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Practising Plants
by Lyn Baldwin
Plants. People. Practice. In a world where plants form more than 80% of the weight of terrestrial life and people are the greatest evolutionary and ecological force on the planet, the practices people cultivate with plants matter. Whether we acknowledge it or not, all of us, if only through food chains, are bound in some form of practice with plants, yet these skills, and the way they shape how we think, are taken for granted nearly as much as the plants themselves. In a time when both plants and people live in precarity, can paying close attention to plant practises help us root alongside these strange and wondrous beings that eat starlight, that are energized by the chemical wizardy of strangers, that are our greatest allies in healing the hurt of the world? Let's find out.
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Carbon is the backbone of life, but in today’s world ‘carbon’ has become a dirty word. You me, the entire world is exhorted to decarbonize. In this episode I visit a horticultural greenhouse and inspired by the profusion of plants photosynthesizing on a winter day, think through the radical possibility that carbon plays in our… Continue reading Take an Atom
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Plants. People. Practice. In a world where plants form more than 80% of the weight of terrestrial life and people are the greatest evolutionary and ecological force on the planet, the practices people cultivate with plants matter. Whether we acknowledge it or not, all of us, if only through food chains, are bound in some form of practice with plants, yet these skills, and the way they shape how we think, are taken for granted nearly as much as the plants themselves. In a time when both plants and people live in precarity, can paying close attention to plant practises help us root alongside these strange and wondrous beings that eat starlight, that are energized by the chemical wizardy of strangers, that are our greatest allies in healing the hurt of the world? Let's find out.
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Lyn Baldwin
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