Small Planet Heroes

Trailer: Season 2

A sneak peak from Dr. Kai Chan and occasional co-host Clare Price.

David Suzuki: David's Community Party

An Invitation from David Suzuki to Connect, Commit, Compete, and Correct Our Way to Sustainability Within and Beyond Our Generation David Suzuki has spent a lifetime tra

Bob Watson: The Risks of Doing Nothing

Bob Watson Discusses Large-Scale Systems Transformation, His Life in Science Assessment, and the Need for Trust in an Anti-Science Era Global science assessment goes far

Terre Satterfield: Culture is a Co-Production

Terre Satterfield Explores Queasy Questions, the Quest for Environmental Justice, and the Narrative Imperative in Ecosystems Services Research Queasy questions shake us.

David Boyd: Nature’s Rights are Human Fights

David R. Boyd on Levering Transformative Change for a Healthy Environment from a Global Legal Perspective In the coastal Wild West, when laws and justice do not align,

Ingrid Waldron: Our Bodies, Our Land, Our Laws

Ingrid Waldron’s Road to Racial and Environmental Justice Through Community, Law, and Collective Action Growing up in Montreal, young Ingrid Waldron never imagined draft

Eli Enns: We are All Treaty People

Eli Enns On Indigenous Conservation and Bringing Balance Back Conservationist Eli Enns’ voice exudes warmth, irony, and a nuanced historical awareness of what it is to

Teika Newton: No Place Is Isolated, No One a Stranger

From a relatively isolated, “tech-less” childhood in small-town Ontario to the unglamorous frontlines of community-based environmental organizing, Teika Newton shows us t

Suzanne Simard: Speaking for the Trees, Calling for Change

Suzanne Simard revolutionized how we understand forests with her discovery of the “wood wide web,” the vast underground network that allows trees to communicate and coope

Alex Morton: Walk Beside Me, Not Behind Me

Alex Morton on Impossible Resilience, the Call to Kindness, and Building Activist Legacies for The Big Team Alexandra (Alex) Morton has been called a mix of Jane Goodall

What Even is a Small Planet Hero?

What does it mean to be a Small Planet Hero? In this pilot, co-hosts Kai Chan (professor and Canada Research Chair at UBC) and Clare Price (UBC graduate student in sounds

Community, Growing up, and Refugee Status with Muhaddisa Sarwari

Climate change is poised to worsen the refugee crisis badly as people flee floods and fires, as life becomes untenable in places with prolonged droughts, and rising seas

The Art of Listening with Johnny Trinh

The path to sustainable futures is one that overcomes polarization, not just about the climate crisis and solutions to it, but all manner of things. We can’t change syste

Hero Culture, Overworking, and Materialism with Derek Strokon

Self-sacrifice: We tend to celebrate it. But when celebrating self-sacrifice becomes a culture of overworking for the sake of one’s employer and one’s own career, as if t

Tradition, Co-generational Living, and Unconditional Love with Dr. Tanya Gee

In today’s economy, people are being guided to move back home or take on roommates to make housing affordable. This may seem strange and unwelcome after decades of it bei

Pilot: Social Signaling, Defending Ants, and Introducing Kai!

On today’s episode, we’ll be speaking to Kai Chan, our future host and an interdisciplinary professor and Canada Research Chair at UBC. He is a sustainability scientist w

Gender and Sexuality, Jein, and Productive Dialogues with Kai Scott

Our vision of a sustainable future embraces a diversity of people as equals, whether they’re unlike us in their gender, sexuality, or in their understanding of these topi