains in flux, Frederiksoord, Netherlands. "...a collective exhibition about peatlands, slow, breathing landscapes..." Free. www.eventbrite.com/e/limbo-exhi...

The Oct 2025 issue of The Plant Initiative's free monthly email newsletter lists many events, resources, opportunities, and action items related to the human-plant connection! Access it at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat.... Subscribe at plantinitiative.org

In episode 46 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast, Joela Jacobs interviews Kate Brelje about her work with plants. (Learn more about Kate's work in philosophy at katebrelje.wordpress.com) soundcloud.com/networking-w...

Subtexts Workshop - Becoming Plants: Storytelling through vegetal life. In-person, London, UK. Oct 28, 2025. 5:30pm. With Giulia Carabelli & Sarah Keenan. Free. "Can we tell stories with plants & how does this help us to navigate the present/imagine futures?" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/subtexts-w...

Free online program - Collaborating with Trees: In Conversation with Espen Hjort and Evgenia Emets. Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 12-1:30pm ET. Artists "bringing the trees directly into their creative processes as collaborators" www.wavehill.org/calendar/col...

Call for Abstracts for special issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal Of Criticism and Theory with theme of Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives. Submit by Nov 30, 2025. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

Plant, Baby, Plant is a new grassroots movement started by Robin Wall Kimmerer "to care for the Earth in the garden and in the streets." "...we will counter the forces of destruction with creative resistance in support of life." plantbabyplant.com

Phyto-⁠Travellers is an art installation by Eva-Maria Lopez from Jul 26-Oct 26, 2025 at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. "...a living archive that traces the close entanglement of natural and colonial history in a narrative gesture" zkm.de/en/2025/07/e...

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...

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...