Welcome everybody! This is the first podcast episode of Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.

Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a new-born collaborative initiative that seeks to generate transdisciplinary conversations and education bridging research and action on plant lives and stories, and pursuing respectful relationships with plant beings by advancing an ethics of care.

We believe that the current challenges of the Anthropocene offer a compelling and urgent opportunity to advance a movement for thinking and engaging differently with plants as well as for the need of new and creative allyship and exchange between researchers, practitioners, educators, and activists. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is built on a foundation that is respectful of Indigenous and local botanical knowledges, contemporary scientific discoveries, and world philosophies and literatures.

It has started as a collaboration between the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers, The Plant Initiative, the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network, and the Eternal Forest project.

So, let us introduce the core group of our network.

As it emerges in our conversation, what we seek to do is to advance an environmental education that engages with plants and the Vegetal Turn on multiple levels, and that embraces different disciplines, approaches, practices and plant knowledges. The network will create and offer tools, content, and methods for through books, conferences, videos, podcasts, and other educational materials, both online and in person.

We support generative ways to cultivate educational pathways through art, stories, songs, ceremonies, scientific discoveries, individual experiences and collaborative actions. We invite connections with other networks, communities, researchers and practitioners concerned with plants and ethical plant-human relationships to carry out multidisciplinary projects. Such a “polyculture of ideas” will bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous science, literature, philosophy, poetry, art, anthropology, education, botany, and environmental activism.

You are warmly welcome to join us for advancing research, education and advocacy of respectful relationships with plants!

For more information on the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, visit our developing web page hosted by the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers (https://thinkingintheworld.com/), or write to us at: networkingwithplants@gmail.com

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

The next podcast episode will start with in-depth interviews of our core group members. Stay tuned!

Introduction Podcast Networking With Plants In The Anthropocene Introduction

In this episode of Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, Kate Brelje interviews Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence about their new book Planta Sapiens. Paco Calvo is a philosopher and director of the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT) at the University of Murcia (for more information: www.um.es/web/minimal-intelligence-lab ). Natalie Lawrence is an author and illustrator (for more information: https://www.nataliejlawrence.com/). We hope you enjoy this engaging and delightful conversation about the book and its authors! For more information about Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, visit our website at https://networkingwithplants.org/ or email us at  networkingwithplants@gmail.com.

For more information about purchasing a copy of Planta Sapiens, check out  https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/paco-calvo/planta-sapiens/9780349128450/ for UK listeners or  https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881080 for listeners in the US.

Episode 1 Kate Brelje interviews Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence

In this episode of Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, Kate Brelje interviews Paul Moss about his work with plants. Paul is the co-founder of the Plant Initiative and an active participant of Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene (the collaboration responsible for this podcast.) For more information on Paul's work at the Plant Initiative, visit https://plantinitiative.org/. 

For more information about Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, visit our website at networkingwithplants.org/or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com

Episode 2 Kate Brelje interviews Paul Moss

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Prudence Gibson about her new book The Plant Thieves. For more information about Gibson's Herbarium Tales project, visit https://theherbariumtales.org/ . To learn more about The Plant Thieves, visit https://unsw.press/books/the-plant-thieves/ . 

If you are interested in our connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website Networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Stay tuned for more lovely chats with plant people!

Episode 3 Kate Brelje interviews Prudence Gibson

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews artist and poet Evgenia Emets about her vegetal work. For more information about Emet's Eternal Forest, visit https://eternalforest.earth/ . To learn more about her book Eternal Forest, visit https://eternalforest.earth/index.php/books/. Follow Evgenia Emets (@evgenia_emets) and Eternal Forest (@eternalforestglobal) on Instagram for project updates.

If you are interested in our connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Stay tuned for more lovely chats with plant people!

Episode 4 Kate Brelje interviews Evgenia Emets

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews multi-talented artist and consultant Joe Culhane. For more information about Joe's work, check out https://joeculhane.iorb.earth/. Also see the Dart Community Apothecary in Devon, England, of which Joe is a founding member, on Instagram. Joe will be presenting at the SER 10th World Conference in Darwin, Australia. Learn more here: https://ser2023.org/.

