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ReseedMental Health Healing in the Woods - Jarod K. AndersonModernity lets us be comfortable in isolation, and can make it difficult for us to turn towards nature and community. Many of us struggle with mental health challenges like anxiety and depression—and nature can help us heal. It can be helpful to see how our brains and internal worlds are a worthy part of the natural world. Guest Jarod K. Anderson is the Ohio-based author of Something in the Woods Loves Me, which explores his lifelong struggle with depression through a lens of love and gratitude for the natural world. He is also the host of the...2025-05-061h 03

ReseedLearning to be Lionhearted - Leah ThomasWatershed moments call for big changes. One of these shifts has been underway for some time: the righteous, individualistic, and exclusive environmentalism of the past is being steadily reimagined with an environmental movement that is characterized by joy, creativity, and authenticity. People are welcomed for being themselves and are invited to join where they are at, whether or not sustainability is what draws them to practices like mending or activism. This environmentalism will also be intersectional. Guest Leah Thomas is an award-winning L.A.-based environmentalist and author of The Intersectional Environmentalist. Leah is a p...2025-04-2240 min

FuturesteadingE177 Alice Irene Whittaker - Finding Presence In The Woods"I could live a lifetime here and still be learning - it’s a relationship - the greatest relationship of my life"Alice Irene Whitaker lives in a small cabin in the woods, is a mother of three, an author of the book “Homing" and host of the 'Reseed podcast, which is about rebuilding our relationship with nature.Surrounded by creek, meadow, and forest, Alice Irene began a new lifelong journey of repairing her fractured relationship with both herself and the natural world. Dismantling a history of anorexia, obsessiveness, and workaholism, she decided to sto...2025-03-3148 min

Reseed[Replay] Rewriting Wildness - J. Drew LanhamWhat does wildness mean to us when it is defined not by a few people, but rewritten for all of us?This episode of Reseed revisits the history of conservation to explore its dark corners, going beyond nipping off the buds and leaves to dig at its roots, unearthing information about those who are credited with founding Western conservation. A new conservation can be inclusive and accessible to all people while also protecting ecosystems and animals, like birds. Guest J. Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, wildlife ecologist, poet, professor, author, and lover of b...2025-02-071h 03

Plugged InHoming: A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth with Alice Irene WhittakerOn this episode of Plugged In, author Alice Irene Whittaker discusses her new book Homing: A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth and the importance of personal stories of care, love, and humanity in addressing climate change and social justice.This book was so nourishing for me - just reading it. The book evokes feelings of regeneration, renewal, and inspiration - amid hard, honest, heart-breaking questions and observations Alice Irene takes us to beautiful places, introduces us to inspiring people and brings us into her world, her family, and her journey of finding...2025-02-0231 min

Reseed[Replay] Seeding Regenerative Ideas and Dreams - Kamea ChayneTimes are dark. It is hard to imagine beauty, peace, or even the future. But we need to dig deep into our imaginations, and remind ourselves that expansive ideas and abundant dreams abound: rethinking climate activism, reorienting economic growth, climate reparations, rethinking conservation, and repairing place-based relationships. These themes are all explored in this thought-provoking conversation from the archives. Amidst a cacophony of doom and hopelessness, Kamea Chayne invites us to dream and imagine the possibilities, recalibrate how we measure abundance, and rejoice in the celebration of our renewed paths forward. Guest Kamea Chayne is a...2025-01-2255 min

Reseed[Replay] Resisting Consumerism, Reclaiming PowerConsuming stuff is embedded into our identities and our culture. We are told that we deserve to buy things, and that ownership defines our worth. For the sake of our planet’s health and our own freedom, it is well worth the hard work of dismantling our addiction to stuff and asking ourselves questions about who we want to be. Aja Barber joins Reseed for a fascinating and frank conversation that delves into intersections between fashion, justice, and climate, wildest dreams for remaking the fashion ecosystem, and how to balance individual and collective action. She dig...2025-01-1456 min

Reseed[Replay] The Search for Emotional Resilience amidst Climate Change - Britt WrayHow do we courageously face our eco anxiety and grief, and find the resources we need to cope with the climate crisis? How do we cultivate the emotional resilience that we need to weather ecological crises? How do we take care of our own mental health, so we can take care of each other and our Earth? Britt Wray joins Reseed for a conversation about climate change, emotions, and mental health. Britt is an acclaimed researcher, science communicator, author and TED speaker. Her Gen Dread newsletter, TED Talk with 2.4 million views, and writing in outlets l...2025-01-091h 04

conscient podcastENCORE e85 tracey friesen (in memoriam) - narratives of resilienceWhat's starting to interest me is stories of resilience for a post-carbon world. What are we going to need for our emotional well-being? It's going to be a different world, not long from now. If we do this, and we must do this, this transition has to happen and there's going to be a sense of loss and sacrifice and challenge, not just with what's happening externally from a climate point of view, but in how we're going to have to make changes to our lives and reorient our energies in terms of our advocacy. I feel like there's an...2025-01-0940 min

