Nature Evolutionaries

In the global crisis that treats lions as a killing commodity in cross-border trade, Linda Tucker has dedicated her life to the solution. After being rescued by a Tsonga medicine woman from a life-threatening encounter with a pride of lions in 1991, Linda Tucker gave up a career in international marketing to become a conservationist. She has dedicated her life to ensuring the well-being of the critically endangered White Lions, regarded as sacred animals, yet amongst the world’s most targeted trophy. Over 3 decades, she has campaigned for their sovereignty against the legalized malpractices in South Africa’s notorious cuddle-and-kill industry. She’s raised millions of dollars to secure vast wilderness in the heart of UNESCO’s Kruger-to-Canyons Biosphere, where she and her team have successfully reintroduced White Lions back to their natural ecosystem. Her pioneering initiatives include the establishment of the Academy for LionHearted Leadership™ and the StarLion eco-educational program for emerging youth leadership.Learn more about Linda and the White Lions at her website: https://whitelions.org/ Support the show

What if the hive is not merely a colony, but a field of intelligence? In this special Listening Field conversation, we welcome beekeeper, teacher, and author Jacqueline Freeman into a deep exploration of communication with honeybees. After moving to a biodynamic farm in southwest Washington and beginning her beekeeping journey in 2001, Jacqueline quickly sensed that conventional approaches did not honor the true nature of bees. Over time, through reverent observation and heartfelt presence, she began to experience the hive as something far more than a biological system. She encountered bees as conscious collaborators, responsive partners, and teachers of collective intelligence. In this conversation, we explore: • What it means to communicate with bees • How a bee-centric approach reshapes beekeeping practices • The difference between managing bees and being in relationship with them • What bees reveal about cooperation, sovereignty, and collective consciousness • How humans can re-enter sacred partnership with the more-than-human world Jacqueline’s work bridges biodynamic agriculture, natural beekeeping, and lived experience of interspecies communication. Her internationally distributed book, Song of Increase , opened the hearts of thousands to a more compassionate and participatory way of being with honeybees. Together, we listen into the subtle field of the hive — and consider what becomes possible when we approach bees not as resources, but as wise elders guiding us toward a more coherent world. Whether you are a beekeeper, a gardener, or simply someone who senses that communication in the living world runs deeper than we’ve been taught, you are warmly invited. The Song of the Hive is part of the 2026 Listening Field Series, ONE's year-long exploration of communication in the more-than-human world. Jacqueline Freeman is a beekeeper, teacher, and author devoted to restoring respectful partnership between humans and honeybees. She and her husband Joseph moved to their biodynamic farm in southwest Washington in 2001, where Jacqueline began keeping bees and quickly sensed there must be a more compassionate way to care for them—one that honors their innate intelligence and the way bees live in the wild. Over the years, Jacqueline developed and teaches a bee-centric approach that blends natural beekeeping practices with direct observation and deep relational presence. Her work invites beekeepers to shift from managing bees to being in conscious partnership with them. She is the author of Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World (Sounds True), now published internationally in multiple languages, and co-author of What Bees Want: Beekeeping as Nature Intended , a practical guide to creating natural habitat and supporting thriving colonies. Jacqueline has spoken at the Organic Beekeepers Conference, Women in Agriculture gatherings, and treatment-free beekeeping conferences across North America and Europe. She appears in the documentaries Queen of the Sun , Dancing with Thoreau , and the French film Abeilles: La Voix des Ruches . Through the USDA, she has worked with rural farmers and beekeepers in the Dominican Republic using historic, respectful beekeeping methods. Before dedicating her life to bees, Jacqueline founded a holistic health center and a women’s crisis center, and served on faculty for a Structural Integration school. In 2003, she and Joseph founded a school of Equine Structural Integration. At the heart of her work is a simple but profound premise: bees are not livestock or commodities, but conscious collaborators. Through careful attention, humility, and partnership, Jacqueline invites us to rediscover what becomes possible when we meet honeybees as teachers. Learn more about Jacqueline at her website: https://www.spiritbee.com/ Support the show

