Episode of the Brainforest Café podcast: Dennis McKenna talks with Kat Maier, a registered herbalist and physician's assistant. "...a warm, rigorous conversation about healing, reciprocity, and our estrangement from nature." youtu.be/dNUqHI9_l5s

Action alert from @Earthworks Defend This California Desert From Rushed Gold Mining "Tell the planning commission in California’s Imperial County why they should require a new environmental review for the Rainbow East gold exploration project." act.earthworks.org/page/1037…

Action alert from @EnviroAction Tell Ace Hardware: Don’t log the boreal forest "The North American boreal is the largest remaining intact forest in the world..." environmental-action.org/tak…

Action alert from @amazonwatch Build Responses to Amazon Crime With Indigenous Peoples, Not Without Them. "Organized crime is devastating Indigenous territories across the Amazon. Illegal mining, logging, and drug trafficking threaten forests, rivers, and communities..." amazonwatch.org/take-action/…

Interesting article from @QuantaMagazine by Asher Elbein about how plants grow towards light "Plants are not innately passive - seedlings actively orient themselves toward light, as shown in this time-lapse video, sped up 2,700 times." quantamagazine.org/plants-fi…

The Nature Institute is offering an online course "Thinking Like a Plant" Feb-Apr 2027 as part of the Cultivating an Experiential Understanding of Self and World series. This course works through Craig Holdrege's "Thinking Like a Plant." $140-$420. natureinstitute.org/events

The Plant Initiative's Oct 2026 monthly e-newsletter contains many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Access this issue directly at mailchi.mp/plantinitiative/e… or subscribe (free) to receive future issues at plantinitiative.org/

"Cocreating with a living intelligent Earth" is a 12-week live online learning community starting Nov 18, 2026 from Kincentric Leadership. "a journey into kincentric ways of sensing, relating and organising, lived through your own life and the more-than-human communities you are part of." £200-£900 sliding scale, scholarships available. kincentricleadership.org/onl…

Video of conversation between Michael Pollan & Andrew Huberman- What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness. "Pollan offers a hopeful perspective on how our relationship with plants and animals – including other humans, can lead us to a healthier, and far richer experience of life." tinyurl.com/bdhve4ua

In Orion Magazine's @Orion_Magazine Autumn 2026 issue, there are several articles related to plants or the human-connection, some of which you can access online for free, such as on carnivorous plants and bitter melon. orionmagazine.org/issue/autu…

PDF for preorder for Langscape magazine, Vol. 15, from Terralingua "a beautifully designed, 160-page, ad-free magazine that's perfect for people who read, teach, or collect stories about biocultural diversity" terralingua.org/tlshop/langs…

Urban Tree Festival, Sat, Oct 24, 2026. In-person in Greenwich, UK. Free. "a day that welcomes everybody to explore the many ways trees connect us to place, memory, well-being, creativity and community." urbantreefestival.org/

Action alert from @EnviroAction Tell Walmart: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides "Native bee populations are in steep decline." environmental-action.org/tak…

Origin: A Synchronized Planetary Gathering. October 17, 2026. Events worldwide. "Join the world's largest synchronized gathering of ceremony, music and regenerative action." "helping to seed the dream of a socio-ecological planetary renaissance, from doom to bloom" ourorigin.earth/

Video recording in the In Convivium series of a conversation between Pete Yeo and celebrated biologist and author, David George Haskell talking about Haskell's new book, How Flowers Made Our World - The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries . tinyurl.com/h4bvsv37