Reseed[Replay] Remaking Parenthood for the Anthropocene - Elizabeth BechardParents have the formidable task of providing care for their own children while also caring for a planet in crisis - all while questioning how to raise the next generation to be caretakers. This episode of Reseed looks at the unique role that parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and other guardians can play, with specific actions that we can take as people who are raising children at an exhausting and intensive stage of life. We explore how to guide children to be active stewards and activists, without imposing too heavy an emotional burden that lessens their resilience or their...2024-12-031h 11

Reseed[Replay] Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather StationMusic can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed album Ignorance about climate grief struck a chord with citizens and critics. Performing as The Weather Station, Lindeman’s 2021 poetic, thoughtful, and highly danceable album was named album of the year by The New Yorker and Uncut. Tamara joins Alice Irene Whittaker, the host of Reseed, for a conversation that starts with climate grief before spanning to art, selfhood, rootlessness, connection, and the heartbreaking beauty of birds. Tamara Lindeman emerged from Toronto’s vibrant folk scene, and as The Weat...2024-11-2649 min

Reseed[Replay] Beautiful Forms of Resistance - Erica Violet LeeHow do we find freedom from the relentless demands of capitalism? How do we cultivate rest as a radical act of resistance and revolution? How do we learn from, centre, and support Indigenous sovereignty? How do we learn from Black organizing and resistance, and see Indigenous and Black liberation as coexisting side-by-side? How do we avoid the co-opting of grassroots movements, and stay clear headed about who we are in solidarity with?Poet, scholar, and community organizer Erica Violet Lee joins Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker for a powerful conversation about freedom, resistance, and belonging...2024-11-2047 min

Reseed[Replay] Redefining Environmentalism - Chúk OdenigboHow do we redefine environmentalism so that it includes everyone? How do we embed justice and belonging into our relationship to the natural world? How can we include cities and modernity in our definition of nature? What is the role of our ancestors in environmentalism and activism?These questions are explored in a conversation between Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker and Chúk Odenigbo, an expert in climate justice, oceans, anti-racism, public health, and decolonization. This beautiful conversation about big ideas and complex intersections delves into using one’s power and influence to dismantle oppressive syst...2024-11-1250 min

ReseedWayfinding Alternative Economic ModelsEconomic models can operate in support of life on earth, rather than at the expense of the living world. Listeners of this episode can dip their toes into a variety of economic approaches that are available to us, from doughnut economics to the circular economy to the well-being economy to the regenerative economy to degrowth.Don't worry if economics is not your thing. This really is about our home, and how we structure society and our economy so that they operate in service of our life support system, our nest. This episode explores the migratory r...2024-11-0538 min

conscient podcaste206 arno kopecky - art as an inexhaustible resourceI think if we can reimagine what matters to us and pursue that, then perhaps there's a chance that we can stop this truly self-destructive pursuit of infinite more, and in material terms, become happy with enough, without giving up the idea of personal growth and evolution, because I do think that is core to what it is to be human and even just alive. Life is about growth. The history of life on earth is one of ever more complexity and richness. And I think it would be like, I just don't agree with the argument that we have to s...2024-10-081h 07

conscient podcaste196 alice irene whittaker (part 2) - homing, a book reviewI think a lot of people right now are feeling terror or feeling deep grief - worry about climate - and might mention it in a joking way over dinner, like ‘oh, well, we'll see if we're all around in 20 years’ and there's so much truth to that, to the pain people are feeling in the worry. And so in the end, I think and hope that it's helpful to share my personal emotional experience of this, even though it's very vulnerable to do so.As promised during our first conversation on June 10th, 2024, in e187 alice irene whittaker - ca...2024-09-0342 min

conscient podcaste187 alice irene whittaker - caring for the planet I loveAbout collapse acceptance : I've been in that space and it is really liberating. How I frame it for myself is : I don't know how it all turns out and it's really out of my control and to not worry about it (not that I never worry about it) but what's really in my control is : do I show up as a human being and feel my humanity and care for the people I love and the places I love and this planet I love ? That is what I can do.I first heard about Alice Irene Whittaker’s work fr...2024-07-2945 min