The Living Mirror: Waters of the Body Reflecting the Patterns of Nature What if the same intelligence that shapes rivers, galaxies, and snowflakes is also moving through your blood? Holographic Microscopist Fiona Gardner has spent years peering into the microscopic world of plasma and water — and what she finds there is not random. It is patterned, responsive, and alive. The fluid architecture within the human body organizes itself into intricate geometrical structures that mirror the forms found throughout the natural world. The same forces shaping the curve of a fern or the spiral of a shell are quietly at work within us. In this Listening Field conversation, Fiona invites us to see ourselves as living participants in Nature's ongoing conversation — not observers of an outside world, but reflections of it. When we slow down enough to look, the body becomes a listening field of its own. This conversation is no cost and open to all. About Fiona Gardner Fiona Gardner is a Holographic Microscopist, researcher, and visual explorer whose work reveals the dynamic relationship of plasma and water. Plasma is not simply the fluid of the blood — it is a dynamic field where the body's internal waters organize, respond, and communicate with the living architecture of life. Using the lens of the microscope, she observes the living motion of plasma, watching how the body's internal waters organize into intricate geometrical structures and living expressions of meaningful events. These formations often mirror the structures seen in the natural world — the same intelligence that shapes galaxies, rivers, and snowflakes organizing within our blood. Through years of observation, her work raises profound questions about the nature of plasma and the role of water in the body. Her work invites us to see ourselves as living art — patterns of consciousness shaped by the same forces that move through all of Nature. To learn more about Fiona's work, visit her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/messagesinplasma/ Find the video recording with images for this episode here: https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/events-programs/2026/fiona-gardner Support the show

Elephants call each other by name. They grieve. They remember. They communicate across distances in frequencies we are only beginning to hear. What does it mean to truly listen to another species — one with memory, language, and a social world as intricate as our own? In this Listening Field conversation, we enter the world of elephant communication with two of its most devoted witnesses. Dr. Mickey Pardo led the landmark discovery that elephants address one another with name-like calls — a finding that traveled around the world and cracked open new questions about animal cognition and communication. Moderated by Katie Surma of Inside Climate News, whose reporting sits at the intersection of science, rights of Nature, and environmental justice, this conversation asks not only what elephants are saying, but what it means for us to finally listen. Dr. Mickey Pardo is a behavioral ecologist and bioacoustician interested in the intersection of animal communication, cognition, conservation, and welfare. He earned his PhD in behavioral ecology from Cornell University, where he studied vocal communication and social cognition in both Asian elephants and Acorn Woodpeckers. He completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Colorado State University on vocal communication in African elephants, working in collaboration with Save The Elephants in Kenya, where he led the discovery that elephants address each other with name-like calls. This work was featured by over 3,000 media outlets in more than 90 countries, including the New York Times, NPR: Morning Edition, and BBC World, and helped contribute to the recent surge of interest in using machine learning to understand animal communication. During a second postdoc in the Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Dr. Pardo expanded his skillset into applied wildlife conservation, using passive acoustic monitoring, AI, and computer simulations to assess the status of bird populations. He is currently a Senior Scientist at the non-profit research organization ElephantVoices, where he is once again studying vocal communication in African elephants. Dr. Pardo has authored over a dozen scholarly publications, including in top scientific journals such as Nature Ecology and Evolution and Current Biology . In addition to his scientific work, he is an outspoken advocate for the rights of nonhuman animals and for food system reform to end our reliance on animal agriculture and commercial fishing. To learn more about Mickey’s work, visit ElephantVoices’ website here: https://elephantvoices.org/ Katie Surma is a reporter at Inside Climate News covering the rights of nature movement and international environmental justice. Her work has a strong focus on the intersection of human rights and the environment. Before joining ICN, she practiced law, specializing in commercial litigation. Her journalism work has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and others. Katie has a master’s degree in investigative journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, an LLM in international rule of law and security from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a J.D. from Duquesne University, and was a History of Art and Architecture major at the University of Pittsburgh. Learn more about Katie's work at https://insideclimatenews.org/ Support the show

