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The Ecological Citizen is an independent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access journal that provides a forum for inspiring and mobilizing discussion with an Earth-centred perspective.
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🦋 🔎 Defenders of #Earth, our new issue, which partially focuses on #NaturalHistory, is live! Download the full issue or individual (open access) pieces here:
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#Ecocentrism #InterspeciesHealing #RiversInCrisis #OwlConservation #RespectReptiles #Ecofiction
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#Ecocentrism #InterspeciesHealing #RiversInCrisis #OwlConservation #RespectReptiles #Ecofiction
👣 First pieces from 9.1 — focusing on #indigeneity — are out. Exploring #badgers, #meat ethics, #raptors, the bonds between humans, nonhumans, & place, plus #conservation politics, these essays highlight #ecocentric ways of being. Incl. #JaneGoodall tribute. 🐾
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
👣 First pieces from 9.1 — focusing on #indigeneity — are out. Exploring #badgers, #meat ethics, #raptors, the bonds between humans, nonhumans, & place, plus #conservation politics, these essays highlight #ecocentric ways of being. Incl. #JaneGoodall tribute. 🐾
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🦅 After decades of decline, Portugal’s cinereous #vultures are returning. Breeding pairs have more than doubled since 2022 thanks to the LIFE Aegypius Return project.
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Reviving Portugal’s vultures [Southern Europe]
Milene Matos writes: “The mighty cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a true giant of the skies. It is the largest Old World vulture and one of the heaviest birds of prey in the world, wi…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🦅 After decades of decline, Portugal’s cinereous #vultures are returning. Breeding pairs have more than doubled since 2022 thanks to the LIFE Aegypius Return project.
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#rewilding
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#rewilding
🐒 Today, we mark the passing of #JaneGoodall — not just an eminent primatologist, but a voice for all life. As an early signatory to the Statement of Ecocentrism, she stood for nature’s intrinsic value, beyond its use to humans. 💚
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October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🐒 Today, we mark the passing of #JaneGoodall — not just an eminent primatologist, but a voice for all life. As an early signatory to the Statement of Ecocentrism, she stood for nature’s intrinsic value, beyond its use to humans. 💚
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We're extending the deadline for Feral Lines submissions to the 14th October (originally 30th Sep)!
Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories.
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Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We're extending the deadline for Feral Lines submissions to the 14th October (originally 30th Sep)!
Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories.
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories.
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🗣️ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories
🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩🔬
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#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction
🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩🔬
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#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction
Preservation - An Ecocentric Story
YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen
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September 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🗣️ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories
🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩🔬
youtube.com/watch?v=Rfoc...
#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction
🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩🔬
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#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction
🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." 🫂
#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope
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#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope
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Stories from the Field: an interview with May and Yasmine (Global Rewilding Alliance)
We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." 🫂
#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope
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@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@scotrewilding.bsky.social
@rewilding.org
#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope
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@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@scotrewilding.bsky.social
@rewilding.org
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Today there was a good reminder on LinkedIn of @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social mission to promote econentrism www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v01n1-0...
August 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Today there was a good reminder on LinkedIn of @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social mission to promote econentrism www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v01n1-0...
🌿 🌳 Cabilla farm, owned by the Hanbury-Tenison family, holds a rare #TemperateRainforest. Through careful restoration and help from wild nature, they’re nurturing this rare woodland. @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewilding.org #rewilding #rewildinghope
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Rewilding a temperate rainforest [Northern Europe]
Isabella Clarke writes: “‘We have nine different species of bat here,’ says Merlin Hanbury-Tenison as we walk through the wooded valley on his family farm in Cornwall. ‘Incl…
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August 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🌿 🌳 Cabilla farm, owned by the Hanbury-Tenison family, holds a rare #TemperateRainforest. Through careful restoration and help from wild nature, they’re nurturing this rare woodland. @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewilding.org #rewilding #rewildinghope
rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/08/04/r...
rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/08/04/r...
