Future Ecologies: Everything Will Be Vine

This episode of Future Ecologies podcast challenges everything we think we know about plants. My editorial consultancy on an early cut helped the producers to restructure and strengthen its narrative.

In ‘Everything Will Be Vine’, bestselling author Zoë Schlanger travels to Chile to meet “what might just be the world’s most extraordinary plant, hidden in plain sight.” I gave feedback on the first edit of this fascinating story, helping the producers of Future Ecologies to clarify the episode’s journey for listeners. 

“I arrived into the Valdivian temperate rainforests. The constant green and sounds of rain blanketed my senses in a vibrant static hum. In 2014, a Peruvian ecologist named Ernesto Gianoli had discovered that a vine, common to these rainforests, was able to mimic the shape of almost any plant it grew beside... a botanical chameleon...”