ReseedThe Hummingbird Who Lost His WayA small hummingbird flew over 1,900 kilometres, and ended up in a Saskatchewan backyard before a cold winter. The hummingbird – later called Yosemite Sam in national news stories – had performed something called reverse migration, a phenomenon where a bird migrates in the wrong direction. Sam ended up in the care of today’s guest, who protected the Californian bird through a Canadian winter, while she puzzled over how to rehabilitate the bird to the wild. Jan Shadick is a wildlife rehabilitator, and the Executive Director of Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation. Jan has spent decades advocating for wildlife rehabilitation, and she...2024-05-0740 min

ReseedReconnecting with Soil - Antonious PetroEach of us is deeply connected to soil, whether we see or feel soil directly. It is the source of our food, medicine, and clothing, and is critical to the liveability of our ecosystems and to our lives. Healthy soil can also help us rise to meet biodiversity loss and climate change. We can grow soil, and sequester carbon, feed ourselves, and strengthen local communities and economies in the process. Guest Antonious Petro is the Executive Director of Régénération Canada and a Masters Candidate in Soil Science. His background is in b...2024-03-1244 min

The GoodBeing PodcastThis Wild Life: A Conversation with Alice Irene WhittakerHow do you maintain a sense of hope and optimism without leaning too far into naivety? It's a question I've often asked myself and one of the themes that is sprinkled in this conversation with mother, writer, and environmental communications leader, Alice Irene Whittaker. We talk about being caretakers of the natural world, the challenge of self-shaming and guilt for environmental stewards and advocates, the role of deconstruction in self-development, the magic of a more embodied experience, and much more. Alice Irene's podcast Reseed Alice Irene's Website Alice Irene's Instagram 2024-02-201h 00

ReseedOur Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní DochartaighWe are midwives of a transformation, in a time of crises and grief. Now is a moment to find our most expansive definitions of motherhood, nature, and ancestry in order to equip us for this moment. This episode of Reseed explores mothering in these times of ours, writing through emergency, a ceasefire in Palestine, and the power of togetherness. Kerri ní Dochartaigh is an Irish mother, writer, and grower. Her work explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. For her first book, Thin Places, she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly com...2024-02-1655 min

ReseedBirds, Imagination, and the Tyranny of ClocksWe all have times of silence — when momentum slows down, we turn inwards, or we cannot rush and produce. These wintering times, as Katherine May calls them, can allow us to rest and heal, but they can also lead to big changes. Taking times of silence can be one essential tool for restoring our energy and then changing how we are directing that energy: to confront a machine of oppression and extraction; nurture our communities and projects; or rebuild how we want to live. Guest Steven Lovatt is a birder, writer, critic, parent, and...2024-01-3059 min

ReseedReconnecting with Land and Community through Slow FashionIn the darkness of solstice season, a slim and nourishing light begins to return, imperceptibly, like the small and steady reconnections we are making to the earth and each other. This conversation explores how we can reconnect with land and improve our relationship with the environment through natural dye and slow fashion. These practices allow us to express creativity and connect with our specific homes on a miraculous and hurting planet. We discuss how no one can shoulder the weight of environmental care alone, and it is important (and joyful!) to cultivate community – we need each other. ...2023-12-2346 min

ReseedThe Pursuit of Old Growth Giants - Amanda LewisA journey to track giants - the biggest old growth trees in British Columbia - teaches us about the relationships we have with forests, and the threats our trees face, from runaway wildfire to old growth logging to climate change. This journey also sheds light on the harms of a checklist approach to life where we search for the biggest and best acquisitions at a recklessly fast pace. Guest Amanda Lewis is a big-tree tracker and an award-winning book editor. Born in Ireland, she now lives in a log house on a small island in t...2023-11-1456 min

ReseedTurn Towards Each Other: A Collective Climate Justice Movement - Tori TsuiCollective action can lead to real, tangible victories, like halting an offshore oil project proposed by Big Oil, reminding us that collectives of people have the power to challenge destructive and powerful forces. Instead of the individualistic, lonely, consumerism-heavy environmentalism that claimed centre stage in the past - telling us we are guilty for the worsening climate impact and we need to solve it all alone - the collective climate justice movement encourages us to turn towards each other. Guest Tori Tsui is a Bristol-based climate justice activist, organiser, writer and speaker from Hong Kong. Y...2023-10-1752 min

ReseedWitnessing the Lives and Deaths of Animals Among Us - Amanda StronzaOur lives interconnect closely with the lives of animals. From the raven to the honey badger to the snake to the fox, we live in relationship with the animals, our neighbours and creaturely kin. When the convenience of our modern life causes animals great violence and harm, many of us are deeply affected, even heartbroken, and many of us privately seek ways to grapple with and grieve the cycle of life and death in a society that largely disregards animal life. Guest Dr. Amanda Stronza discusses her poetic animal memorials that resonate with tens of thousands of peop...2023-10-0358 min

