Reseed
Thoughtful conversations about repairing our relationship with nature. The guests of Reseed are the RE generation: people who are embracing redesign, reduction, repair, reuse, and regeneration, and cultivating a world rooted in care, justice, and well-being. Join farmers, builders, designers, artists, and makers to delve into our collective journey from takers - to caretakers.
Episodes
55 episodes
Learning to be Lionhearted - Leah Thomas
Watershed 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 characte...
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Episode 44
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40:41
[Replay] Rewriting Wildness - J. Drew Lanham
What 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 di...
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1:03:32
[Replay] Seeding Regenerative Ideas and Dreams - Kamea Chayne
Times 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 grow...
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55:36
[Replay] Resisting Consumerism, Reclaiming Power
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 dismant...
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56:32
[Replay] The Search for Emotional Resilience amidst Climate Change - Britt Wray
How 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...
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1:04:32
[Replay] Remaking Parenthood for the Anthropocene - Elizabeth Bechard
Parents 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 ro...
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1:11:22
[Replay] Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station
Music 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, t...
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49:03
[Replay] Beautiful Forms of Resistance - Erica Violet Lee
How 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 an...
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47:43
[Replay] Redefining Environmentalism - Chúk Odenigbo
How 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 anc...
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50:08
Wayfinding Alternative Economic Models
Economic 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...
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Episode 43
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38:57
The Hummingbird Who Lost His Way
A 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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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40:26
Reconnecting with Soil - Antonious Petro
Each 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 mee...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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44:37
Our Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní Dochartaigh
We 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 th...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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55:41
Birds, Imagination, and the Tyranny of Clocks
We 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. T...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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59:12
Reconnecting with Land and Community through Slow Fashion
In 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 wit...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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46:47
The Pursuit of Old Growth Giants - Amanda Lewis
A 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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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56:29
Turn Towards Each Other: A Collective Climate Justice Movement - Tori Tsui
Collective 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 individualisti...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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52:28
Witnessing the Lives and Deaths of Animals Among Us - Amanda Stronza
Our 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 an...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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58:03
Season 3 Trailer
The 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 o...
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3:35
Revealing Why Women Grow Gardens - Alice Vincent
Why 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?...
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Episode 34
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57:24
On Location in Colorado: Regenerative Ranch, Regenerative Economy - Hunter Lovins
This 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 kitc...
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Episode 33
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1:04:59
Local Food Reinvented with Tech - Eddy Badrina
How 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...
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Episode 32
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47:34
Reawakening into Something Better - Larissa Crawford
In 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...
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Episode 31
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54:03
Relocalizing Our Food Future - Barbara Swartzentruber
Imagine 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 loo...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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52:06
Media, Stories, and Culture Reclaimed - Sara Lopez
Communicating 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 underuti...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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58:50