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...

Recording of webinar with Hope Fitzgerald - Infinite Wisdom: Interview with Dr. Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander "What happens when we listen carefully to the whispers of trees?" youtu.be/2tw739_bspY

The video recording is now available free of the Plant Initiative webinar Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations: A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi, that was held Sep 18, 2025. Topics include invasive plants, plant humanities, and more. youtu.be/TLpmI9sIlJs

Action alert from @oregonwild.bsky.social Defend the forests, waters, and wildlife of Eastern Oregon "Please take a few moments to support conservation of the forests, meadows, streams, and all living things across millions of acres of Oregon’s Blue Mountains." oregonwild.org/defend-the-f...

Petition from US PIRG - Tell Home Depot: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides "...last winter, U.S. beekeepers reported the highest rate of colony collapse on record" pirg.org/take-action/...

The Plant Initiative's Sep 2025 monthly e-newsletter contains a comprehensive listing of events, resources, opportunities and action items related to the human-plant connection. Access it at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat... Subscribe free at plantinitiative.org

"Weeding Is Not Unskilled Labor" is an interesting posting on ethical and other implications of weeding from Kollibri terre Sonnenblume. "Weeding is killing, and like all killing, should be approached with careful attention and humble intention." kollibri.substack.com/p/weeding-is...

Temporary Temples Online Crop Circle Conference 2025, Oct 4-Nov 2, 2025. Online lectures over 5 weekends. Free with purchase of 2022 Crop Circles Yearbook (£25.99). temporarytemples.co.uk/event/summer...

15th Annual Inland Northwest Permaculture Convergence, Theme: Roots and Culture, Sep 19–21, 2025, Rice, Washington "...invites you to gather in community, ground your roots, and celebrate the intricate web of life that sustains us" $25-$50. inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com/2025-inland-...

Action alert from Bruno Manser Fonds - Save the Baram Forest [in Malaysia] from logging "The logging license was granted by the Sarawak government behind closed doors..." www.savebaramforest.org/en/petition/

Free webinar for the Asia/Pacific region from @stopecocide.bsky.social with many NGO sponsors: Recognising the Crime of Ecocide to Protect Nature. Thu, Sep 25, 2025. 16:00-17:00 Sydney Time. www.stopecocide.earth/events/recog...

8-module online course from Advaya "with 21 extraordinary teachers, writers & wisdom-keepers. Kinship is about what we all crave in our everyday lives: feeling truly connected...or simply remembering we’re part of something bigger than ourselves" £120 advaya.life/courses/kins...

Hope Fitzgerald interviews Basia Alexander & Dr. Jim Conroy "...they share their extraordinary work in healing trees & partnering with Nature through conscious collaboration" Online. Sep 17, 2025, 7:30 pm ET. Free. mailchi.mp/45d5282a0f99...

Short video from Basia Alexander, an intuitive interspecies communicator, with a deep message for humanity from a 900 yr-old oak tree. "Find out what this tree says about the elemental song of the Oak species, teaching other trees, and continuing to grow." youtu.be/J1sh-iLEdIM

Petition from @wemoveeurope.bsky.social Stop destroying our coast "The Canary Islands are in danger" by a massive leisure megaproject. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-2-...

Article from @therevelator.org by Karen Mockler - Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History - or About to Become History? "Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us" but herbaria are now under threat. therevelator.org/endangered-h...

Action alert from Old-Growth Forest Network until Sep 19, 2025 - Help Protect Roadless Areas [in the US] "9,116,931 acres of Old-Growth Forest is within Inventoried Roadless Areas." www.oldgrowthforest.net/urgent-oppor...

From @harvarddivinity.bsky.social "The Sacred Plants and Fungi of the Americas project documents the rich cultural heritage of psychedelic substances used by Native American peoples across centuries of spiritual, therapeutic, and ceremonial practices." www.sacredplantsamericas.com

New episode of the Wonderstruck Podcast - Fungi Will Change How You See the World: Mycologist Giuliana Furci "...we speak to mycologist Giuliana Furci, a self-taught champion for fungi and founder of...the Fungi Foundation" youtu.be/X_a1VQAx0xw

Free online event from Oak Spring Garden Foundation & Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social - Plants, Memory, Belonging, Oct 8, 2025, 4-6pm GMT. Featuring Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador & more. osgf.org/programs-and...

New book from @milkweededitions.bsky.social The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant @jallenpaisant.bsky.social, also author of a book of poetry, Thinking with Trees. milkweed.org/book/the-pos...

Action alert from @amazonwatch.org Stand With the Kakataibo Indigenous Guards "Organized crime is spreading across the Amazon, fueling deforestation, violence, and territorial invasions. The Kakataibo people in Peru are on the front lines of this crisis..." amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

From the More-then-Human Life Program (MOTH), the MOTH Ideas Hub is a new blog that "disseminates promising & generative more-than-human ideas within & across disciplines, working as a catalyst for action & source of inspiration." Submissions are invited. mothrights.org/ideas-hub

The More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program's Festival of Ideas is "an annual academic and public space dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of ideas for earthly flourishing" will be held May 18-20, 2026 in NY City. Apply to present by Nov 15, 2025. mothrights.org/moth-festival/

Action alert from @enviroaction.bsky.social Tell Walmart: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides 'These toxic bee-killing chemicals are ravaging our native pollinators and making our fields, gardens and lawns more toxic to the very species that help them grow.' environmental-action.org/take-action/...