ReseedSeason 3 TrailerThe human animal lives at a fragile moment on Earth. But, even as the world we know erodes, many people leave the comfort of denial and inaction to rise and face a changing world with generosity and brave, active hope. In season three of Reseed, host Alice Irene Whittaker sits down with an animal rehabilitator, a conservation biologist, a birder and author, a beekeeper and grower, a natural-dyer, a climate justice activist, a giant tree tracker, and others who are renewing, repairing, redesigning, reconnecting, and reimagining.At their heart, these conversations are about (re)connecting...2023-09-2503 min

The Heart Gallery PodcastIntroduction to The Heart Gallery with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer & Alice Irene WhittakerSend us a textFor Episode 1 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer introduces the podcast in conversation with writer & podcaster Alice Irene Whittaker.Visit The Heart Gallery's visual accompaniment for this podcast episode here (podcast transcript also available here).Mentioned: - Poet & ornithologist Drew Lanham- Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station.- Chris Jordan’s M...2023-03-151h 03

ReseedRevealing Why Women Grow Gardens - Alice VincentWhy do we grow in our gardens? Are we searching for closeness to the mystery and magic of the natural world, or perhaps working towards self-sufficiency by feeding ourselves? Do we grow to create habitat for pollinators or enrich precious soil? Do we grow to foster a knowledge of growing in our children, and to foster community? Do we grow to grasp control in a scary world? Do we grow because we love beauty?Wise and curious guest Alice Vincent delves into her new book, Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival. Alice...2023-02-0857 min

ReseedOn Location in Colorado: Regenerative Ranch, Regenerative Economy - Hunter LovinsThis mini-documentary chronicles the journey of host Alice Irene Whittaker in 2019, when she traveled pregnant with her third child to Colorado to interview acclaimed environmental economist and regenerative rancher Hunter Lovins. Around a kitchen table in her regenerative ranch, Hunter answers curiosities about a circular economy that is modelled on nature’s cycles, and envisions the large-scale transition to renewable energy and ecologically-responsible business. The role of cities and local food systems in caring for our environment are explored. Hunter reflects on her lived and professional experience in transforming landscapes and soil through regenerative agriculture. L. Hu...2023-01-311h 04

ReseedLocal Food Reinvented with Tech - Eddy BadrinaHow do we feed everyone, how do we feed cities? How do we tackle food deserts and food injustice? And what if there is not one answer to these questions - but many?This experiment of how humanity tackles environmental breakdown requires all of us. People will find their niches. For Eddy Badrina, that niche is the intersection of economics, technology - and lettuce.Guest Eddy Badrina is the Chief Executive Officer of Eden Green, a part vertical farm, part technology company that produces year-round harvests of locally grown leafy greens. Eddy is...2023-01-2447 min

ReseedReawakening into Something Better - Larissa CrawfordIn these dark winter days at the beginning of a new unknown year, this reflective episode invites us to be quietly awake: awake to our true selves, awake to who we are in relationship with, awake to how we honour our responsibilities, and awake to justice. How can we be awake to beauty as well as the darkness of the world and the fragility of ecosystems and species? How can we be awake to the brokenhearted but resilient and courageous millions who refuse to abandon a planet that needs our care?Guest Larissa Crawford is...2023-01-1754 min

ReseedRelocalizing Our Food Future - Barbara SwartzentruberImagine creating a food future where all people have access to nourishing affordable food, growing practices are regenerative, and our food systems transition from being global and fragile to regional and resilient.This conversation looks at our isolation from the Earth and food that nourishes us, and wonders about repairing our relationship with land and agriculture. We discuss the extractive systems on which we are dependent, and what happens when our systems are disrupted by climate change. We interrogate the prevailing economy which we have been serving and supporting - and look at other options, like a...2022-12-2052 min

ReseedMedia, Stories, and Culture Reclaimed - Sara LopezCommunicating the Anthropocene is an art and a science. Multiple messages, tactics, messengers, and channels can be harnessed to convey climate change problems and solutions to citizens. Environmental communications are one of the most underutilized solutions we have for rising to meet environmental crises. Every movement, every momentous and terrible human collective shift starts not with weapons or protests - they start with words.Anthropocene problems are spiritual and cultural. Our greatest problems lie in a lack of sacredness, disconnection, isolation, rootlessness, too much stuff, too much pressure, distraction, division, and a lack of imagination of other...2022-12-0658 min

ReseedRemembering We are Stewards - Tao OrionLooking at species in a landscape, we can see the stories of each creature and what role it plays in that ecosystem. So, what is our role in our landscapes? Are we an invasive species? Too often we hear that we are doomed to be takers, who damage the planet with our very presence. However, it is possible to see ourselves as creative stewards of the Earth while meeting our own needs. Most of us have not seen a reciprocal reality brought to life, but this Reseed conversation about permaculture, agroecology, land rights, and ecosystem restoration illustrates...2022-11-2955 min