🐺 🏞️ The deadline for submissions to Feral Lines is approaching fast!
We haven’t received as many submissions as we hoped yet, but there’s still time to help us bring TEC's first fiction collection to life. #Ecofiction #Ecolit #FlashFiction #Rewilding
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We haven’t received as many submissions as we hoped yet, but there’s still time to help us bring TEC's first fiction collection to life. #Ecofiction #Ecolit #FlashFiction #Rewilding
www.ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
August 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🐺 🏞️ The deadline for submissions to Feral Lines is approaching fast!
We haven’t received as many submissions as we hoped yet, but there’s still time to help us bring TEC's first fiction collection to life. #Ecofiction #Ecolit #FlashFiction #Rewilding
www.ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
We haven’t received as many submissions as we hoped yet, but there’s still time to help us bring TEC's first fiction collection to life. #Ecofiction #Ecolit #FlashFiction #Rewilding
www.ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🐢 After decades of effort, Hermann’s #tortoises are returning to #Catalonia — proof that with patience, even long-lost species can return. #HermannsTortoise @rewilding.org #Rewilding #RewildingHope #GenerationRestoration
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Helping Catalonia’s only tortoise [Southern Europe]
Joe Gray writes: “Northern Spain is home to a number of species of animal whose presence might, to the uninformed, come as something of a surprise. Here, across the upper band of the Iberian …
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July 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🐢 After decades of effort, Hermann’s #tortoises are returning to #Catalonia — proof that with patience, even long-lost species can return. #HermannsTortoise @rewilding.org #Rewilding #RewildingHope #GenerationRestoration
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🌍 ⚖️ Defenders of #Earth, Vol 8 No 2 is live!
This issue opens with a moving tribute to co-founder Ian Whyte.
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#DoLeastHarm #EcologicalTax #Rewilding #CompassionateConservation #EcoLit #EcologicalAttention #BarredOwls #Solarpunk #Sustainability
This issue opens with a moving tribute to co-founder Ian Whyte.
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#DoLeastHarm #EcologicalTax #Rewilding #CompassionateConservation #EcoLit #EcologicalAttention #BarredOwls #Solarpunk #Sustainability
July 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🌍 ⚖️ Defenders of #Earth, Vol 8 No 2 is live!
This issue opens with a moving tribute to co-founder Ian Whyte.
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#DoLeastHarm #EcologicalTax #Rewilding #CompassionateConservation #EcoLit #EcologicalAttention #BarredOwls #Solarpunk #Sustainability
This issue opens with a moving tribute to co-founder Ian Whyte.
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#DoLeastHarm #EcologicalTax #Rewilding #CompassionateConservation #EcoLit #EcologicalAttention #BarredOwls #Solarpunk #Sustainability
🙏 🌎 Critiquing #humansupremacy isn’t #misanthropy.
Eileen's new #EarthTongues essay argues that a god-complex — casting humans as rulers over life — drives ecological ruin through profanation and nihilation. #TrueHumanity begins by renouncing dominion.
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Eileen's new #EarthTongues essay argues that a god-complex — casting humans as rulers over life — drives ecological ruin through profanation and nihilation. #TrueHumanity begins by renouncing dominion.
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Regarding misanthropy
Is human nature destructive? Or have human beings indoctrinated themselves into a belief system that is destructive? The quandary is worth pursuing even if it yields no conclusive answer.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🙏 🌎 Critiquing #humansupremacy isn’t #misanthropy.
Eileen's new #EarthTongues essay argues that a god-complex — casting humans as rulers over life — drives ecological ruin through profanation and nihilation. #TrueHumanity begins by renouncing dominion.
blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/07/11/r...
Eileen's new #EarthTongues essay argues that a god-complex — casting humans as rulers over life — drives ecological ruin through profanation and nihilation. #TrueHumanity begins by renouncing dominion.
blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/07/11/r...
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Today marks #WorldPopulationDay, a day that reminds us of the urgent need to scale back the devastating impact of our growing numbers on the planet.