Join renowned herbalists Pam Montgomery and Kate Gilday for an intimate storytelling session spanning a combined 85 years of wisdom. Get a rare glimpse into the triumphs of their flourishing gardens and herbal apothecaries, to the challenges and hard-won lessons of their teaching and healing practices, all of which shaped their herbal journeys. In this deep dive with two longtime friends, they share the laughter and tears of a lifetime dedicated to plants. Come walk down memory lane with these beloved mentors and gain an insightful view into what they believe is next for the future of herbalism. Support This Offering This free Earth Day webinar is a gift from the heart of our community—and we invite you to give back in support. Your donation helps the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries continue offering Earth-honoring programs like this one, uplifting Nature’s voice and deepening our collective relationship with the living world. 🌿 Make a Donation to ONE » Thank you for helping this work grow! Pam Montgomery has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. As an author, teacher, and practitioner, she has passionately embraced her partnership with the plants who are guiding us in our spiritual evolution. She is the author of Partner Earth: A Spiritual Ecology ; the best-selling Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness; and most recently Co-Creating with Nature: Healing the Wound of Separation . She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology, and people as Nature Evolutionaries. Pam is the founder of ONE. She has dedicated herself to co-creative partnership with all of life and feels the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a way to make this partnership manifest. You can connect with Pam here: www.wakeuptonature.com Kate Gilday is a clinical herbalist, flower essence practitioner and creator, Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant and herbal teacher working and living in the foothills of the Adirondack Park. She is the founder of Woodland Essence, a forest (and more) botanicals and flower essence company that she began 30 years ago with her husband Don Babineau that over time has developed a focus on Lyme, tick-borne infections and support for those challenged by chronic conditions. Healing with Flowers is her delight and passion, along with tending her relationship with the woodlands she loves so well. Songwriter of love songs to the plants, Earth and life, she is trying her best to write and share more via her personal website: www.journeybacktotheforest.com Support the show

Anna Breytenbach’s path into interspecies communication did not begin as a calling—it began during a tracking workshop in the United States. While immersed in the discipline of reading land, movement, and animal sign, Anna experienced an unexpected and unmistakable moment of communication. What occurred was specific, relational, and grounded in the reality of the moment—and it altered the course of her life. That encounter opened a body of work spanning more than two decades, during which Anna has communicated with wild animals and ecosystems across continents, supporting conservation efforts, wildlife rehabilitation, predator research, and ecological restoration. Her communication with a black jaguar named Spirit, later featured in the documentary The Animal Communicator , is one of many encounters that demonstrate how information can move clearly and accurately across species boundaries. In this session, Anna shares stories from the field that reveal how interspecies communication actually unfolds—how animals convey perception, intention, and environmental awareness, and how humans can receive that information when attention is steady, assumptions fall away, and relationship leads. Grounded in lived experience rather than belief, this conversation offers insight into interspecies communication as a natural human capacity—one that becomes available through presence, respect, and sustained engagement with the living world. This gathering is part of The Listening Field: Tuning into the heart of Nature , a live, interview-style conversation with space for reflection and participant questions. Anna Breytenbach is an internationally acclaimed professional interspecies communicator, based in Europe and practising for over 20 years on several continents. Native to South Africa, she mentors and consults globally. She holds a degree in Psychology and Economics, and studied telepathic animal communication with the Assisi International Animal Institute as well as tracking and mentoring at the Wilderness Awareness School in the USA. Her work is the subject of the documentary The Animal Communicator , watched by tens of millions of people and available on YouTube. As a qualified and experienced master facilitator, Anna focuses on mentoring in a practical manner that reminds us humans of the ways of indigenous nature awareness. She has guided thousands of people to rediscover and develop their natural senses and connection with all species in an honouring manner. Anna’s consultation work is exclusively with wild places and beings, facilitating peaceful interventions globally via remote work. This includes predator and cetacean research, wilderness protection, ecological restoration, wildlife management and rehabilitation. She facilitates wilderness retreats and animal communication safaris, and is engaged by communities and organisations as a teacher and inspirational speaker. Anna’s passion is raising awareness and advancing the relationships among human and nonhuman animals, on interpersonal and spiritual levels. She is a voice for animals and natural environments, sharing wild wisdoms for the benefit of all. Explore Anna’s Work: https://www.animalspirit.org Support the show

When Emelie Cajsdotter was eleven years old, she stood outside the stall of a small, unmanageable pony no one could “handle.” In a moment of shared presence, something shifted. The boundary between them softened. She did not disappear — but she was no longer alone inside herself. That moment shaped a lifetime. Over decades of living in close relationship with horses and other animal kin, that early encounter has opened into something quietly vast: a way of experiencing the world not organized around separation, edges, or isolated selves. Through life in the herd, Emelie has been shown a cosmological view shaped by continuity rather than division — one in which awareness is shared across a living field, and humans are only one expression within a larger intelligence. In this conversation, Emelie shares stories that arise directly from that lived reality. Rather than offering explanations or frameworks, her stories loosen what we habitually hold tight — our sense of boundedness, linear time, and standing apart. They invite us to sense what life feels like when boundaries are porous, when belonging is inherent rather than earned, and when the world is encountered as responsive, relational, and whole. In the Company of Horses opens a space to meet the world as the herd meets it — vast, participatory, and already alive with meaning. Emelie Cajsdotter is an author, storyteller, and the founder of Friskeröd , a sanctuary she established in 1995. She lives on the farm with her family and approximately 160 animals, and has been responsible for the daily life and care of the sanctuary for nearly three decades, supported by volunteers and community sponsorship. Trained as a homeopath, Emelie is best known for her storytelling—sharing what has been revealed to her through long, attentive relationship with horses and other animal kin. Through stories rather than theory, she conveys ways of understanding life, time, and belonging that arise from interspecies encounter and shared presence. Emelie has worked and studied in Ireland, Jordan, and New Zealand, and for many years has offered courses at Friskeröd in which other species are understood as the teachers. She is the author of All the King’s Horses , Zander and the Time , and Song of the Grass , and has participated in Swedish television and podcast projects connected with the sanctuary. To Learn more about Emelie and her work, visit The Friends of Mio website: https://www.friendsofmio.com/en Continue into The Listening Field This webinar is part of a larger collective offering from the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries. Visit the main Listening Field page to learn more about the full conversation series and how to engage with this ongoing exploration of listening and relationship with the living world. → Return to the main Listening Field page Support the show