Action alert by Sep 19, 2025 from @americanrivers.bsky.social Defend Roadless Rule Protections for your Clean Water, Rivers, and Wildlife. USDA is seeking to roll back the Roadless Rule, "which is the sole protection for 94,000 miles of rivers on public lands." act.americanrivers.org/page/87510/a...

“Skin contains land and birds”: Understanding inner healing intelligence through critical vitalism and Indigenous thought - interesting open (free) access article in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies by Keith Williams, Andrée-Anne Bédard & Laura Pustarfi akjournals.com/view/journal...

Free online book launch of The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking through Arboreality with editors David Macauley & Laura Pustarfi @laurapustarfi.bsky.social, Tue, Sep 9, 2025, 5:30pm PT, sponsored by California Institute of Integral Studies www.ciis.edu/events/wisdo...

Free Project Coyote webinar - How to Foster Wellbeing in Humans & Nature w/ Dr. Darcia Narvaez. Sep 9, 2025, 12pm PT. "explores what we can learn from Indigenous cultures & other species about emotional wellbeing, raising our young & fostering community" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nominations for the 2025 Heartwood Award invited by the Center for Spirituality in Nature. Deadline: Sep 30, 2025. "...highlights a person or organization who have made an impact on deepening our understanding of eco-spirituality." centerforspiritualityinnature.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Open (free) access to new book, Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities, includes chapter on plant ethics for the arts by Magdalena Zamorska: Phyto-care protocols: An ethics for living (with) plants in arts [select open access PDF format] url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/hb7FCzqg1D...

Call for Manuscripts by Peter Lang for series on Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches. "...aims to publish scholarly work that addresses common challenges across the fields of plant and animal studies from interdisciplinary perspectives." www.peterlang.com/series/paia

New book by Gregory F. Tague, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics. "...examines plants, animals, and political philosophy...It argues that humans should set aside and leave to their growth vast tracts of forests, wetlands, and grasslands." www.peterlang.com/document/152...

The book Materiality of Air, edited by Tatiana Konrad, is available open (free) access online, and includes a chapter on plant horror: "A Microbiological Menace: Killer Spores and Toxic Pollen in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction" by Natalie Dederichs. www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/mat...

Action alert from @rainforestrescue.bsky.social Hands off the EU’s environmental laws "The laws that protect the environment and nature in the EU are more important than ever." www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...

Dr. Giovanni Aloi: The Lawn – Nothing to do With Nature is an interesting interview of @giovannialoi.bsky.social in Landezine about his new book, Lawn. "Gardens and green areas of all types should be regarded as perpetually belonging to all earthlings." landezine.com/dr-giovanni-...

Free online program from Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi - Four Sisters Garden. Sep 18, 2025, 6-7:30pm CT. "...hear from traditional knowledge keepers & Indigenous environmentalists...about Daḳota kinship with the Four Sisters: Corn, Sunflower, Squash & Beans." www.wakantipi.org/events

Inviting performance artists, facilitators, musicians, poets & other plant practitioners to express interest in contributing to the 2nd ROOTED festival in Aarhus, Denmark, Jun 13-14, 2026, bringing together plants, people & art. Apply by Sep 30, 2025. www.lienejurgelane.com/open-call-2026

Free, open access German/English edited book, Literature and Botany. "This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thought, and human imagination." vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

Free download of 72-page Theosis magazine, Vol 2, from Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions - includes articles on plants and fungi. "...explore diverse cultures and histories, religious traditions, and spiritual landscapes." cswr.hds.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

Global Day of Listening from Pachamama Alliance, Sep 21, 2025. This day is "...a collective act of reverent attention, a day to slow down and open to guidance from the Earth, from the Spirit of Life, and from the wisdom that flows through the living world." landing.pachamama.org/day-of-liste...

Online conference from the Scientific & Medical Network - Beyond the Brain: Further Reaches of Consciousness Research, Nov 7-9, 2025. Many well-known speakers. £95 early registration. "...leading conference on the frontiers of consciousness research where science meets spirit..." beyondthebrain.org

The Sep 2025 issue of The New Ecozoic Reader "Critical Reflections, Stories, Dream Experiences & Practices for an Ecological Age" is available for free download online, containing close to 2 dozen articles. Worth checking out! fore.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

In Episode 42 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast, Kate Brelje talks with Dani Lamorte about their new book, Nobody's Psychic, and their newsletter Groundcherry. on.soundcloud.com/wBRnjj9oYhCE...

Earthed Summit 2025: Generation Restoration, Sep 18 2025. In-person. 10am–2am, EartH Hackney, London. "One inspiring day. One joyous night. Earthed Summit is a festival of talks, workshops, immersive sound experiences, live music..." £60-£115. www.earthed.co/earthed-summ...

Action alert from @biologicaldiversity.org Protect Wild Forests "Take action to protect the wild homes of America's most vulnerable species." act.biologicaldiversity.org/TMITB4gub0WL...

Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature - a 10-week online course with restoration biologist Jim Laurie, Sep 24–Dec 3, 2025. From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. $200. Free intro webinar Sep 10, 2025. bio4climate.org/course-offer...

Action alert from @rainforestrescue.bsky.social DRC: Europe’s green transition must not cost Congo's blood and forests "The violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also an environmental disaster." www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...

Plant Spirit Reiki - A free video event from @theshiftnetwork.bsky.social with author and teacher Fay Johnstone. Tue, Sep 9, 2025, 6:30pm CT. "Rediscover your sacred bond with the plant kingdom through Plant Spirit Reiki..." theshiftnetwork.com/Plant-Spirit...