ReseedRewilding the Ocean - Charles CloverThe ocean - which has always held mystery for us human beings - also holds powerful solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. By rewilding our oceans and protecting the forests of the sea, we can bring back essential biodiversity, reduce the worst of climate change, and provide a sustainable source of food for humans and many ocean species. In a world of discouraging environmental news, stories of the proven successes and future potential of rewilding the ocean are a beacon of hope. Charles Clover is the Executive Director of the Blue Marine Foundation, and a...2022-11-1651 min

ReseedReclaiming Food Sovereignty, Remembering Women Farmers - Leticia Ama DeawuoFood justice is interwoven with conversations about our women ancestors and motherhood in this episode of Reseed. Food is interconnected with human health, planetary health, water, soil, animals, culture, and care. At its worst, the production of food is one of the most damaging sources of climate change and biodiversity loss, and it can be cruel to animals and exploitative to people. At its best, growing food roots us into this beautiful Earth, creating a reciprocal relationship with the land, connections with community - and the reclamation of rights. Guest Leticia Ama Deawuo has been a...2022-11-0850 min

ReseedRejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures - Grace NosekFossil fuel narratives seep into our culture, media, politics, and minds like pesticides through soil, water, and food. It can be hard to know where these pervasive and damaging narratives started, or how to extricate them from our lives. Fortunately, we can create our own hopeful narratives of possible climate futures that run like fast-moving rivers from person to person. Guest Grace Nosek is a climate justice scholar, community organizer, and storyteller. Grace has spent years studying and deconstructing the narratives and tactics of the fossil fuel industry - as well as creating her own h...2022-11-0156 min

ReseedSeason 2 TrailerOceans, cities, farming, media, storytelling, seeds, soil, and activism are being reimagined and revolutionized by the captivating guests who join season 2 of Reseed. Host Alice Irene Whittaker delves into thought-provoking, in-depth conversations with people who are repairing our relationships with nature. Seeds of change are being planted by these guests - and also by millions of us. Individually, these seeds seem small, but together, they transform our ecology and our selves.We can repair, heal, cultivate, and steward when it is needed the most. This is our calling. Reseed conversations make space for the very re...2022-10-2402 min

ReseedReigniting Creativity for a Caring World - Rebeka Ryvola de KremerWe protect our gentle hearts and our fearful brains by saying things cannot change, telling ourselves it isn’t as bad as it is, or just ignoring environmental and social breakdown all together. Our disillusionment can be a slow erosion of imagination and hope, day by weary day, with global tragedies playing out behind our personal triumphs and pains. As an antidote to disconnection and despair, artists have a powerful role to play: making space to feel grief, sparking imagination, knitting people together in solidarity and shared experience, and rekindling a belief in what is possible. Guest Reb...2022-06-211h 06

ReseedRewilding Science and Stories - Kai ChanFrom the wonder of watching tiny, wild critters to the grand, complex world of international environmental research, this conversation spans worlds. It navigates the often-separate disciplines of science and stories, threading them together. Guest Kai Chan and host Alice Irene Whittaker discuss our responsibilities on Earth, heroic action, the value of nature, the connection between culture and conservation, what it is really like to work on those massive international climate reports, and rewilding a beautiful planet. Kai Chan is a scientist, professor, and cofounder of CoSphere, a Community of Small-Planet Heroes. He is the Canada R...2022-06-0759 min

ReseedRewriting Joy Amidst Crisis - Danielle DanielHow do we balance joy with sorrow in the midst of ongoing crises? Seeking freedom is not frivolous but rather essential, so that we are able to care for ourselves as we protect wild places, and so we can be resilient in the face of environmental and social breakdown. This conversation explores the importance of strengthening our relationships to our ancestors, protecting the places where we live, and reconnecting with our own inner child in this search for joy.Guest Danielle Daniel is an award-winning author and illustrator of settler and Indigenous ancestry, who has...2022-05-2444 min

ReseedA Web of Relationships - Dr. Elizabeth SawinWe live as part of a wondrous planet, an intricate web of interconnections and relationships. We have been taught, though, to think not in wholes and connections, but rather to break everything into simple, easy-to-digest pieces. What is often lost is our knowledge that we are whole, and that we belong here. Fortunately, systems thinking helps us to see interconnections and complexities, and learn from whole systems, like a body, ecosystem, economy, community, or planet. Drawing on this way of thinking, multisolving helps us solve complex problems by taking actions that result in many interconnected benefits. This conversation looks a...2022-05-0957 min