The Mycelial Conversation opens a doorway into the living language of fungi and the ways they invite us into deeper relationship with the natural world. In this conversation, we explore how fungi communicate within ecosystems and how humans can learn to listen more deeply through relationship, attention, and practice. What stories are carried in mycelia and mushrooms? What messages travel through spores across landscapes and time? Through lived experience, forest-based practice, and cultural ways of knowing, this session invites reflection on mycelial intelligence as both ecological process and relational teacher. We explore what it means to be in relationship with fungi in the places where we live, and how these ancient beings can help us listen more fully to the wider intelligence of Nature. This gathering is part of The Listening Field: Tuning into the heart of Nature , a live, interview-style conversation with space for reflection and participant questions. Christopher Parker is a mycologist, Culture Keeper, and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He is the co-author of The Mycelial Healer: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms , a recently released book grounded in decades of hands-on practice, traditional knowledge, and applied mycology. Christopher is the co-founder, along with his wife Katherine Parker, and an instructor at The Forest Farmacy, where he teaches mushroom cultivation, medicinal uses of fungi, and regenerative forest-based practices. A self-taught mycologist, Christopher began cultivating mushrooms at a young age and brings more than 30 years of experience in mushroom cultivation, wild harvesting, herbal medicine making, and mycoremediation. He is deeply committed to food sovereignty and resilient local food systems and founded Asheville Fungi to provide mycological supplies nationwide and fresh mushrooms locally. His work is rooted in relationship with land and fungi, and in the ancestral foodways and traditional skills he carries. To learn more about Chris and his work visit his website: https://www.theforestfarmacy.com/ Continue into The Listening Field This webinar is part of a larger collective offering from the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries. Visit the main Listening Field page to learn more about the full conversation series and how to engage with this ongoing exploration of listening and relationship with the living world. →Check out the main Listening Field page Support the show

Each year, as we come to the close of another vibrant season of Nature-centric learning, story, and ceremony, we gather to ask one of our favorite questions: Can plants save the planet? Our wise green kin, plants and trees, have been shaping, sustaining, and transforming life on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. They know how to cooperate, adapt, and thrive even in times of upheaval. What can we learn from their quiet genius and generous hearts? This year, Pam Montgomery , ONE’s founder and longtime voice for conscious co-creation with Nature, is joined by the ever-insightful (and often delightfully funny) Tammi Sweet , herbalist, anatomist, and co-founder of the Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials. Together, they dive into the astonishing intelligence of the plant world, from root networks to heart medicine, and explore how plants just might be showing us the way forward. Expect stories that make you laugh, insights that may change how you see every leaf and stem, and reminders of what it means to live in kinship with the living Earth. Take part in this joyful, thought-provoking conversation and help nurture ONE’s work of deepening our partnership with Nature. Your participation supports a thriving, life-giving future for all beings. Tammi Sweet is the co-founder and co-director of The Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials near Ithaca. For the past 30 years she has taught thousands of students in a variety of learning environments. She offers classes in cannabis and herbal medicine, along with a variety of courses in anatomy and physiology both in-person and online. Sweet holds a master's degree in endocrinology. To access her free online cannabis world, and her upcoming Grow course, visit heart-stone.com/cannabis . Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher and Earth elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than four decades. More recently she has been working with the plants to heal the wounds of separation from Nature in order to move into co-creative partnership with all Nature. She is the author of three books including Co-Creating with Nature; Healing the Wound of Separation and the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally and virtually on plant initiations, spiritual ecology and co-creative partnership with Nature. She is the founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE and was a founding board member of United Plant Savers. You can connect with Pam here: www.wakeuptonature.com 🌿 With Gratitude to Our Sponsor This year’s Can Plants Save the Planet? webinar is generously supported by The Plant Initiative , a nonprofit advancing respectful treatment of plants through education, advocacy, and collaboration. Their work to uplift plant intelligence and consciousness aligns deeply with ONE’s mission to honor the Living Earth as a community of beings. Support the show

