Plant Love Stories Share Your Story and Grow a Movement

• Published in: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America Vol. 101; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Mackenzie, Caitlin McDonough, Barak, Rebecca S., Bayer, Skylar, Bletz, Molly, Brunson, Mark W., Dudney, Joan, Gaoue, Orou G., Gill, Jacquelyn L., Harris, April, Kuebbing, Sara, McGill, Bonnie M., Nocco, Mallika, Tonietto, Rebecca K., Vahsen, Megan L., Waring, Elizabeth F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley and Sons, Inc 01.04.2020; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Autotrophs; Careers; Children & youth; Conferences; Digital media; Ecologists; Ecology; Meeting Reviews; Nature; Rainforests; Seeds; Spirits; Storytelling; Voice communication; Websites; Wildlife conservation; Young adults; Louisville Kentucky; United States > US
• ISSN: 0012-9623; 2327-6096
• DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1663

The Plant Love Stories (PLS) team organized an Inspire Session at ESA 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, to grow the movement, emphasize the power of storytelling in science communication (Bayer and Hettinger ), and elevate autotrophs. While we love sharing these stories on our Web site and through social media, organizing an Inspire Session of live storytelling embedded in the scientific community where many of us have “grown‐up” as early‐career ecologists was a special opportunity. [...]humans are hardwired for listening and absorbing information in the format of stories (Pickering and Garrod , Stephens et al. ). The spirits of plants give voice to forests; the fairies in FernGully: The Last Rainforest and the Forest Spirit in Princess Monoke embody human relationships to the natural world.