Carbon Catching Library

The Carbon Catching Library is an invitation to build knowledge about plants local to where you live, and to participate in plant-based carbon catching through propagation and interspecies care. The intent behind the Carbon Catching Library is to deepen our plant, soil, and pollinator literacy. These are vital collaborative skills we can build on our journey to ecological and environmental harmony.

Carbon Catching Library includes twelve zines by emerging artists. These zines think through the role of plants — and knowledge sharing about plants — in a time when we need to be living in greater understanding of the flora and fauna around us that have, for too long, been taken for granted as resources rather than relations. When we get to know plants as verdant kin, we come to understand and appreciate them for all their gifts, including their carbon-catching capacity as we transition away from extractive energy systems.

We encourage you to activate the instruction from the Carbon Catching Library of zines, and to start growing your own knowledge through starting plant-based Carbon Catching Libraries at home, in the workplace, or in any public community space.