Episode 36 - Turn Towards Each Other: A Collective Climate Justice Movement
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 individualistic, lonely, consumerism-heavy environmentalism of the past, 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. You might have seen her on the cover of Vogue, on international panels, or in Instagram posts with inspiring activist friends like Mya-Rose Craig, Greta Thunberg, Daphne Frias, and Dominique Palmer. Tori’s recent debut book, It’s Not Just You, explores climate change and mental health from a climate justice perspective.
This conversation provides wise reflections on successful movement building and sustaining, and shows how recent wins have been accomplished by collective-minded organizing that is required for these dark times.
Episode 34 - Revealing Why Women Grow Gardens
Why do we grow in our gardens? Are we searching for closeness to the mystery and magic of the natural world, or working to feed ourselves? Do we grow to create habitat for pollinators or enrich precious soil? Do we grow to foster community, or 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 is a writer, broadcaster, career-journalist, and multi-platform storyteller, and her book Rootbound: Rewilding a Life was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Beyond the page, Alice is the host of the Why Women Grow podcast, which unearths stories of the land with inspiring women.
This beautiful and rich conversation roots into our relationships with nature and gardening in cities. We discuss perfectionism, being drawn to the soil, and motherhood. We refurl stories of women in their gardens, and pay homage to the gardens who raised us.
Episode 31 - Reawakening into Something Better
In these dark winter days at the beginning of a new unknown year, this reflective episode invites us to be quietly awake: to our true selves, our relationships, our responsibilities. How can we be awake to beauty as well as the darkness of the world? 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 an acclaimed published Indigenous, anti-racism, and climate justice researcher, policy advisor and speaker. Larissa Crawford proudly passes on Métis and Jamaican ancestry to her daughter, Zyra. Larissa is the Founder of Future Ancestors Services, a youth-led professional services social enterprise that operates at the intersection of climate and racial justice.
Climate justice, reconciliation, motherhood, and a groundswell of activism are explored in this conversation. We discuss the direct connection between anger and joy - and how that anger can fuel meaningful environmental action that is rooted in justice.
Episode 26 - Reclaiming Food Sovereignty, Remembering Women Farmers
Food justice is interwoven with conversations about our women ancestors and motherhood in this episode of Reseed.
Guest Leticia Ama Deawuo has been a leading activist for food sovereignty and food justice for the past 15 years. She is the Executive Director of SeedChange, as well as a filmmaker, currently working on a film on Women Indigenous Farmers in Africa.
Ama sheds light on food sovereignty, a grassroots worldwide movement to reclaim food systems, with a particular focus on farmers’ rights. Could anything be more prescient to our precarious moment when workers are rising up and the Earth cries for our radical care?
Episode 25 - Rejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures
Fossil fuel narratives seep into our culture, media, politics, and minds, and it can be hard 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.
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 hopeful climate narratives.
We can find the veins and rivulets of care that already exist in the growing climate movement, and together rewrite the future.
Episode 21 - A Web of Relationships
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.
Episode 17 - Generation Dread’s Search for Emotional Resilience
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.
Episode 9 - Reclaiming Culture, Decolonizing Fashion
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.
Episode 7 - Reclaiming Land Back
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.
Episode 2 - Remaking Fashion: Fossil-Free and Feminist
How do we remake fashion so that it is regenerative, fossil-free, inclusive, and equitable?
Sophia Yang, Founder and Executive Director of Threading Change, joins Reseed for a conversation about fashion, justice, gender, circular economy, and climate - and how they all weave together.
Episode 1 - Redefining Environmentalism
How do we redefine environmentalism so that it includes everyone? Chúk Odenigbo, a Founding Director of Future Ancestors, and Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker discuss how to use our power and influence to dismantle oppressive systems, while planting seeds that grow a vibrant, fair way of life.