Alex
@treesaremygods.bsky.social
Raised by trees. Artist. Photographer. Cultural geographer.
Decolonize nature. Free the body. F>>> capitalism 🌲🍂🏳️🌈
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“Home is where the wild herbs grow”
Decolonize nature. Free the body. F>>> capitalism 🌲🍂🏳️🌈
free🇵🇸
“Home is where the wild herbs grow”
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“Imagine over 100 large harvesters working non-stop. That’s how fast we are losing the world’s forests.” 🌳🔥
— The World Counts
— The World Counts
We Have the Choice: Rainforests or Animal Flesh
Why livestock farming is the biggest threat to forests worldwide
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November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“Imagine over 100 large harvesters working non-stop. That’s how fast we are losing the world’s forests.” 🌳🔥
— The World Counts
— The World Counts
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Action alert from @enviroaction.bsky.social Tell the EPA: Save the bees. Restrict neonic coated seeds. "Just one seed coated in neonic pesticides can kill 80,000 bees." environmental-action.org/take-action/...
Tell the EPA: Save the bees. Restrict neonic coated seeds. - Environmental Action
From the moment the seeds are planted to the time the crops start blooming, nearly every stage of farming with neonic-coated seeds poses a deadly risk to wildlife.
environmental-action.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Action alert from @enviroaction.bsky.social Tell the EPA: Save the bees. Restrict neonic coated seeds. "Just one seed coated in neonic pesticides can kill 80,000 bees." environmental-action.org/take-action/...
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Doing self-portraits indoors is so different! In nature, I become the landscape, I bend and twist myself to take the more rounded, softer shapes, but at home, the realm of squares, you are suddenly forced to face yourself in a more… raw way because you can’t blend in.
Nikon F2, Delta 3200, Rodinal
Nikon F2, Delta 3200, Rodinal
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Doing self-portraits indoors is so different! In nature, I become the landscape, I bend and twist myself to take the more rounded, softer shapes, but at home, the realm of squares, you are suddenly forced to face yourself in a more… raw way because you can’t blend in.
Nikon F2, Delta 3200, Rodinal
Nikon F2, Delta 3200, Rodinal
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Episode #44 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast features Kate Brelje in conversation with Olivia Sprinkel about her new book, To Hear the Trees Speak: Adventures in Listening.
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Episode 44 Olivia Sprinkel's To Hear The Trees Speak
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
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September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Episode #44 of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast features Kate Brelje in conversation with Olivia Sprinkel about her new book, To Hear the Trees Speak: Adventures in Listening.
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
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Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Miranda Melcher of the New Books Network about Lawn. We covered a lot, from ecological grief to the politics of green space, the challenges involved in rewilding, and why the lawn might just be the most hellish landscape of the mind.
June 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I had the pleasure of speaking with Miranda Melcher of the New Books Network about Lawn. We covered a lot, from ecological grief to the politics of green space, the challenges involved in rewilding, and why the lawn might just be the most hellish landscape of the mind.
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In it, I explore Freud’s radical approach to painting plants, using his work as a springboard to ask a bigger question:
When and how can an artist capture the actual identity of a plant, rather than representing a generic objectification of one?
When and how can an artist capture the actual identity of a plant, rather than representing a generic objectification of one?
Giovanni Aloi | Art, Nature, Environment
Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature and the environment in art. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, is USA correspondent for Esse M...
www.aloi.info
June 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In it, I explore Freud’s radical approach to painting plants, using his work as a springboard to ask a bigger question:
When and how can an artist capture the actual identity of a plant, rather than representing a generic objectification of one?
When and how can an artist capture the actual identity of a plant, rather than representing a generic objectification of one?
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How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language ino.to/mPTXC3H
How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language
Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese. This is episode 49 of Stories of Resistance.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language ino.to/mPTXC3H
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bluesky seems so hopelessly US-centered ☹️
May 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Bluesky seems so hopelessly US-centered ☹️
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Ever wondered what life is like for a crow or magpie? Check out our new paper on corvid consciousness
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Dimensions of corvid consciousness - Animal Cognition
Corvids have long been a target of public fascination and of scientific attention, particularly in the study of animal minds. Using Birch et al.’s (2020) 5-dimensional framework for animal consciousne...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ever wondered what life is like for a crow or magpie? Check out our new paper on corvid consciousness
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
I grew up with dogs and love them, but this is a huge part of the reason why I do not want to “own” a dog.
"As the commonest large carnivore in the world, the environmental impacts of owned dogs are extensive and multifarious"
Bad dog?
www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pc24071
Bad dog?
www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pc24071
April 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I grew up with dogs and love them, but this is a huge part of the reason why I do not want to “own” a dog.
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Rajnish Khanna: Exploring Plant Consciousness and Photosynthesis Miracles, from Dennis McKenna's Brainforest Cafe podcast - "What can plants teach us about consciousness? youtu.be/Rz7Uc74oqLI
Rajnish Khanna: Exploring Plant Consciousness and Photosynthesis Miracles.
YouTube video by Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
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April 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Rajnish Khanna: Exploring Plant Consciousness and Photosynthesis Miracles, from Dennis McKenna's Brainforest Cafe podcast - "What can plants teach us about consciousness? youtu.be/Rz7Uc74oqLI
Just wishing everyone calmness. The kind that comes from being in nature and with your own people. Quiet, tucked away, safe.
March 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just wishing everyone calmness. The kind that comes from being in nature and with your own people. Quiet, tucked away, safe.
