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The Plant Initiative
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The Plant Initiative is a nonprofit organization that works to increase respect and appreciation for plants through public education, building understanding, and collaborative partnerships. Web site: www.plantinitiative.org
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 4d
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 · 8d
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 · 11d
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 · 11d
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 · 12d
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 · 13d
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 · 13d
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 · 18d
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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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 18d
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
Infinite Wisdom: Interview with Dr. Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander 🌱
YouTube video by Spread Infinite Hope
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 19d
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
Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations - A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi
YouTube video by The Plant Initiative
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 20d
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...
Defend the forests, waters, and wildlife of Eastern Oregon - Oregon Wild
Take action to stand up for 2 million acres of Oregon's Roadless Areas now under threat from the Trump administration.
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 20d
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"
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Tell Home Depot: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides
Home Depot should do everything possible to support bee recovery.
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 22d
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
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
"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."
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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...
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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-...
2025 Inland Northwest Permaculture Convergence
The 15th Annual Inland Northwest Permaculture Convergence will be September 19th - 21st, 2025 at Uhuru Community in Rice, WA.  Register Now
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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/
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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...
Recognising the crime of ecocide to protect nature - International Union for the Conservation of Nature - Motion 061 — Stop Ecocide International
25th September, 07.00 BST
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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...
Kinship: Being Together - Online Course | advaya.life | advaya
Explore belonging, relationships, and community in our journey of being together. Join us to explore more.
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 23d
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...
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 26d
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
900+ year old Oak has regrown many times. It says:"I will regrow again and teach others!"
YouTube video by Partner With Nature
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 26d
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-...
Stop destroying our coast!
Tenerife does not need more theme parks and greenwashing projects; it needs to protect its natural wealth. Sign and join us to stop the Underwater Garden!
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 26d
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...
Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History — or About to Become History? • The Revelator
Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
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