What happens when science, law, and love for the Ocean come together? Callie Veelenturf , marine conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has walked the nesting beaches with sea turtles and worked hand in hand with coastal communities, turning relationship into real protection. Michelle Bender , an international leader in Ocean Rights, is helping reshape law itself—pioneering policies that recognize the Ocean and her beings not as resources, but as relatives with rights of their own. In this conversation, Callie and Michelle share how their paths of biology and law weave into a movement for change: sea turtles and people thriving side by side, orcas and other beings gaining legal recognition, and humanity stepping into its role as caretaker of the living Sea. Be inspired by two voices showing that transformation is not only possible—it is already underway. Callie Veelenturf is a marine conservation biologist, National Geographic Explorer, a Scientist with the United Nations Harmony with Nature Programme, and Founder of The Leatherback Project and National Geographic Society’s program For Nature, who inspires high-impact conservation measures through collaborative scientific research initiatives. Callie has a special focus on marine turtles, ocean ecosystems and the Rights of Nature. As Founder of The Leatherback Project , she has trained over two thousand Panamanian Army and Navy soldiers in the recognition of illegal sea turtle products; identified new to science sea turtle nesting and foraging sites; and spearheaded groundbreaking conservation proposals and laws in Panama including a new National Wildlife Refuge; Law 287 recognizing the Rights of Nature; and Article 29 of Law 371 that recognizes sea turtles as legal entities with specific rights. She leads the Operations for three field research programs that document coastal development threats, justify new protection measures, and combat fisheries bycatch in the Pearl Islands Archipelago, Darien Gap, and project Iluminar el Mar from 2022-2025 in Ecuador. Most recently, she has received the 2024 Future For Nature Award, 2024 Schmidt Ocean Institute Visionary Award, and 2024 New Explorer of The Year Award from The Explorers Club and been named a 2022 United Nations Development Programme Ocean Innovator and 2020 National Geographic Early Career Leader. Michelle Bender is the creator and leading expert in the movement towards "Ocean Rights," the application of Rights of Nature in the ocean policy seascape. She has provided her expertise to Rights of Nature laws and policies worldwide, including in the United States (Rhode Island and Washington), Panama (national law, sea turtle conservation law and marine reserve), the Philippines (national law), Aruba (constitutional amendment), the Moananui Sanctuary Agreement to recognise whales as legal persons, and within international law and institutions (IUCN Motion 056 (2025)). She serves on the Advisory Board for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, is a member of the IUCN's World Commission on Environmental Law, an expert of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and Steering Committee Member for the UN Ocean Decade Coordination Office on Connecting People and the Ocean. In 2018, she was named one of 15 Youth Ocean Leaders taking on the world internationally by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. Michelle graduated Summa Cum Laude from Vermont Law School, where she earned a Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy and holds a B.S. in Biology with a Marine Emphasis from Western Washington University. To learn more about Michelle and her work visit the Ocean Vision Legal website. Support the show

We are often taught to see ourselves as separate from the living world — yet this separation is an illusion. As we grow into our fullness as human beings, we come into resonance with the shared intelligence of Life. It is natural to be open to conversation with Nature and other species. In this unique two-hour webinar-workshop, the Ocean Voices team — Intuitive Interspecies Communicators collaborating with marine scientists and researchers — shares how this groundbreaking initiative began and how it is transforming the way we listen to and engage with the Ocean. During this experience, you’ll: • Hear first-hand how Ocean Voices bridges science and intuitive communication. • Learn the principles of I ntuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). •. Experience the H.E.A.R.T. method (Heart Energy Achieving Real Transformation). •. Be gently guided in a direct, heart-based communication with our Ocean kin. Led by Dr. Lynne Shannon , Principal Researcher and head of the Marine Sustainability Lab at the University of Cape Town, the team also includes Wynter Worsthorne, Eleni Gkikakis, and Christine Noble Seller. Their work has been shared at the Global Biodiversity Forum in Davos and within Nature’s Council, inspiring new ways of knowing and collaborating across species. This is a special meeting of science and spirit as we listen to the Ocean together. Be ready to slow down, listen deeply, and embrace your fully human self — stepping into that wider conversation and relationship with Ocean, grounded in respect, reciprocity, and wonder. Support the show