If you are interested in our connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 7 Kate Brelje Interviews Joe Culhane

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews poet and interdisciplinary scholar Professor Megan Kaminski about her work with plants. If you are interested in Kaminski's work, you can find it on her website https://www.megankaminski.com/. For more information on Quietly Between, you can find it here: https://aviewingspace.com/quietly-between. If you are interested in the Prairie Divination Deck, you can find more information here: https://www.prairiedivination.com/. You can also follow Kaminski on social media with the handle @mllemegan. 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 16 Kate Brelje interviews Megan Kaminski

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Lucas Mertehikian about his work with plants. If you are interested in Mertehikian's work, you can find it on his website, https://lucasmertehikian.com/home/. Also, for more information about the institutions he has recently worked for and is currently working for, check out Dumbarton Oaks (https://www.doaks.org/) and the New York Botanical Garden (https://www.nybg.org/). Especially check out the Dumbarton Oaks page on the Plant Humanities Initiative (https://www.doaks.org/research/mellon-initiatives/plant-humanities-initiative), the Plant Humanities Lab (https://lab.plant-humanities.org/), and NYBG's Humanities Institute (https://www.nybg.org/learn/humanities-institute/).

You can also find the article and books we talked about by following these links: Rob Nixon's "The Less Selfish Gene" (https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/13/2/348/235001/The-Less-Selfish-GeneForest-Altruism-Neoliberalism), Maura Flannery's In the Herbarium (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247916/in-the-herbarium/) and Prue Gibson's The Plant Thieves (https://unsw.press/books/the-plant-thieves/). Flannery will be on a forthcoming episode of the podcast to talk about In the Herbarium and Prue has joined us to discuss The Plant Thieves on Episode 3.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 18 Kate Brelje Interviews Lucas Mertehikian

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Patrícia Vieira about her project EcoAmazonia. In addition to plants in the Amazon region, they discuss olive trees. If you are interested in Vieira's work, you can find it on her website, https://www.patriciavieira.net/. Also, for more information about her current work in the EcoAmazonia project here: https://eco.ces.uc.pt/en/home-english/. Her co-edited volume that includes her chapter on olive trees is The Mind of Plants (2021) and more information about this project can be found here: https://www.themindofplants.com/. Additionally, check out the Eco Expo art exhibit here:  https://ecoexpo.ces.uc.pt/en/home-english/. And remember to keep an eye out for her forthcoming monograph Zoophytography. 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 19 Kate Brelje interviews Patrícia Vieira

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Catriona Sandilands about her work with feminist critical plant studies and "loving the difficult" in invasive plant management. Particular plants covered include roses, nettle, mulberry trees, and scotch broom. If you are interested in Sandilands' work, you can find it on her website, https://www.catesandilands.ca/. Also, for more information about her work referenced in this episode, you can find "Plant/s Matter" here (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2021.1983433), "Mulberry Intimacies" here (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003023319-3/mulberry-intimacies-sweetness-kinship-catriona-sandilands), and "Loving the Difficult" here (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781478022664-003/html?lang=en). Additionally, feel free to check out her co-edited volume of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, Environment "Gardening the Anthropocene" (2023).

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com.

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 20 Kate Brelje Interviews Catriona Sandilands

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Maura Flannery (emerita from St. John's University and current research associate at the A.C. Moore Herbarium of the University of South Carolina) about her recent book, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (Yale University Press, 2023). We discuss how to start your own herbaria, how to get engaged in different initiatives connected to plant collecting, and talked about Carolus Clusius. If you are interested in Flannery's work, you can find her incredible blog, Herbarium World, at https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/author/flannerm/. 
An additional text mentioned include Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium by Linda Lipsen.
If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .
The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is
Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 22 Kate Brelje interviews Maura Flannery

