AT22-204 Webinar Sierra Club Monthly Program: Useful Wild Plants of Texas

Webinar Title: AT22-204 Webinar Sierra Club Monthly Program: Useful Wild Plants of Texas

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Comments: AT22-204 Webinar Sierra Club Monthly Program: Useful Wild Plants of Texas, Presenter: Scooter Cheatham (AT=1h)

Webinar Date: 04/12/2022
Webinar Time: 7:00p-8:30p

Event Summary:
Discover the wealth of wild plants in Texas.

Event Description:
Texas is the hub of a botanical domain spanning the southern US and northern Mexico. This region contains a vast reserve of self-regenerating botanical resources that can be used to improve our lives in the future. The Useful Wild Plants Project brings to light every use ever made of Texas’s 5,000 species of vascular plants along with thousands of new applications. It reaches back to ancient times when prehistoric peoples subsisted predominantly on plants and strides forward to current scientific discoveries in phytochemistry, medicine, nutrition, genetics, crop and product development, and more.

While proposed expeditions to put a colony on Mars or to find a verdant new planet to colonize are in the popular media, there is a whole new planet right under our feet — the vast undiscovered wealth of the plant kingdom. Botanical studies are being phased out at an alarming rate, and our inattention to these disciplines imperils our chances for a safe and productive future. A resurgence in plant exploration is urgent and essential.

Scooter Cheatham will speak about this visionary work that draws from the past and present to set up the “next economy on planet Earth” for the future in which all life can thrive. See www.Usefulwildplants.org for more information.

The URL to click on and join the meeting will be displayed after you RSVP (Register). Using your camera and microphone is optional for the meeting but encouraged.

Cost: Free

Register @ Sierra Club Monthly Program: Useful Wild Plants of Texas, Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Instructor/Presenter:
Scooter Cheatham

Organization Website:
Sierra Club Home Page: Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet

Sponsoring Organization:
Sierra Club