Among the Tlingit people of Sheet’ká Kwáan (Sitka, Alaska), the yaaw , the herring, are honored as sacred relatives. The story of Kaxátjaashaa, the Herring Rock Woman , tells how the first herring came when she sang to them with respect, laying their eggs in her hair. From this teaching, Kiks.ádi women have carried responsibilities to the yaaw for generations through ceremony, harvesting, and collective care. In this conversation, Kh’asheechtlaa – Louise Brady , of the Kiks.ádi (Raven Moiety – Frog Clan), shares stories of the yaaw , their importance to Tlingit culture and ceremony, and their place in the wider ecosystem that supports whales, birds, fish, and people. She also speaks about the founding of the Herring Protectors , an Indigenous women-led grassroots movement rooted in traditional teachings that celebrates the yaaw , challenges destructive extractive practices, and asserts a sovereign Tlingit relationship with the land and waters. We invite you to join this webinar to learn about the yaaw , the people who continue to honor them, and why protecting herring matters for the life of the Ocean and for us all. Support the show

Dive into the deep wisdom of Whales with Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining), as she shares stories of kinship, presence, and the great evolutionary teachings carried by our Ocean relatives. During her recent time with Whales in Tonga, Pat witnessed their intimate family constellations — mothers and calves, quiet escorts, and the radiant love that flows through them. Through these encounters, Whale offered profound reminders about relationship, guardianship, and the spiral of time itself. Whale invites us to see evolution not as a long, linear timeline, but as something simultaneous — a vertical movement where past, present, and future rise together, like Whale itself lifting from the depths into the light. In this special conversation, Pat shares about her experiences with Whale as elder, teacher, and kin. Through her stories and ceremonial presence, we are invited to listen more deeply, to feel the spiral of time within us, and to remember our place in the great web of life. This is a chance to sit with Whale’s medicine of love, presence, and evolution — and to let their song awaken new possibilities in our hearts. Support the show

Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent and far-reaching threats facing our Oceans today—touching everything from marine life to coastal communities to climate resilience. In this powerful conversation with Rachel Bustamante of Plastic Pollution Coalition and Tamara Adame, a scientific ocean diver and anti-plastics activist , we explore the multifaceted impacts of plastic on Ocean health, and the deep interconnections between pollution, policy, and our relationship with the living world. With a background in environmental policy analysis and campaign coordination, Rachel has worked to protect marine biodiversity and Ocean health at both state and global levels—including participation in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations and direct advocacy with U.S. lawmakers. Her work is grounded in a commitment to justice, care, and solutions that protect people and planet. As a scuba diving instructor in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, diving in the Mexican Caribbean, Tamara started noticing a huge influx of plastics to the Ocean about eight years ago. Her own grassroots efforts at organizing Ocean cleanup - and seeing how little impact that had on the quantity of plastics in the region - led her to become an anti-plastics activist, both in her state of Quintana Roo and at the national level. Plastic bags in supermarkets have now been banned across Mexico, thanks to the efforts of many anti-plastics advocates, including Tamara. This session includes grounded insight, personal story, and tangible steps for those seeking to become more active stewards of Ocean health—whether in local watersheds or at the global level. Visit the webinar page to watch short film Mermaids Against Plastic and download a resource list with links mentioned in the webinar. To learm more about Rachel Bustamante and her work visit her here Plastic Pollution Coalition . To learn more about Tamara Adame and her work visit her website. Support the show

The Amazon breathes life into the Ocean. Through airborne rivers, nutrient cycles, and unseen pathways of energy and water, these two great bodies—Forest and Ocean—are intimately intertwined. In this opening session of our Ocean Conversation Series , we are joined by Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza —Peruvian chemical biologist, National Geographic Explorer, and award-winning artist. Raised between Lima and the edge of the Amazon jungle, Rosa’s work bridges Indigenous knowledge and modern science in service of biodiversity, conservation, and cultural resilience. This intimate, conversational session explores the nutrient flows between forest and sea, the role of traditional ecological knowledge in scientific understanding, and the art of storytelling as a pathway for ecological healing and reconnection. We also glimpse Rosa’s personal journey—her grandmother’s backyard “natural pharmacy,” her pioneering research on the Boiling River and medicinal stingless bees, and the global ecosystems that have shaped her vision. Her newly published book, The Spirit of the Rainforest , weaves these threads into an immersive journey through the Amazon—science, spirit, and story entwined. This is a conversation about relationship and reciprocity. A chance to listen to the waters—of land, sea, and self. Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza is a Peruvian chemical biologist, National Geographic Explorer, and award-winning artist whose work bridges Indigenous knowledge and modern science to protect biodiversity and uplift rainforest communities. Founder of Amazon Research Internacional, Rosa has led groundbreaking studies on extreme ecosystems, including the Boiling River and medicinal stingless bees, while advocating for policies that honor the intrinsic value of Nature. With Andean-Amazonian roots and global research spanning from the Amazon to Yellowstone and Alaska, Rosa integrates science, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom to foster deeper connection with the living world. Her recently published book, The Spirit of the Rainforest , offers an immersive journey into Amazonian ecology, culture, and healing. Support the show