ReseedWitnessing Waste, Restoring Scrap - Stacey TenenbaumThere is a strange and haunting beauty to the discarded massive objects like ships, planes, cars, and phone booths that sit in waste graveyards around the planet. These relics of the past and symbols of our disposable culture are spotlighted in Scrap, a new documentary by filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum, who tells the stories of the human beings who live with and have relationships with these objects at the end of their useful life. Scrap draws on poetic, cinematic storytelling to allow us to witness what happens to the mammoth waste that we create and discard, and delves into the...2022-04-2547 min

ReseedRerooting Farms in the City - Cheyenne SundanceGrowing our own food and supporting local farmers has multiple, interconnected benefits, and farms in the cities can play a powerful role in regional food systems. Soil is regenerated, human bodies and minds are nourished, emissions are reduced, local economies based on fair labour are supported, beauty flourishes in city environments, and communities are strengthened. All of this is possible - and in places like Sundance Harvest, abundant dreams like this have already taken root. Guest Cheyenne Sundance is a self-taught farmer. She is the Farm Director of Sundance Harvest, an ecological farm in Toronto w...2022-04-1951 min

ReseedRewriting Wildness - J. Drew LanhamWhat does wildness mean to us - and what should it mean? What can wildness mean when it is defined not by a few people, but rewritten for all of us?This episode of Reseed revisits the history of conservation to explore its dark corners, going beyond nipping off the buds and leaves to dig at its roots, unearthing information about those who are credited with founding Western conservation. Deconstructing nice and lovely platitudes can unearth real truths, to first feel the despair of unlearning and then create a better way. A new conservation can be inclusive...2022-04-111h 02

ReseedGeneration Dread’s Search for Emotional Resilience - Britt WrayHow do we courageously face our eco anxiety and grief, and find the resources we need to cope with the climate crisis? How do we cultivate the emotional resilience that we need to weather ecological crises? How do we take care of our own mental health, so we can take care of each other and our Earth? Britt Wray joins Reseed for a conversation about climate change, emotions, and mental health. Britt is an acclaimed researcher, science communicator, author and TED speaker. Her Gen Dread newsletter, TED Talk with 2.4 million views, and writing in outlets...2022-04-041h 03

ReseedResisting Consumerism, Reclaiming Power - Aja BarberThe journey to consuming less and reclaiming our collective power is an imperfect, emotional, and challenging one. Consuming stuff is embedded into our identities and our culture. We are told that we deserve to buy things, and that ownership defines our worth. For the sake of our planet’s health and our own freedom, it is well worth the hard work of dismantling our addiction to stuff and asking ourselves questions about who we want to be. Aja Barber joins Reseed for a fascinating and frank conversation that delves into intersections between fashion, justice, and cli...2022-03-2955 min

ReseedSeeding Regenerative Ideas and Dreams - Kamea ChayneExpansive ideas and abundant dreams abound: rewriting environmental storytelling, rethinking climate activism, reorienting economic growth, climate reparations, rethinking conservation, resisting the co-opting of progressive movements, reclaiming green for the people, and repairing place-based relationships are all explored in this thought-provoking conversation. As we pass over that lovely threshold into spring - and as the Earth requires our creativity and dreams more than ever - we are presented with an ideal moment at which to plant the seeds for a more regenerative relationship with the Earth and with one another.Guest Kamea Chayne is a creative...2022-03-2154 min

ReseedRemaking Parenthood for the Anthropocene - Elizabeth BechardParents have the formidable task of providing care for their own children while also caring for a planet in crisis - all while questioning how to raise the next generation to be caretakers. This episode of Reseed looks at the unique role that parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and other guardians can play, with specific actions that we can take as people who are raising children at an exhausting and intensive stage of life. We explore how to guide children to be active stewards and activists, without imposing too heavy an emotional burden that lessens their resilience or their...2022-03-071h 10

ReseedRediscovering the Lost Art of Mending - Arounna KhounnorajIn difficult times, people are often drawn to make and create with their hands. Throughout the pandemic, activities like baking bread, gardening, and sewing have resurfaced as small acts of resistance to a culture that celebrates overabundance and digital distraction, and as joyful acts that help to restore our mental health. Mending has been widely embraced as a practice that subverts throwaway culture while allowing people to slow down and repair clothing with their own hands. Mending and repair are also important parts of a thriving, circular fashion system that reduces consumption and waste, redesigns the whole textile industry...2022-02-2852 min

ReseedReorienting Veganism Towards Liberation - Isaias HernandezOur relationships with animals and land, and our decisions around food, vary vastly from person to person. Most of us have grappled with these relationships, as well as how we want to live in right relationship to land, food, and animals. With curiosity, this conversation delves into complexities and nuances of veganism, going beyond easy answers to explore intersections of animal rights, social justice, cultural respect, and environmental care. Isaias Hernandez joins Reseed to bring his experience as an environmental justice educator and activist from Los Angeles. Growing up, Isaias lived in a community that f...2022-02-2155 min

