Great list, thank you! I'd like to add a recommendation: Why Can't We Be More Like Trees? by Judith Polich. This is a fascinating read which I will return to again and again, as it is so densely packed with thought-provoking, assumption-challenging ideas. To quote some blurb:
"Breakthrough research is [...] revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence [...which] thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community. Exploring the latest cutting-edge environmental and ecological studies, climate adviser and environmental advocate Judith Polich explains how we can now see how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and seemingly sentient new world. She explains how trees communicate, how they share resources, and other ways in which they express holistic and cooperative behaviours [and shows] how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants."
Great list, thank you! I'd like to add a recommendation: Why Can't We Be More Like Trees? by Judith Polich. This is a fascinating read which I will return to again and again, as it is so densely packed with thought-provoking, assumption-challenging ideas. To quote some blurb:
"Breakthrough research is [...] revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence [...which] thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community. Exploring the latest cutting-edge environmental and ecological studies, climate adviser and environmental advocate Judith Polich explains how we can now see how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and seemingly sentient new world. She explains how trees communicate, how they share resources, and other ways in which they express holistic and cooperative behaviours [and shows] how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants."
We have a lot to learn from longer lived lifeforms. Thanks for the recommendation!