Join Suzi Steer, founder of The Tree Conference and co-author of Rooted in Ethics , for an insightful conversation on citizen-led reforestation, protecting old-growth forests, and transforming our relationship with trees. Suzi explores the intersection of science, policy, and deep listening with Nature, highlighting innovative projects, grassroots movements, and cultural shifts that are reshaping how we care for Earth’s ecosystems. This session inspires new ways of thinking about trees—not just as resources, but as intelligent, interconnected beings essential to planetary wellbeing. Suzi Steer ’s mission is to support trees to survive and thrive on Earth in these times. She is the founder of the Tree Conference, an event that brings together scientists, tree-related NGOs, foresters, grassroots communities, creatives, legal experts, tree-speakers and the general tree-loving public. Suzi’s specialism is in the relationship between human construct systems (e.g. financial, legal, technological and governmental) and Nature’s planetary intelligence system. From her profession as a maths teacher, Suzi’s journey into exploring systemic change with individuals, communities and organisations has been through deep listening with trees and plants as experts in Earth’s multidimensional living systems. For six years Suzi worked through the UK charity TreeSisters to articulate the Ethics and Nature Relationships that support land, forest and biocultural restoration that honours all beings of Nature as conscious, intelligent and having agency. This involved listening with representatives of Original Peoples and Nations and reforestation practitioners alongside specialists in law and international agreements. The resulting Rooted in Ethics: The Community Tree Stewardship Framework and Practices Guides are co-published by TreeSisters and The Fountain, a US 501c3. Learn more about Suzi and her work at thetreeconference.com Support the show

Join us for a rare and profound conversation with visionary botanist, biochemist, and bestselling author Diana Beresford-Kroeger, whose work reveals Forests as living, breathing networks essential to our survival. In this intimate webinar, Diana shares insights from Our Green Heart , the culmination of her life’s research on the deep connection between forests, human health, and planetary survival. As one of the last people in Ireland to receive a full Druidic education, she bridges ancient ecological wisdom with cutting-edge science to show how forests serve as Earth’s lungs, medicine, and protectors against climate breakdown. Discover the hidden intelligence of trees, the critical role forests play in stabilizing climate, and how Diana’s groundbreaking Bioplan offers a roadmap for replanting the global forest—and our future. She calls on each of us to take action through planting, protection, and reciprocity with the natural world. This is more than a conversation—it’s a call to action. Leave inspired and empowered with steps to help safeguard the forests that sustain life on Earth. Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a globally recognized author, medical biochemist, botanist, and climate visionary. Raised in Ireland after the early loss of her parents, she was educated by elders in the Brehon tradition who passed on ancestral knowledge of plants and nature. Told as a child she would one day carry that wisdom into a troubled future, Diana has done just that. Since the 1960s, she has been sounding the alarm on climate change and advocating for the protection of global forests. Her scientific path led to degrees in botany and biochemistry, and to discoveries such as genetic smearing and cathodoluminescence in biological systems—now used in cancer detection. Yet her heart remained with the forest. In the 1970s, she created her own arboretum, gathered rare trees from around the world, and uncovered the chemical language and medicinal intelligence of forests. Her Bioplan empowers people everywhere to replant and protect native species. The plan has been adopted by cities like Ottawa and inspired international action. Diana’s 2016 documentary Call of the Forest introduced wider audiences to this vision, alongside a tree-planting app matching native species to location. Her collaboration with activist Sophia Rabliauskas helped secure UNESCO World Heritage status for Pimachiowin Aki, a boreal forest of immense ecological and cultural value. Diana’s legacy project is to clone and map the entire global forest—creating a living library of seeds to safeguard biodiversity for future generations. Learn more: https://dianaberesford-kroeger.com Support the show

