Phytophilia - Blow Your Mind Botany with Joe Medeiros
Channel: Sierra ECOS
Date: 2022-11-17

“Are you just going to lay there and vegetate?!” 

Instead of this being an insult, this should be considered a highly rewarding compliment. Plants have been evolving on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. We’ve been here for 200,000 tops! Yet we still ignore them. Devalue them. Disregard them. And worst, decimate them wherever they “get in the way.” 

Retired Sierra College botanist will review how we humans are 100% dependent upon plants. He will compare our five senses to their twenty! Professor Medeiros will share recent research demonstrating sophisticated plant communications (within their own and between other species) and how they mutualistically partner with all other living groups to literally direct ecological stability within all sunlight-driven ecosystems.

Joe Medeiros taught college botany and ecology for 34 years and has recently retired as Editor-in-Chief of the Sierra College Press. He has given hundreds of lectures and conducted field trips from the Sierra to East Africa. His recent mission is to share the incredible brilliance of plants and to hopefully reignite the appreciation of plants and natural ecosystems.