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Video recording of Plants and the Unified Field: A Conversation with Pete Yeo held Mar 18, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social An online conversation with plant writer and nature mentor Pete Yeo about plants and the ways in which we perceive and relate to them. youtu.be/MAx0ls1n84g
Plants and the Unified Field: A Conversation with Pete Yeo
YouTube video by The Plant Initiative
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March 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Video recording of Plants and the Unified Field: A Conversation with Pete Yeo held Mar 18, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social An online conversation with plant writer and nature mentor Pete Yeo about plants and the ways in which we perceive and relate to them. youtu.be/MAx0ls1n84g
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Those claiming that the climate crisis is a problem of the rich 1% are forgetting that without the 99% the rich wouldn’t emit all this CO2. They would have no employees, no consumers to sell to, and they wouldn’t be rich. The climate crisis is a problem of the 100%
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Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation and Overshoot
For a species that can calculate derivatives, project ballistic trajectories, and estimate sales volumes, it is astounding that humans stubbornly refuse to even acknowledge the negative effects of …
tsakraklides.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Those claiming that the climate crisis is a problem of the rich 1% are forgetting that without the 99% the rich wouldn’t emit all this CO2. They would have no employees, no consumers to sell to, and they wouldn’t be rich. The climate crisis is a problem of the 100%
tsakraklides.com/2024/11/27/w...
tsakraklides.com/2024/11/27/w...
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“I’ve decided not to even try to emerge.
I will stay under the surface.
I will stretch outward.
I will form connections.
I will nourish and be nourished.
I will be mycelium.”
This was a great read. 🧪
I will stay under the surface.
I will stretch outward.
I will form connections.
I will nourish and be nourished.
I will be mycelium.”
This was a great read. 🧪
I'm not talking about any of *that stuff* today. Let's talk about MYCELIUM 🧪🐡🍄
Be The Mycelium
Why bother emerging? The real work is happening deep in the soil
artologica.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“I’ve decided not to even try to emerge.
I will stay under the surface.
I will stretch outward.
I will form connections.
I will nourish and be nourished.
I will be mycelium.”
This was a great read. 🧪
I will stay under the surface.
I will stretch outward.
I will form connections.
I will nourish and be nourished.
I will be mycelium.”
This was a great read. 🧪
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Mainstream media outlets still hesitate to publish positive news about weed, even if it’s scientifically backed. These same outlets also make sweeping negative statements about cannabis based on limited, debatable findings. Read more from Indispensable.
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little-big-world.ghost.io/what-am-i-do...
What am I doing here?
The War on Drugs is and always has been a war on information
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February 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Mainstream media outlets still hesitate to publish positive news about weed, even if it’s scientifically backed. These same outlets also make sweeping negative statements about cannabis based on limited, debatable findings. Read more from Indispensable.
little-big-world.ghost.io/what-am-i-do...
little-big-world.ghost.io/what-am-i-do...
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What climate activists, environmentalists and campaigning conservationists, have got to come to terms with, is the model to drive action, used for well over 50 years is dead.
We have to take stock, not to give up, and develop a strategy which will create results, and not be a wasted effort.
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We have to take stock, not to give up, and develop a strategy which will create results, and not be a wasted effort.
1/🧵
February 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What climate activists, environmentalists and campaigning conservationists, have got to come to terms with, is the model to drive action, used for well over 50 years is dead.
We have to take stock, not to give up, and develop a strategy which will create results, and not be a wasted effort.
1/🧵
We have to take stock, not to give up, and develop a strategy which will create results, and not be a wasted effort.
1/🧵
Have you ever heard the sound of the Kalmyk/ Oirat language? You can say that you have now! Zayana is reading from the Epic of Jangar.
Analog portraits overlaid with digital video. All part of my Language Portraits project centering minority, endangered, and otherwise disadvantaged languages.
Analog portraits overlaid with digital video. All part of my Language Portraits project centering minority, endangered, and otherwise disadvantaged languages.
February 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Have you ever heard the sound of the Kalmyk/ Oirat language? You can say that you have now! Zayana is reading from the Epic of Jangar.
Analog portraits overlaid with digital video. All part of my Language Portraits project centering minority, endangered, and otherwise disadvantaged languages.
Analog portraits overlaid with digital video. All part of my Language Portraits project centering minority, endangered, and otherwise disadvantaged languages.
If there is ONE voice you need to hear about the role and history of plants in art, it’s @giovannialoi.bsky.social ‘s
The recording of the presentation 'Plant Politics: Uncontainable Vegetal Agencies' I gave at VUT-FAVU in Brno during November 2024 is now online. In this talk, I map the ideological foundations that underpin human-plant relations in art to show how these have been shaped by colonialist,
February 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If there is ONE voice you need to hear about the role and history of plants in art, it’s @giovannialoi.bsky.social ‘s
It’s great that one can post nudity freely on Bluesky, but I still find it troublesome that they label my clearly fine art male nudes in nature as “sexually explicit”. I wonder if it’s because the male body is censored a lot more scrupulously. Either way, it’s sad.
January 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s great that one can post nudity freely on Bluesky, but I still find it troublesome that they label my clearly fine art male nudes in nature as “sexually explicit”. I wonder if it’s because the male body is censored a lot more scrupulously. Either way, it’s sad.
From the early days of the Sacred Space series some 5 years ago.
January 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
From the early days of the Sacred Space series some 5 years ago.