Ethnobotanist, author and Amazon explorer. Skoll Social Entrepreneur and TED speaker. President of
@AmazonTeamOrg
. Host of the podcast, “Plants of the Gods"
Esper talks about wrestling with quitting, which he says he considered several times, but says he was concerned that an increasingly emboldened Trump post-impeachment would install loyalists to carry out requests like the missile one
the reason the GOP side will never have their own
@marceelias
is because he fights for the rights of people *to* vote and Republicans argue for the opposite - which is simply a fundamentally less appealing argument.
The indigenous peoples of the
#AmazonRainforest
showed me how they used this plant for medical purposes in 1982 - once again, the indigenous peoples got there first!
#Cannabis
#Suriname
“unemployment is stunningly low. Gross domestic product growth has grown at three times the average pace as under President Donald Trump, real incomes are rising, manufacturing is booming, and inflation has eased for 10 straight months.”
The Amazon Conservation Team is proud to partner with the Trio indigenous peoples of the northeast Amazon to produce ORGANIC BIODEGRADABLE STRAWS from rainforest plants in honor of
#EarthDay
!
Putin said NATO's expansion eastward was why he invaded Ukraine. Now his invasion of Ukraine has expanded NATO's border with Russia by 833 miles with Finland officially joining today. Finland was once an emblem for neutrality. No longer. Historic. Anything else happening today?
Southern and central Brazil are in the midst of the worst drought in nearly 100 years, with agribusiness exports of coffee and sugar, and the production of hydroelectric power, at grave risk:
This is likely part of an effort to develop
a case against Trump associates like the Calamaris to give them a reason to flip.
Based on what is public, the Mar-a-Lago case still looks like the strongest potential case Trump faces. Smith continues to investigate aggressively.
Check out May Pang’s brilliant new film, “The Lost Weekend.” May (on the right) is seen here backstage at The Concert for George,” with unidentified band member. (Photo: MJP)
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter () from
@tferriss
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.
If you are
Insightful piece on the ethics of ingesting
#hallucinogens
from plants and animals. Please read and retweet! An Urgent Plea to Users of Psychedelics: Let’s Consider a More Ethical Menu of Plants and Compounds
An new interview with the inimitable Rhett Butler of Mongabay. Note that Mongabay is the number one global site for accurate and timely rainforest (and other ecosystems) news - if you don’t yet follow it, you should-
Taking a break working on my new podcast series, “Plants of the Gods.” Today’s episode: “
#Ergot
,
#LSD
and the Origins of Western Religion.” Follow on Spotify-
#Ethnobotany
: awesome and timely post by the great
@tferriss
: An Urgent Plea to Users of
#Psychedelics
: Let’s Consider a More Ethical Menu of Plants and Compounds
Check out Tim Ferriss’ brilliant “mashup” of the most popular episodes on the mind-altering plants of
#Amazonia
from my “Plants of the Gods” podcast: Dr. Mark Plotkin on
#Ayahuasca
, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of
#Coca
, and More (
#508
)
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator. But among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
— W. H. Auden
via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter () from
@tferriss
The indigenous peoples of South America are in a centuries-long struggle to reclaim and protect their ancestral territories. Mycologist
@PaulStamets
and I would like to help kickstart a land purchase campaign for the
@AmazonTeamOrg
at . We will each commit
NEW podcast episode is up!
Dr. Mark Plotkin on Coffee, The World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More
cc:
@DocMarkPlotkin
Please enjoy! 🙌
“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
— George Bernard Shaw , hat tip to Tim Ferriss
@tferriss
First Tom Lovejoy, now E.O. Wilson: two giants of tropical science and biodiversity conservation have passed on. May their legacy live on in all those they taught, reached and inspired.
GREAT NEWS FROM THE
#AMAZONRAINFOREST
, COURTESY OF THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT, THE AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM AND - MOST IMPORTANTLY - OUR INDIGENOUS COLLEAGUES!! Happy Holidays!
Today is a day of celebration! The Aduche Indigenous Reserve in the Colombian Amazon has been expanded. 122,287 additional hectares have been titled to the Andoque people and their reserve now connects to a 10-million-hectare conservation corridor.
Plants of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on
#Ayahuasca
, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of
#Coca
, and More (
#508
) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss