From 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. Scientist and professor 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 international climate reports, and rewilding a beautiful planet.

How do we balance joy with sorrow in the midst of ongoing crises? This conversation with Danielle Daniel, bestselling author of Forever Birchwood and Daughters of the Deer, 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.

We live as part of a wondrous planet, an intricate web of interconnections and relationships. Systems thinking helps us to see interconnections and complexities, and learn from systems like a body, ecosystem, or planet. Multisolving helps us solve complex problems by taking actions that result in many interconnected benefits. This conversation looks at both systems thinking and multisolving - starting with a decades-long experience of cultivating an intentional community. Guest Dr. Elizabeth Sawin brings decades of experience as a systems thinker who leans into complexity to help small seeds grow into big changes.

There is a 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 have relationships with these objects at the end of their useful life. This episode talks about witnessing what happens to the mammoth waste that we create and discard, and delves into the lost arts of repair, reuse, and restoration that people are reclaiming in the burgeoning circular economy.

Growing 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 founded by Cheyenne Sundance, abundant ecological city farms have already taken root.

What does wildness mean to us - and what can it mean when it is defined not by a few people, but rewritten for all of us? Guest J. Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, wildlife ecologist, poet, professor, author, and lover of birds. This conversation looks at how a new conservation can be inclusive for all people, and how care for humans, nature, and animals like birds are connected.

How do we courageously face our eco anxiety and grief, and cultivate the emotional resilience that we need to weather ecological crises? Britt Wray - science communicator, researcher, and author of Generation Dread - talks about climate change, mental health, and channeling our climate emotions so we become good stewards of the Earth.

Consuming stuff is embedded into our identities, culture, and definitions of self-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. Aja Barber joins Reseed for a fascinating and frank conversation about the journey to consuming less, intersections between fashion, justice, and climate, wildest dreams for remaking the fashion ecosystem, and how to balance individual and collective action to reclaim our power.

On the crest of spring, this thought-provoking episode with Kamea Chayne of the Green Dreamer Podcast and UPROOTED seeds expansive ideas and abundant dreams: communicating environmental storytelling, rethinking climate activism, reorienting growth, climate reparations, resisting the co-opting of progressive movements, reclaiming green for the people, and repairing place-based relationships.

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. Elizabeth Bechard - a climate activist, mother, and author of Parenting in a Changing Climate - joins Reseed for a conversation for all of us who are contemplating what role we want to play as stewards and ancestors at this moment of reckoning. This is a deeply spiritual conversation about how the Earth is rising up and speaking through us in our actions, in mysterious and wondrous ways.

Mending reduces waste, subverts throwaway culture, and allows people to slow down and repair clothing with their own hands. Mending is a small act of resistance to a culture that celebrates overabundance and digital distraction, and helps to restore our mental health. Arounna Khounnoraj - fibre artist, author, and creator of bookhou - discusses reclaiming the joy of simple and slow creativity in complex times.

Isaias Hernandez, aka Queer Brown Vegan, joins Reseed to delve into complexities and nuances of veganism, going beyond easy answers to explore intersections of animal rights, social justice, cultural respect, and environmental care.

How 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, who along with Robin Wall Kimmerer co-edited Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, join Reseed for a conversation about kinship.

Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on rebuilding regenerative textile communities that are carbon beneficial and regenerate soil, while restoring livelihoods to rural communities.

Aditi Mayer joins Reseed to help reimagine the fashion system to be rooted in justice and environmental care, while advocating for the reclamation of culture.

Music can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station discusses her acclaimed 2021 album Ignorance about climate grief which struck a chord with citizens and critics alike. Tamara joins Reseed for a conversation that spans selfhood, rootlessness, connection, the heartbreaking beauty of birds - and the role of artists is helping us process, feel, grieve, and reimagine.

Originator of Land Back and Labrador Land Protector Bryanna Brown joins Reseed to explore reinforcing Indigenous leadership in the climate movement. This conversation also looks at reclaiming our own voices while amplifying the voices of others.

Poet, scholar, and community organizer Erica Violet Lee joins Reseed for a powerful conversation about freedom, resistance, sovereignty, and belonging. This is a conversation about feeling the rage and love of this moment at which we are alive - and remembering that our rage is a form of love.

This is a story of children’s clothing, textiles, time passing, and the valiant confrontation of overconsumption. Mini-Cycle Founder and Owner Jad Robitaille talks about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and zero waste fashion for kids.

David Côté, the cofounder of LOOP Missions, delves into food waste, the circular economy, how to make food systems more equitable, the commodification of food, and what our relationship to food tells us about our society.