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Yogi Hendlin about his forthcoming edited volume, Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants (Brill, 2024). We discuss cyanobacteria, the good life for algae, and living relationally in biotic communities. If you are interested in Hendlin's work, you can find more information on his website: https://yogihendlin.com/. Also check out the journal Biosemiotics (Springer) where he is chief editor.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 23 Kate Brelje interviews Yogi Hendlin

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Nayeli Urquiza Haas about her interdisciplinary work with criminal law, regulation of traditional plant medicines, and drug policy. Specific plants covered include opium and marijuana.If you want to find out more about Urquiza's work, you can find her academia.edu profile here: https://lancaster.academia.edu/NayeliUrquizaHaas or follow her on Twitter with her handle @UrquizaNayeli. 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 27 Kate Brelje interviews Nayeli Urquiza Haas

In this episode, Kate interviews Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White about their fantastic project Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas. Specific plants covered include yage, ayahuasca, sage, and too many more to name! If you want to find out more about their work, you can find the project here: https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/ and it is available in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German.

Please email us for a complete list of the sources mentioned in the interview (networkingwithplants@gmail.com). Due to space allowances, we aren't able to list them all here.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 29: Kate Brelje interviews Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White

In this episode, Kate discusses the Monsoon School with Dr. Deepta Sateesh. For more information about the Monsoon School, check out this news article (https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1195311) or follow the QR code on the image!

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Episode 32 The Monsoon School with Dr. Deepta Sateesh

In this episode, Kate and Leah Rampy discuss her new book, Earth & Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos. A few of the topics in this rich chat include weaving, oak trees, ecotones, ecological grief, and deepening our relationships with other living beings. To learn more about Leah, check out her website here: https://www.leahmoranrampy.com/. To learn more about Earth & Soul, follow this link: https://www.leahmoranrampy.com/books.html.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 33 Kate Brelje interviews Leah Rampy

In this episode, Heidi Kenyon and Henry Wolff discuss more-than-human agency, collaborating with plants, and their magnificent artistic process. Heidi Kenyon and Henry Wolff are visual artists based in Tarntanya/Adelaide, South Australia whose work spans disciplines including installation, photography, moving image, sound and performance. In their collaborative work the artists explore shared interests in contemporary rituals, methodologies of care, and the entangled inseparability of humans from nature through feminist, posthuman and queer lenses. In October 2025 the artists will present an immersive, site-responsive work supported by City of Adelaide and Nature Festival South Australia reimagining how care, kinship, and flow might reshape our entanglements with urban places. (https://www.naturefestival.org.au/). 

To learn more about their work, you can find Heidi Kenyon's work at https://heidikenyon.com/ and Henry Wolff's work at https://henrywolff.com/. You can also follow their work on Instagram by Heidi's handle @heidikenyon.art and Henry's handle @henry___wolff.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 37 Kate Brelje Interviews Heidi Kenyon and Henry Wolff

In this episode, editors Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, and Solvejg Nitzke share insights from their new book, Plant Poetics. Highlighting the multiple facets of poetics, the discussion ranges plant being, plant poesis, and literature from a wide range of human languages (with English translations). You can find a copy on Brill's website (https://brill.com/display/title/71072?srsltid=AfmBOoojnpPuM2kEQ-A0djzTJ_08elbLDOYWLI8h2ukCJuEcDeNZDUi_) or look for one at your local library. If your institution doesn't have a copy yet, make sure to request one for your community!

