Reseed

Dec 03 2024 50 ep. 49 mins 12

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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.

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[Replay] Remaking Parenthood for the Anthropocene - Elizabeth Bechard

Dec 03 2024 71 mins

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 role that parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and other guardians can play, with specific actions that we can take as people who are raising child

[Replay] Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Nov 26 2024 49 mins

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, 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 Re

[Replay] Beautiful Forms of Resistance - Erica Violet Lee

Nov 20 2024 47 mins

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 and resistance, and see Indigenous and Black liberation as coexisting side-by-side? How do we avoid the co-opting of grassroots movements, and

[Replay] Redefining Environmentalism - Chúk Odenigbo

Nov 12 2024 50 mins

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 ancestors in environmentalism and activism?These questions are explored in a conversation between Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker and Chúk O

Wayfinding Alternative Economic Models

Nov 05 2024 38 mins

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 circular economy to the well-being economy to the regenerative economy to degrowth.Don't worry if economics is not your thing. This really

The Hummingbird Who Lost His Way

May 07 2024 40 mins

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 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

Reconnecting with Soil - Antonious Petro

Mar 12 2024 44 mins

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 meet biodiversity loss and climate change. We can grow soil, and sequester carbon, feed ourselves, and strengthen local communities and economi

Our Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Feb 16 2024 55 mins

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 these times of ours, writing through emergency, a ceasefire in Palestine, and the power of togetherness. Kerri ní Dochartaigh is an Irish mot

Birds, Imagination, and the Tyranny of Clocks

Jan 30 2024 59 mins

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. 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 opp

Reconnecting with Land and Community through Slow Fashion

Dec 22 2023 46 mins

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 with land and improve our relationship with the environment through natural dye and slow fashion. These practices allow us to express creativity and connect