The Elwha River Watershed is a living, breathing web of interconnection— home to salmon, orcas, towering trees, and the stories of the Lower Elwha Klallam people . For generations, these lands and waters have sustained life, and in return, they have been cared for as kin. But today, 850 acres of mature, structurally complex forests in the watershed are at risk of being auctioned for logging, despite decades of restoration efforts. In this conversation, we will explore the urgent movement to protect the Elwha’s legacy forests, guided by those who stand on the leading edge of this movement for protection and stewardship. Tashena Francis (Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Citizen) and Freddie Lane (Lummi Nation Elder) have been organizing their communities to defend the watershed, upholding their sacred responsibility to protect the land. They are collaborating with Elizabeth Dunne (Elwha Watershed Resident) , co-founder of the grassroots Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition (of which Tashena and Freddie are also a part). Elizabeth, who leads Earth Law Center's Cascadia Bioregion Program , is working to establish legal protections rooted in the Rights of Nature and principles of respect and reciprocity. Together, we will discuss: 🌿 Forests as relatives, elders, and teachers 🔥 Community organizing as an act of resistance and protection ⚖️ The Rights of Nature and how law can align with Indigenous knowledge 🌳 Working together as Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies for the places we love 🛡️ What we can do, collectively, to ensure these forests remain standing This is a call to listen, witness, and act . The Elwha’s forests are not lost yet— but they need all of us. Support the show

Join us for a transformative Earth Day webinar with renowned plant spirit healer and author Pam Montgomery. Pam guides us into a deeper relationship with the living world, inviting us to experience Nature as an ally and teacher rather than a resource to manage. Pam offers a perspective that is both practical and profoundly heart-centered, illuminating the subtle yet powerful connections between human beings and the natural world. Her newly released book, Co-Creating with Nature, delves into this relationship and offers pathways for healing. In this webinar, Pam shares stories of her own journey into plant communication, explores the intelligence present in Nature, and inspires us to rekindle our relationship with the Earth. Come with an open heart and leave with a renewed sense of wonder and connection to the world around you. Support This Offering This free Earth Day webinar is a gift from the heart of our community—and we invite you to give back in support. Your donation helps the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries continue offering Earth-honoring programs like this one, uplifting Nature’s voice and deepening our collective relationship with the living world. 🌿 Make a Donation to ONE » Thank you for helping this work grow. Pam Montgomery has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. As an author, teacher, and practitioner, she has passionately embraced her partnership with the plants who are guiding us in our spiritual evolution. She is the author of Partner Earth: A Spiritual Ecology and the best-selling Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness and most recently Co-Creating with Nature: Healing the Wound of Separation . She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology, and people as Nature Evolutionaries. Pam is the founder of ONE. She has dedicated herself to co-creative partnership with all of life and feels the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a way to make this partnership manifest. You can connect with Pam here: www.wakeuptonature.com Support the show

For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have used fire as a tool to cultivate and sustain the land. Yet, colonization and fire suppression policies criminalized these ancient practices, leading to devastating consequences for ecosystems and communities. Today, cultural fire practitioners are reclaiming the knowledge of their ancestors, bringing back "good fire" to heal the land, reduce catastrophic wildfires, and restore balance. Join us for an illuminating conversation with Elizabeth Azzuz, a dedicated cultural fire practitioner working to restore Indigenous fire stewardship. As a member of the Cultural Fire Management Council on the Yurok Reservation and Ancestral lands, Elizabeth helps train new generations of fire lighters, ensuring that traditional ecological knowledge continues to shape a more resilient and thriving landscape. In this webinar, we will explore: The spiritual and ecological importance of cultural burning. How fire supports food, medicine, and basket-making materials. The challenges Indigenous fire practitioners face in reclaiming their ancestral stewardship. The growing recognition of prescribed fire as a solution to today’s wildfire crisis. Elizabeth’s work is not just about fire—it is about sovereignty, cultural survival, and the renewal of life itself. Come listen, learn, and support the movement to restore Indigenous fire practices to the land. Elizabeth Azzuz is a cultural fire practitioner who has been burning since the age of four. Her Karuk grandfather taught her about her obligations to Mother Earth after catching her playing with fire. She is a mother and grandmother, and she gathers foods, medicines, teas, and basket materials in post-burn areas. As part of the Cultural Fire Management Council, she works to train fire lighters to restore ecosystems with the greatest tool left by the Creator—fire. You can learn more about Elizabeth and Cultural Fire Fire Management Council at https://www.culturalfire.org/ Support the show