We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.
We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.
July 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today marks #WorldPopulationDay, a day that reminds us of the urgent need to scale back the devastating impact of our growing numbers on the planet.
We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.
We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.
We believe that #AI is energy-intensive, ecologically destructive, anthropocentric in purpose, represents a false solution to ecological problems, and causes alienation in human-nature relationships.
That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues.
Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi
That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues.
Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi
July 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We believe that #AI is energy-intensive, ecologically destructive, anthropocentric in purpose, represents a false solution to ecological problems, and causes alienation in human-nature relationships.
That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues.
Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi
That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues.
Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi
🌱 Population Balance (@popnbalance.bsky.social) is one of the few voices saying it plainly: a smaller human footprint is the only path to lasting ecological balance. #Pronatalism #EcologicalJustice #Childfree
Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:
Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:
Joe, alongside his partner, has built a purposeful #childfree life rooted in love for nonhumans — founding and managing @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social and working to protect biodiversity, specifically insects, in his local habitat.
Listen to Joe's story!
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Listen to Joe's story!
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July 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🌱 Population Balance (@popnbalance.bsky.social) is one of the few voices saying it plainly: a smaller human footprint is the only path to lasting ecological balance. #Pronatalism #EcologicalJustice #Childfree
Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:
Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:
🌱 📗 🤝 We’re thrilled to partner with the Elite Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE). Their goal is to explore how education shapes citizens who are able to imagine futures and create change rather than simply knowing facts.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
🌱 📗 🤝 We’re thrilled to partner with the Elite Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE). Their goal is to explore how education shapes citizens who are able to imagine futures and create change rather than simply knowing facts.
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
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🦉 William Lynn condemns the culling of 500k #BarredOwls to 'save' #SpottedOwls as a moral atrocity. The plan is unscientific, ethically bankrupt, and fails to address root causes like #HabitatLoss and #Climate change.
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June 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🦉 William Lynn condemns the culling of 500k #BarredOwls to 'save' #SpottedOwls as a moral atrocity. The plan is unscientific, ethically bankrupt, and fails to address root causes like #HabitatLoss and #Climate change.
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Image credit: Mdf (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Image credit: Mdf (CC BY-SA 3.0)
🐺 Feral Lines — a flash fiction call from The Ecological Citizen — seeks *plot-driven* stories of nature’s resurgence, human retreat, and Earth unchained.
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🖋️ <500 words
📅 Due: 30 Sept 2025
#EcologicalFiction #Rewilding #EarthStories #FlashFiction
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🖋️ <500 words
📅 Due: 30 Sept 2025
#EcologicalFiction #Rewilding #EarthStories #FlashFiction
June 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🐺 Feral Lines — a flash fiction call from The Ecological Citizen — seeks *plot-driven* stories of nature’s resurgence, human retreat, and Earth unchained.
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🖋️ <500 words
📅 Due: 30 Sept 2025
#EcologicalFiction #Rewilding #EarthStories #FlashFiction
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🖋️ <500 words
📅 Due: 30 Sept 2025
#EcologicalFiction #Rewilding #EarthStories #FlashFiction
We've updated our topics list. Items in bold italics are those for which we are, at present, especially keen to receive submissions, but all topics mentioned are of great importance to us as a publication. #Nature #NaturalHistory #PracticalEcocentrism
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June 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We've updated our topics list. Items in bold italics are those for which we are, at present, especially keen to receive submissions, but all topics mentioned are of great importance to us as a publication. #Nature #NaturalHistory #PracticalEcocentrism
ecologicalcitizen.net/submissions....
ecologicalcitizen.net/submissions....
🌍 The world [...] is a tightly sealed container packed with innumerable spherical objects of almost-infinite variety – or, put more simply, a huge jar of marbles. And the place of humans? Just one of the orbs.
