Leading minds in science, spirituality, and technology are learning to collaborate. For example the Merraki Institute has partnered with Bill Tiller and is conducting vigorous scientific research in a participatory global experiment.
http://www.merrakiinstitute.com/projects/
Anyone can participate to build a large collective pool of intention that will eventually effect our material world. Either with the link above or collective meditations like International World Peace Day.
We know the butterfly effect lies in chaos theory, it is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
I have mentioned this earlier as well among trees, where one tree secretes certain toxic sap to moths and other trees follow suit.