Connect with the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network (https://sites.arizona.edu/plants/bibliography/) to meet other researchers in Plant Studies as well as access an incredible bibliography of plant studies resources. Check out other work by the editors, including Joela Jacobs' Animal, Vegetal, Marginal (https://iupress.org/9780253071989/animal-vegetal-marginal/), Isabel Kranz's "The Language of Flowers in Botany and Popular Culture" (https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/the-language-of-flowers-in-botany-and-popular-culture) , and Solvejg Nitzke's Making Kin with Trees (https://link.springer.com/book/9783031968006). 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Episode 38 Plant Poetics with Joela Jacobs, Solvejg Nitzke, and Isabel Kranz

In this episode, Dr. Laura Pustarfi and Dr. David Macauley introduce their new book, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality (SUNY Press 2025). https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Wisdom-of-Trees

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 39 The Wisdom of Trees with Laura Pustarfi and David Macauley

In this episode, Dr. Gutierrez introduces her new book, Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines. The discussion ranges from the interplay between colonial science and indigenous ways of knowing to the plants used in textile arts. To get your copy of the text, go to https://www.dukeupress.edu/unmaking-botany.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Episode 40 Unmaking Botany with Dr. Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

In this episode, Elspeth Hay introduces her new book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. We discuss cultural challenges and possibilities of connecting forests with food, developing right relationships with plants, and what it means to connect new plant learning with our families. To get your copy of the text, go to https://newsociety.com/book/feed-us-with-trees/?srsltid=AfmBOorjnNM7Me6AeFsTqyE6DWR3n-P8m1a2VaoQhFmnvhPDkV22oph8. To follow more of Hay's work with plants, check out her project with the local Cape Cod NPR station, CAI, The Local Food Report here: https://www.capeandislands.org/podcast/the-local-food-report. 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 41 Feed Us with Trees with Elspeth Hay

In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews John C. Ryan about his work with plants. To follow more of Ryan's work, check out his website: https://www.johncharlesryan.com/. 

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 42 Kate Brelje Interviews John C. Ryan

In this episode, Kate Brelje talks with Dani Lamorte about their new book, Nobody's Psychic, and their newsletter Groundcherry. You can pre-order Nobody's Psychic here: https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781985902817/nobodys-psychic/. Groundcherry is available here: https://groundcherry.substack.com. To follow more of Lamorte's work, check out their website (https://danilamorte.com/) or their IG (@zygo.phyll.aceae).

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our new editor Mursal Fahimi.

Also, special thanks to our steering member Joe Culhane for our Network Logo.

Episode 43 Dani Lamorte's Nobody's Psychic and Groundcherry

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.co.uk/bookshop/product/To-Hear-the-Trees-Speak-by-Olivia-Sprinkel/9781835011539?srsltid=AfmBOoq5i_tul33zUOqz3aLq54tt2qp3qolj3j-6yBqD2SvX3yuyLAUX. To follow more of Sprinkel's work, check out her website (https://www.oliviasprinkel.com/) or her IG (@oliviasprinkel). Also, visit and subscribe to her substack here: https://oliviasprinkel.substack.com/.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Mursal Fahimi.

Episode 44 Olivia Sprinkel's To Hear The Trees Speak

In this episode, Jon Pitt returns to the podcast to share his new book, Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan. You can find your open access copy of Botanical Imagination here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780950/botanical-imagination/#bookTabs=1. Check out the Plant Perspectives Journal here: https://whpress.co.uk/PP.html.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Noah Trapp.

Episode 45 Jon Pitt's Botanical Imagination

In this episode, Joela Jacobs interviews Kate Brelje about her work with plants. You can learn more about her work in philosophy on her website: https://katebrelje.wordpress.com/.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Mursal Fahimi.

Also, special thanks to steering committee member and graphic artist Joe Culhane for the podcast image.

Episode 46 Joela Jacobs interviews Kate Brelje

In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Felipe S. Molina (Yoeme) and David Delgado Shorter about their relationships with plants. You can learn more about the Archive of Healing here: https://archiveofhealing.com/. Also, check out Molina and Shorter's chapter "'The Living Beautiful Part of Our World': The Yoeme Sea Ania (Flower World)" in Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner available here: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/flower-worlds .

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Noah Trapp for producing this episode and to our steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the image.