ReseedRekindling Kinship with Nature - John Hausdoerffer and Gavin Van HornHow can we deepen our care and respect for our family of creatures on this wondrous planet? How can we truly feel a sense of belonging here? How can we be better kin?Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer join Reseed for a conversation about kinship. Along with Robin Wall Kimmerer, they co-edited Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, a beautiful collection of five books that looks at the ways we can deepen our care and respect for the family of plants, rivers, mountains, animals, and others who live with us in...2022-02-1447 min

ReseedRegenerative Textile Economies - Rebecca BurgessImagine if our clothing was grown, designed, dyed, created, worn, passed on, and eventually composted in our own region, similar to farm-to-table food? This is the idea behind a fibershed, a regenerative, restorative, and resilient fashion system in one bioregion. In a fibershed, the way we make our clothing is carbon beneficial, regenerates soil, is healthy for our bodies, and restores livelihoods to rural communities.Rebecca Burgess is an indigo farmer, weaver, dyer, and community organizer who spent a year wearing clothing that was grown, designed, dyed, and created in her bioregion. That experience helped...2022-01-3145 min

ReseedDecolonizing Fashion, Reclaiming Culture - Aditi MayerFashion is a connector of land, labour, culture, and personal expression. Through a decades-long project of fast fashion, we have forgotten and become disconnected from regional, regenerative fashion systems that can exist. There have been beneficial fashion systems embraced by many cultures throughout history and today, where clothing is an expression of place. Natural dyes come from the landscape, dressing the wearer in the colours from their home. Natural textiles connect regenerative farmers with makers, and give back to the soil both in their farming at the beginning of their life, and decomposition at the end of their life...2022-01-3150 min

ReseedReflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather StationMusic can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed album Ignorance about climate grief struck a chord with citizens and critics. Performing as The Weather Station, Lindeman’s 2021 poetic, thoughtful, and highly danceable album was named album of the year by The New Yorker and Uncut. Tamara joins Alice Irene Whittaker, the host of Reseed, for a conversation that starts with climate grief before spanning to art, selfhood, rootlessness, connection, and the heartbreaking beauty of birds. Tamara Lindeman emerged from Toronto’s vibrant folk scene, and as The Weather Station...2022-01-1748 min

ReseedReclaiming Land Back - Bryanna BrownOriginator of Land Back and Labrador Land Protector Bryanna Brown joins Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker to explore reinforcing Indigenous leadership in the climate movement. This conversation examines how Indigenous climate leadership is inherently interconnected to the Land Back movement, and Indigenous sovereignty. Bryanna and Alice Irene explore reconnecting with our own voices while also amplifying the voices of others. Bryanna Brown is Inuk and Mi’kmaq from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. She is a Labrador Land Protector. She originated Land Back to advocate for sovereignty in Indigenous peoples, as well as Black, Indigenous, and Peo...2022-01-0338 min

ReseedBeautiful Forms of Resistance - Erica Violet LeeHow do we find freedom from the relentless demands of capitalism? How do we cultivate rest as a radical act of resistance and revolution? How do we learn from, centre, and support Indigenous sovereignty? How do we learn from Black organizing and resistance, and see Indigenous and Black liberation as coexisting side-by-side? How do we avoid the co-opting of grassroots movements, and stay clear headed about who we are in solidarity with?Poet, scholar, and community organizer Erica Violet Lee joins Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker for a powerful conversation about freedom, resistance, and belonging...2022-01-0347 min

ReseedRe-cycling Kids Clothes to Reduce Overconsumption - Jad RobitailleThis is a story of children’s clothing, textiles, time passing, and the valiant confrontation of overconsumption. While it would be easier to buy cheap and new - and for those cute disposable clothes to end up in relentlessly growing landfills that our planet cannot sustain - there is a quiet, under-recognized network of women who care for and re-cycle children’s clothes. They lovingly organize, clean, fold, box, label, and share children’s clothes with their sisters and friends at the vulnerable time of new motherhood, while asking big questions about consumption and systems. This is a story of cir...2021-12-2041 min

ReseedRescuing Imperfect Produce to Reduce Food Waste - David CôtéDelicious, usable foods are being thrown out every day, with food waste soaring at the same time that people go hungry. Our preference for pretty produce contributes to that food waste - but instead of going to the garbage, imperfect fruits and vegetables can be transformed into new foods, cutting down on food waste while nourishing people. With the work and love that goes into growing, nurturing, and harvesting food, it is important that we recognize and hold its value.Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker discusses food rescue with David Côté, the co-founder of LOOP Mission. LO...2021-12-2033 min

