Best Alice Irene Whittaker Podcasts (2024)

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Reconnecting with Soil - Antonious Petro 44:37

1M ago44:37

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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 streng…

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Our Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní Dochartaigh 55:41

2M ago55:41

55:41

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. Ker…

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Birds, Imagination, and the Tyranny of Clocks 59:12

3M ago59:12

59:12

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 ener…

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Reconnecting with Land and Community through Slow Fashion 46:47

4M ago46:47

46:47

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…

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The Pursuit of Old Growth Giants - Amanda Lewis 56:29

5M ago56:29

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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 also sheds light on the harms of a checklist approach to life where we search for the biggest and best acq…

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Turn Towards Each Other: A Collective Climate Justice Movement - Tori Tsui 52:28

6M ago52:28

52:28

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 individualistic, lonely, consumerism-heavy environmentalism that claimed centre stage in the past - telling us we are gu…

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Witnessing the Lives and Deaths of Animals Among Us - Amanda Stronza 58:03

7M ago58:03

58:03

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 animals great violence and harm, many of us are deeply affected, even heartbroken, and many of us privately …

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Season 3 Trailer 3:35

7M ago3:35

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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 of Reseed, host Alice Irene Whittaker sits down with an animal rehabilitator, a conservation biologist, a birder an…

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Revealing Why Women Grow Gardens - Alice Vincent 57:24

1y ago57:24

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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? Do we grow to foster a knowledge of growing in our children, and to foster community? Do we grow to grasp…

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On Location in Colorado: Regenerative Ranch, Regenerative Economy - Hunter Lovins 1:04:59

1y ago1:04:59

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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 kitchen table in her regenerative ranch, Hunter answers curiosities about a circular economy that is modelled …

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Local Food Reinvented with Tech - Eddy Badrina 47:34

1+ y ago47:34

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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 requires all of us. People will find their niches. For Eddy Badrina, that niche is the intersection of economics, technol…

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Reawakening into Something Better - Larissa Crawford 54:03

1+ y ago54:03

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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 to justice. How can we be awake to beauty as well as the darkness of the world and the fragility of ecosy…

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Relocalizing Our Food Future - Barbara Swartzentruber 52:06

1+ y ago52:06

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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 looks at our isolation from the Earth and food that nourishes us, and wonders about repairing our relationship with …

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Media, Stories, and Culture Reclaimed - Sara Lopez 58:50

1+ y ago58:50

58:50

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 underutilized solutions we have for rising to meet environmental crises. Every movement, every momentous and terri…

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Remembering We are Stewards - Tao Orion 55:08

1+ y ago55:08

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Looking 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…

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Rewilding the Ocean - Charles Clover 51:32

1+ y ago51:32

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The 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…

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Reclaiming Food Sovereignty, Remembering Women Farmers - Leticia Ama Deawuo 50:46

1+ y ago50:46

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Food 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 t…

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Rejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures - Grace Nosek 56:40

1+ y ago56:40

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Fossil 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 riv…

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Season 2 Trailer 2:43

1+ y ago2:43

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Oceans, 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 thes…

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Reigniting Creativity for a Caring World - Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer 1:06:23

2y ago1:06:23

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We 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 pain…

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Rewilding Science and Stories - Kai Chan 59:15

2y ago59:15

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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. Guest Kai Chan and host Alice Irene Whittaker discuss our responsibilities on Earth, heroic action, the valu…

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Rewriting Joy Amidst Crisis - Danielle Daniel 44:20

2y ago44:20

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How 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 ou…

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A Web of Relationships - Dr. Elizabeth Sawin 57:34

2y ago57:34

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We 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 t…

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Witnessing Waste, Restoring Scrap - Stacey Tenenbaum 47:22

2y ago47:22

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There 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 liv…

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Rerooting Farms in the City - Cheyenne Sundance 51:08

2y ago51:08

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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 communit…

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Rewriting Wildness - J. Drew Lanham 1:02:50

2y ago1:02:50

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What 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 cre…

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Generation Dread’s Search for Emotional Resilience - Britt Wray 1:03:50

2y ago1:03:50

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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 health, so we can take care of each other and our Earth? Britt Wray joins Reseed for a conversation about…

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Resisting Consumerism, Reclaiming Power - Aja Barber 55:51

2y ago55:51

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The 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 o…

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Seeding Regenerative Ideas and Dreams - Kamea Chayne 54:55

2y ago54:55

54:55

Expansive 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-provokin…

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Remaking Parenthood for the Anthropocene - Elizabeth Bechard 1:10:42

2y ago1:10:42

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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 ta…

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Rediscovering the Lost Art of Mending - Arounna Khounnoraj 52:02

2y ago52:02

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In 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 widel…

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Reorienting Veganism Towards Liberation - Isaias Hernandez 55:58

2y ago55:58

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Our 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 t…

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Rekindling Kinship with Nature - John Hausdoerffer and Gavin Van Horn 47:21

2y ago47:21

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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 join Reseed for a conversation about kinship. Along with Robin Wall Kimmerer, they co-edited Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, a beautif…

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Regenerative Textile Economies - Rebecca Burgess 45:14

2y ago45:14

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Imagine 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, …

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Decolonizing Fashion, Reclaiming Culture - Aditi Mayer 50:03

2y ago50:03

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Fashion 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 expres…

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Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station 48:21

2+ y ago48:21

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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 I…

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Reclaiming Land Back - Bryanna Brown 38:28

2+ y ago38:28

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Originator 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 explo…

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Beautiful Forms of Resistance - Erica Violet Lee 47:06

2+ y ago47:06

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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-o…

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Re-cycling Kids Clothes to Reduce Overconsumption - Jad Robitaille 41:39

2+ y ago41:39

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This 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-c…

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Rescuing Imperfect Produce to Reduce Food Waste - David Côté 33:31

2+ y ago33:31

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Delicious, 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 th…

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Redefining Environmentalism - Chúk Odenigbo 49:28

2+ y ago49:28

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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 definitions of nature? What is the role of our ancestors in environmentalism and activism? These questions are explored in a conversation between Chúk Oden…

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Remaking Fashion: Fossil-Free and Feminist - Sophia Yang 49:08

2+ y ago49:08

49:08

How 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 opp…

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Revealing Luxury Brands' Dirty Waste Secrets - Anna Sacks 42:25

2+ y ago42:25

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Meet 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 re…

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Reseed Trailer 2:28

2+ y ago2:28

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Reseed 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, …

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