The Plant Initiative

06/14/2026

Rooted Relations: Tʼuyʼtʼtanat-Cease Wyss and Jaz Whitford in conversation with Giovanni Aloi. From The Plant Initiative, Aug 20, 2026, 12-1pm CT. Free online conversation with 2 Indigenous artists whose work foregrounds plants. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rooted-relations-tuyttanat-cease-wyss-and-jaz-whitford-tickets-1991705638179

06/12/2026

Episode 9 of Madii's Messages podcast - TREES: The Forest Speaks "In this episode, you will hear from a forest as it telepathically tells Madii [Kasem] and her students why one of its trees fell and injured a lumberjack."

Trees can communicate with us when we have an open heart. In this episode, you will hear from a forest as it telepathically tells Madii and her students why one of its trees fell and injured a lumberj

06/12/2026

The Green Heart Biennale, in Gouda, Netherlands, May 30-Jun 21, 2026 is "a new festival dedicated to art and design for ecological regeneration, bringing together artists, designers, researchers, and citizen initiatives to reflect on how we can restore and reimagine our shared living environments for all forms of life." https://groenehartbiennale.nl/en/home-en/

06/12/2026

Summer Solstice Plant Circle from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Plant Baby Plant movement: Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 4pm ET, with best selling author Margaret Renkl + others. Video will be available live on their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/ and the recording on demand afterward.

06/12/2026

Article from Space Daily - Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff..."

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from the Sahara Desert by trade winds, lifted i...

06/12/2026

Action alert from the Center for Biological Diversity - Don’t Let Avocados Annihilate Monarchs " Now U.S. grocery stores must adopt corporate policies to stop deforestation in their avocado supply chains by requiring all suppliers to use the PFA program."

To meet skyrocketing U.S. demand, avocado plantations have been gobbling up Mexican forests where imperiled monarch butterflies spend the winter. Join us in urging top U.S. grocery stores to protect monarchs and forests by requiring their avocado suppliers to use the Pro-Forest Agriculture program.

06/12/2026

2026 Northeast Miniforest Summit - Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method. Jul 15-23, 2026. [Virtual Summit Jul 22-23. Virtual film screening Jul 15. In-person bus tour in MA Jul 18.] Costs vary. From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-northeast-miniforest-summit-registration-1990808570024

06/12/2026

Call for Abstracts for Southern African Society for Environmental Philosophy (SASEP) 3rd Annual Conference, Aug 26-28, 2026 to be held at the North-West University Potchefstroom Campus. Deadline Jun 15, 2026. https://www.sasep.africa/call-for-abstracts-sasep-2026/

06/12/2026

From Studio to Seed: Developing your creative practice as a form of Land Stewardship. 6 month live online series hosted by Evgenia Emets. Starts Jul 15, 2026. £240. "designed as a shared field of practice rather than a traditional course" https://landartcollective.com/seed

06/11/2026

Call for article submissions from the Journal of the History of Biology for a special Topical Collection on Histories, Cultures, and Practices of the Botanical Sciences. https://link.springer.com/collections/jhbgcichhe