ReseedRemaking Fashion: Fossil-Free and Feminist - Sophia YangHow do we remake fashion so that it is regenerative, fossil-free, inclusive, and equitable? Fashion and textiles are where climate change, waste, labour rights, and social justice all come together. Every single one of us interacts with clothing in our everyday lives, and fashion is currently one of Earth’s most polluting industries. We have an opportunity to remake our fashion system, so that it becomes the fertile ground for thriving local economies, creative expression, and circular loops that keep us in balance within nature’s boundaries. Sophia Yang, Founder and Executive Director of Threading Change...2021-12-0349 min

ReseedRevealing Luxury Brands' Dirty Waste Secrets - Anna SacksMeet the woman who digs through and documents Manhattan’s waste, to divert from landfill, raise consciousness, and create systemic change. Anna Sacks, aka the Trash Walker, creates viral TikTok and Instagram videos that shed light on the brand new merchandise that luxury brands deliberately destroy, as part of their continued efforts to fuel the relentless pace of a fashion system that is wasteful, unjust, and unsustainable.Anna focuses on more than just fashion or brand waste, too - she rifles through city garbage to salvage good, quality stuff that ends up in the garbage. She has fo...2021-12-0342 min

ReseedRedefining Environmentalism - Chúk OdenigboHow do we redefine environmentalism so that it includes everyone? How do we embed justice and belonging into our relationship to the natural world? How can we include cities and modernity in our definitions of nature? What is the role of our ancestors in environmentalism and activism?These questions are explored in a conversation between Chúk Odenigbo, a Founding Director of Future Ancestors, and Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker. Chúk is an expert in climate justice, oceans, anti-racism, public health, and decolonization. This beautiful conversation about big ideas and complex intersections delves into usi...2021-12-0349 min

ReseedRedefining EnvironmentalismHow do we redefine environmentalism so that it includes everyone? How do we embed justice and belonging into our relationship to the natural world? How can we include cities and modernity in our definitions of nature? What is the role of our ancestors in environmentalism and activism?These questions are explored in a conversation between Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker and Chúk Odenigbo, a Founding Director of Future Ancestors. Chúk is an expert in climate justice, oceans, anti-racism, public health, and decolonization. This beautiful conversation about big ideas and complex intersections delves into usi...2021-12-0349 min

ReseedRemaking Fashion: Fossil-Free and FeministHow do we remake fashion so that it is regenerative, fossil-free, inclusive, and equitable? Fashion and textiles are where climate change, waste, labour rights, and social justice all come together. Every single one of us interacts with clothing in our everyday lives, and fashion is currently one of Earth’s most polluting industries. We have an opportunity to remake our fashion system, so that it becomes the fertile ground for thriving local economies, creative expression, and circular loops that keep us in balance within nature’s boundaries. Sophia Yang, Founder and Executive Director of Threading Change...2021-11-2549 min

ReseedReseed TrailerReseed is about repairing our relationship to nature. It is the guide in a journey from taking - to caretaking. The podcast explores stories of uprooting extractive systems and rooting the future in community and care.Reseed offers in-depth, thoughtful conversations with citizens of the RE generation: people embracing redesign, reduction, repair, reuse, rewilding, resistance, and regeneration. Guests are farmers, builders, designers, artists, makers, writers, repair café leaders, and activists. Conversations explore how they meet the grief, fear, and despair of our moment with heartfelt, handmade solutions that are growing a world rooted in car...2021-11-2202 min

Smart Prosperity: The PodcastFeb 3: Green tech that will define the 2020s & The business of plastic waste1. What green technologies will break out in the new decade? [min 1:24]What’s going to be the next Tesla? The next solar panel? Canada’s biggest green technology investor tells us what’s coming down the innovation pipeline that will solve environmental problems while creating big business opportunities. Leah Lawrence – President & CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada2. Can the world’s biggest food and beverage company phase out plastic pollution? [min 11:17]Over the past 60 years, plastics have transformed our economy. But the pollution that comes out the other end is piling u...2021-02-0324 min

Smart Prosperity: The PodcastJan 20: How Joe Biden will deliver on climate change1. What to expect from the Biden climate agenda in the first yearCan Joe Biden live up to his climate plan? We mark the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States with a panel of three US policy insiders, who forecast how the “most ambitious climate agenda ever” will make ground in the first year.Ana Unruh-Cohen, US House Select Committee on the Climate CrisisTim Profeta, Duke University Joe Kruger, Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown University 2. “5 (Other) Things Happening in the Green Economy This Week”Alice Irene Whitt...2021-01-2023 min