- Joe Gray
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#Rewilding #WorldRewilded
- Joe Gray
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#Rewilding #WorldRewilded
Playing with marbles – the inversion of nature | The Global Rewilding Alliance
It is a mild spring day in England, and I am on a passenger train headed for central London. I have a couple of unremarkable errands to run, and I am in no great hurry. In my carriage, I overhear a yo...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🌍 The world [...] is a tightly sealed container packed with innumerable spherical objects of almost-infinite variety – or, put more simply, a huge jar of marbles. And the place of humans? Just one of the orbs.
- Joe Gray
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#Rewilding #WorldRewilded
- Joe Gray
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#Rewilding #WorldRewilded
🌍 Today, we reached an important milestone. Two hundred of you have written for The Ecological Citizen since the journal's inception in 2017. 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
For the #Earth!
For the #Earth!
May 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🌍 Today, we reached an important milestone. Two hundred of you have written for The Ecological Citizen since the journal's inception in 2017. 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
For the #Earth!
For the #Earth!
🏆 The Ecological Citizen has published 200 authors!
🛡️ Yang & Hwang critique #militarized 'environmental security' as harmful. They propose '#sustainability necessary work'—daily, collective eco-actions—as a path to true security for all life. #securitization
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🛡️ Yang & Hwang critique #militarized 'environmental security' as harmful. They propose '#sustainability necessary work'—daily, collective eco-actions—as a path to true security for all life. #securitization
ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-13...
May 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🏆 The Ecological Citizen has published 200 authors!
🛡️ Yang & Hwang critique #militarized 'environmental security' as harmful. They propose '#sustainability necessary work'—daily, collective eco-actions—as a path to true security for all life. #securitization
ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-13...
🛡️ Yang & Hwang critique #militarized 'environmental security' as harmful. They propose '#sustainability necessary work'—daily, collective eco-actions—as a path to true security for all life. #securitization
ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-13...
🏞️ 🍁 The Enchantment of Nature | An Ecocentric Testimony
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"Wonder, which is the heart of enchantment, is itself fully relational. Always enchantment by, wonder at... It's also ecological."
#nature #ecocentrism #enchantment #wonder #ecocentricstories
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"Wonder, which is the heart of enchantment, is itself fully relational. Always enchantment by, wonder at... It's also ecological."
#nature #ecocentrism #enchantment #wonder #ecocentricstories
The Enchantment of Nature | An Ecocentric Testimony
YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen
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May 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🏞️ 🍁 The Enchantment of Nature | An Ecocentric Testimony
youtu.be/yzETxBrF8a0?...
"Wonder, which is the heart of enchantment, is itself fully relational. Always enchantment by, wonder at... It's also ecological."
#nature #ecocentrism #enchantment #wonder #ecocentricstories
youtu.be/yzETxBrF8a0?...
"Wonder, which is the heart of enchantment, is itself fully relational. Always enchantment by, wonder at... It's also ecological."
#nature #ecocentrism #enchantment #wonder #ecocentricstories
🌍 🪴 ♻️ What is environmental stewardship and does this ethical framework have flaws? #Stewardship #EnvironmentalEthics #Conservation #Ecology
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What Is... Environmental stewardship?
YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen
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May 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🌍 🪴 ♻️ What is environmental stewardship and does this ethical framework have flaws? #Stewardship #EnvironmentalEthics #Conservation #Ecology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoVW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoVW...
🌱 The Plant Initiative (@theplantinitiative.bsky.social) challenges us to reconsider how we relate to the green world around us. #Plants are not just backdrop—they're living beings deserving of dignity. We're inspired by this visionary team rethinking the ethics of the vegetal. 💚
plantinitiative.org
plantinitiative.org
The Plant Initiative
Building a movement to increase respect for plants
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April 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🌱 The Plant Initiative (@theplantinitiative.bsky.social) challenges us to reconsider how we relate to the green world around us. #Plants are not just backdrop—they're living beings deserving of dignity. We're inspired by this visionary team rethinking the ethics of the vegetal. 💚
plantinitiative.org
plantinitiative.org