The Plant Initiative
@theplantinitiative.bsky.social
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
Free online book talk: Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care, with author Solvejg Nitzke & moderator Catherin Persing. Jan 22, 2026, 7-8pm CET. "...draws on Solvejg Nitzke’s literary and cultural plant studies work on arboreal poetics..." eveeno.com/116407009
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Free online book talk: Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care, with author Solvejg Nitzke & moderator Catherin Persing. Jan 22, 2026, 7-8pm CET. "...draws on Solvejg Nitzke’s literary and cultural plant studies work on arboreal poetics..." eveeno.com/116407009
The Writing with Plants Project offers "free online 2-hour-long writing(with)plants sessions (since 2022), to foster community, imagination and creativity, all required for cohabitation with plants." Learn more here. www.instagram.com/writingwithp...
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Writing with Plants Project offers "free online 2-hour-long writing(with)plants sessions (since 2022), to foster community, imagination and creativity, all required for cohabitation with plants." Learn more here. www.instagram.com/writingwithp...
Authors Rights for Trees. Panel discussion, Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 8-10pm, Ghent, Belgium. With An Mertens, Maria Lucia Cruz-Correira, Séverine Dusollier, & Aelyn Van Diest. "Is it possible, as an artist, to grant copyright to the trees you collaborate with?" index.nadine.be/auteursrecht...
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Authors Rights for Trees. Panel discussion, Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 8-10pm, Ghent, Belgium. With An Mertens, Maria Lucia Cruz-Correira, Séverine Dusollier, & Aelyn Van Diest. "Is it possible, as an artist, to grant copyright to the trees you collaborate with?" index.nadine.be/auteursrecht...
Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
EcoMythology online winter symposium, Jan 17-18, 2026. From Nordic Summer University. "learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood or your life." 40/70/100€. Register by Jan 11, 2026. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/12/06/e...
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
EcoMythology online winter symposium, Jan 17-18, 2026. From Nordic Summer University. "learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood or your life." 40/70/100€. Register by Jan 11, 2026. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/12/06/e...
The article "Plant Humanities Pedagogy: teaching at the intersection of feminist economics and economic botany" from the journal Endeavour by Frederica Bowcutt & Savvina Chowdhury is available free, open-access until Jan 14, 2026. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA7AabuHw0bl
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The article "Plant Humanities Pedagogy: teaching at the intersection of feminist economics and economic botany" from the journal Endeavour by Frederica Bowcutt & Savvina Chowdhury is available free, open-access until Jan 14, 2026. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA7AabuHw0bl
The NYU More-Than-Human Life Program offers its Fellowship as "both a professional development opportunity...and as a space for creative incubation of actionable initiatives for improved relations with the more-than-human world." Apply by Feb 15, 2026. mothlife.org/moth-fellows...
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The NYU More-Than-Human Life Program offers its Fellowship as "both a professional development opportunity...and as a space for creative incubation of actionable initiatives for improved relations with the more-than-human world." Apply by Feb 15, 2026. mothlife.org/moth-fellows...
Indigenous Placekeeping through Tarweed, Free webinar Dec 3, 2025, 7pm PT. Join OSU anthropologist Molly Carney "who has studied Camas & Tarweed cultural practices in the Willamette Valley & worked closely with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Indigenous Placekeeping through Tarweed, Free webinar Dec 3, 2025, 7pm PT. Join OSU anthropologist Molly Carney "who has studied Camas & Tarweed cultural practices in the Willamette Valley & worked closely with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Call for US-based applicants for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon inviting artists, writers, musicians, and scholars to the ancient forests of the Blue River watershed. Apply by Jan 5, 2026. prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Call for US-based applicants for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon inviting artists, writers, musicians, and scholars to the ancient forests of the Blue River watershed. Apply by Jan 5, 2026. prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...
A special 5-part Elementals audio series of The Becoming Nature Podcast hosted by Carina Lyall has been created in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social "...about being human in a more-than-human world" www.carinalyall.com/en/en-becomi...
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A special 5-part Elementals audio series of The Becoming Nature Podcast hosted by Carina Lyall has been created in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social "...about being human in a more-than-human world" www.carinalyall.com/en/en-becomi...
Open access article in Spanish - Memories, plants and futures: the gestures of the gardener in the larch forests of southern Chile, by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya. "...analyzes the relationship between humans and forests through the lens of time..." revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/an...
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Open access article in Spanish - Memories, plants and futures: the gestures of the gardener in the larch forests of southern Chile, by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya. "...analyzes the relationship between humans and forests through the lens of time..." revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/an...
Open access article by Sydney Kale in Ekokritike Journal - Writing with Damiana: Attunement, Co-Becoming, and Co-Authorship With and Alongside Plant Thinking "This article is an autoethnographic account of a relationship between a human and a plant..." journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/a...
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Open access article by Sydney Kale in Ekokritike Journal - Writing with Damiana: Attunement, Co-Becoming, and Co-Authorship With and Alongside Plant Thinking "This article is an autoethnographic account of a relationship between a human and a plant..." journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/a...
I, Garden, // Garden as Palimpsest is a new book by phenomenologist, ecologist, and plant-lover Sydney Kale. "It attempts to ask the question, 'What is the essence of the experience of garden?' by asking Garden herself." sydneykale.com/i-garden
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I, Garden, // Garden as Palimpsest is a new book by phenomenologist, ecologist, and plant-lover Sydney Kale. "It attempts to ask the question, 'What is the essence of the experience of garden?' by asking Garden herself." sydneykale.com/i-garden
Open access article - Extra-Botanical Capacities: Plant Agency and Relational Extractivism in Contemporary Amazonia, by Karen Shiratori & Emanuele Fabiano in Philosophies Journal "...a reflection on plant agency from the perspective of Amazonian peoples" www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Open access article - Extra-Botanical Capacities: Plant Agency and Relational Extractivism in Contemporary Amazonia, by Karen Shiratori & Emanuele Fabiano in Philosophies Journal "...a reflection on plant agency from the perspective of Amazonian peoples" www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
The Plant Initiative's Nov 2025 free monthly e-newsletter lists many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Access the issue at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat... Subscribe at plantinitiative.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Plant Initiative's Nov 2025 free monthly e-newsletter lists many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Access the issue at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat... Subscribe at plantinitiative.org
Proposals are invited to present at the Poetry’s Environments conference to be held Jun 9-11, 2026 in Leeds, UK. For international poets, critics, translators, activists, and anyone who is involved in poetry and its environments. Dec 5, 2025 deadline. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Proposals are invited to present at the Poetry’s Environments conference to be held Jun 9-11, 2026 in Leeds, UK. For international poets, critics, translators, activists, and anyone who is involved in poetry and its environments. Dec 5, 2025 deadline. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
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
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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
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.
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earthliteracies.org/betsey-crawf...
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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...
earthliteracies.org/betsey-crawf...
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-...
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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-...
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/...
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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/...
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...
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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...
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.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
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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...
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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...
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...
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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/
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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/