Episode 47 Felipe S. Molina and David Delgado Shorter

In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Beth Norcross and Leah Rampy about their new book, Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees. You can find a copy for yourself or find the information to put in a request at your local institutions (university, library, etc.) to get a copy here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889832133/Discovering-the-Spiritual-Wisdom-of-Trees. To follow Beth's work, check out her website here: bethnorcross.com. To follow Leah's work, check out her website here: leahmoranrampy.com. Also, you can follow Leah's writing at her substack (leahrampy.substack.com) and learn more about the Center for Spirituality in Nature, founded by Beth, here: centerforspiritualityinnature.org.
If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .
The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is
Special thanks to our editor Mursal Fahimi for producing this episode.

Episode 48 Beth Norcross and Leah Rampy's Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees

In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Melissa Parks and Mariko Thomas about their new book, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-human Relationships in New Mexico. You can find a copy for yourself or find the information to put in a request at your local institutions (university, library, etc.) to get a copy here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/storying-plant-communication-9781666926521/.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Noah Trapp for producing this episode.

Episode 49 Melissa Parks and Mariko Thomas' Storying Plant Communication

In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Solvejg Nitzke about her new book, Making Kin with Trees: A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care. You can find a copy for yourself or find the information to put in a request at your local institutions (university, library, etc.) to get a copy here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-96801-3.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website https://thinkingintheworld.com/projects/networking-with-plants-in-the-anthropocene/ or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to our editor Mursal Fahimi for producing this episode.

Episode 50 Solvejg Nitzke's Making Kin with Trees

The evolution of plants has been so successful that today they account for the majority of living biomass on Earth. Humans, along with all other animals, exist thanks to plants, and we can continue to exist only in relationship to them. Plants are all around us, but we tend to overlook their importance in our everyday lives. Plants are essential not only to every breath we take, but also to our food, medicine, shelter, and clothing. Still, most of us walk through life and ‘nature’ without recognizing plants as the beings shaping the planet.

The Vegetal Turn
Given the magnitude of challenges facing the Earth, recent years have seen a renewed and growing attention to plant life across the humanities as well as in the social and natural sciences. This Vegetal Turn is generating transdisciplinary conversations within and beyond academia that seek to create awareness of plant lives and stories and that pursue respectful relationships with plant beings by advancing an ethics of care. How can we better understand the role and agency of plants in shaping on Earth? What does respect mean when engaging with a forest, a field, an orchard, or a potted plant? How do we advance a transition from thinking to acting, from research to practice, in our connection with plants?

What actions are now needed?
We believe that the current challenges of the Anthropocene offer a compelling and urgent opportunity to advance a movement for thinking and engaging differently with plants as well as for increased allyship and exchange between researchers, practitioners, educators, and activists. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a newly created network for those involved in research, education, and advocacy for human-plant relationships of care and reciprocity, and a collaboration between the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers, The Plant Initiative, the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network, the Eternal Forest project, and other groups. We invite connections with additional existing and incipient networks and communities concerned with plants and ethical plant-human relationships to carry out multidisciplinary projects. Such a “polyculture of ideas” will bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous science, literature, philosophy, poetry, art, anthropology, education, botany, and environmental activism.

What do we do?
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene aims to create and offer tools, content, and methods for transdisciplinary and transgenerational environmental education engaging with the Vegetal Turn that isinternational but locally grounded. The network collaborates to advance outreach and education for the general public through books, conferences, videos, podcasts, and other educational materials, both online and in person. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is built on a foundation that is respectful of Indigenous and local botanical knowledges, contemporary scientific discoveries, and world philosophies and literatures. We support generative ways to cultivate educational pathways through art, stories, songs, ceremonies, and individual experiences as well as opportunities for collaborative action.

We welcome your support for the goals of better understanding plants and aligning human behavior with plants in more ethical and respectful ways. For more information or to join in this initiative, please contact us: networkingwithplants@gmail.com

Who We Are
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene’s Steering Committee:

Alice McSherry

Anna Perdibon

Deepta Sateesh

Evgenia Emets

Joela Jacobs

Kate Brelje

Marcello Di Paola

Paul Moss
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